Piano Quintet: II. Ruhig und heiter
From WALTER, B.: Violin Sonata / Piano Quintet (2016)
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Walter: Piano Quintet: II. Ruhig und heiter
In the early part of his musical career, before he became one of the most revered conductors of his time, Bruno Walter saw himself as a conductor-composer much like his friend and rôle model, Gustav Mahler. His large-scale Piano Quintet, couched in the late-Romantic idiom, is a powerful expression of Walter’s consummate compositional skill. The Violin Sonata in A major, Walter’s last chamber work, offers a study in expressive contrasts, its unsettled moods reflective of the time in which it was written.
