Sextets Piano & Wind Quintet

DAVIES STUTTGARTER BLASERQUINTETT

Ludwig Thuille participated in “Ritter’s Round Table” with his friend Richard Strauss. For the young composer still in search of his musical self, the encounter with Liszt’s ardent admirer and Wagner’s friend Alexander Ritter, in whose home these gatherings were held, must have been a revelation. Thuille enthusiastically incorporated the harmonic expansions of the New Germans into his compositions. On this rerelease of a long sold-out recording from 1987, the Stuttgart Wind Quintet and the pianist Dennis Russell Davies perform sextets by Thuille and Francis Poulenc. This rerelease is a model example illustrating the principles for which MDG has stood for forty years. Outstanding artists perform magnificent music often situated off the mainstream. The careful selection of just the right performance space, a piano excellently prepared for the occasion, and choice microphones form the basis for a freely resonating, natural sound picture. The greatest possible precision, with finishing touches judged by the trained ears of sound engineers, means that many recordings continue to be audiophile benchmarks even today.