Duoby Danier
Bruckner as a composer of chamber music may seem inconceivable… 更多 to those given to quick misjudgment. His String Quintet of 1879, his sole mature chamber work, shows that Bruckner was completely at ease and eloquent in the medium. Created between the Fifth and Sixth symphonies, the music seems to be striving for orchestral utterance in only a few spots (if that can even be considered a flaw). Otherwise, the composer completely integrated his characteristic vernacular into the chamber idiom in this concise and well-crafted work.
The main theme of the first movement is more lyrical and searching than a typical Bruckner opening, making the work a cousin to the Seventh Symphony in that regard.… 更多