Name: Mendelssohn Octet Op 20 i Allegro moderato, ma con fuoco by Borletti-Buitoni Trust
Duration: 13 min 57 s
Description: BBT Fellowship winners 2005 along with the Psophos Quartet to make this special studio recording of Mendelssohn's ever-popular Octet, first released on a BBC Music Magazine Covermount CD in 2006

BBT Fellowship winners 2005 along with the Psophos Quartet to make this special studio recording of Mendelssohn's ever-popular Octet, first released on a BBC Music Magazine Covermount CD in 2006

Mendelssohn Octet Op 20 i Allegro moderato, ma con fuoco

With the support of BBT, Naxos was on hand to record the second performance of BBT co-commission for Ralph van Raat, Gavin Bryars' subtle and mesmerising Piano Concerto, titled 'The Solway Canal', the name taken from the first of two poems by Edwin Morgan (the second being A Place of Many Waters) set for the male voices of Capella Amsterdam. Otto Tausk conducts the Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic.

Gavin Bryars Piano Concerto The Solway Canal (excerpt)

Mendelssohn Octet Op 20 i Allegro moderato, ma con fuoco

Borletti-Buitoni Trust

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