[6/24/2011] Preview: Beethoven and Schubert try to play it simple(r) (continued)

This inexpensive EMI "twofer" set includes the Melos Ensemble recordings of the Beethoven Septet and the Schubert Octet we've been hearing plus the great Mendelssohn Octet for Strings and Beethoven's Octet for Winds, Op. 103.

Both the Beethoven Septet and the Schubert Octet have rhythmically compelling versions of both a minuet and a scherzo, and in both cases they bracket a theme-and-variations Andante -- Schubert did, however, flipflop his minuet and scherzo. Tonight we're going to hear the minuets and scherzos, and tomorrow night the Andantes.


BEETHOVEN: Septet for Winds and Strings in E-flat, Op. 20:

iii. Tempo di menuetto

v. Scherzo: Allgegro molto e scherzo

Melos Ensemble: Gervase de Peyer, clarinet; Neill Sanders, horn; William Waterhouse, bassoon; Emanuel Hurwitz, violin; Cecil Aronowitz, viola; Terence Weil, cello; Adrian Beers, double bass. EMI, recorded March and Oct. 1969


SCHUBERT: Octet for Winds and Strings in F, D. 803:

iii. Scherzo: Allegro vivace

v. Menuetto: Allegretto

Melos Ensemble: Gervase de Peyer, clarinet; Neill Sanders, horn; William Waterhouse, bassoon; Emanuel Hurwitz and Ivor McMahon, violins; Cecil Aronowitz, viola; Terence Weil, cello; Adrian Beers, double bass. EMI, recorded December 1967


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