Walter: Piano Quintet & Violin Sonata
) | Label: NAXOS Catalog: 8573351 Format: CD FROLOVA SATO VIDA PEHERSTORFER HAUSLE HUBER LE LIUIn 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 music like his friend and role 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 modds reflective of the time in which it was written.  Price: $19.98 |