Music: String Quartet in E flat major, Op. 48, No. 3: IV. Allegro vivace
Composer: Anton Reicha
Artists: Kreutzer Quartet
Album: Anton Reicha: Complete String Quartets, Volume Two
Label: Toccata Classics TOCC 0040

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The Czech-born composer Anton Reicha (1770–1836) was an exact contemporary of Beethoven, and his close friend from their mid-teens. The music of each man demonstrates an awareness of what the other was doing: they showed each other their compositions-in-progress. But although Reicha was closely associated with one of the best-known names in western culture, his own music has been grievously neglected: only his woodwind quintets have achieved any currency. Of his vast cycle of almost forty string quartets just one had been recorded before – an omission this ambitious project intends to put right, thereby revealing one of the most inventive and engaging spirits in classical music.

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Anton Reicha: String Quartet in E flat major, Op. 48, No. 3: IV. Allegro vivace

Toccata Classics is a label dedicated to producing recordings of the huge amount of top-notch classical music that the concert halls and major record companies are ignoring.  We make a point of seeking out interesting composers from less familiar musical cultures and from all periods, in the Nordic and Baltic countries, in central and eastern Europe, Russia and further afield.

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