[ Sony / RCA Red Seal / 10 CD Box Set ]
Release Date: Saturday 26 August 2023
Sony Classical are pleased to present a stunning new 10 CD boxset - the complete RCA Victor Recordings of The Boston Symphony Chamber Players, presented for the first time on CD.
It was inevitable that the Boston Symphony - hailed as "The Aristocrat of Orchestras" in the early '60s by RCA Victor, its long-time record company - would spin off an ensemble from its elite roster of principals. The Boston Symphony Chamber Players were duly launched in 1964 during the Austrian conductor Erich Leinsdorf's music directorship. Starting that October, RCA Victor recorded them regularly in Symphony Hall until the orchestra changed labels at the end of the decade. By then, ten LPs of chamber music had been issued in four critically acclaimed releases. Sony Classical is now pleased to present all these recordings for the first time on CD.
Mozart: Flute Quartet No. 1 in D major, K285
Mozart: Oboe Quartet in F major, K370
Mozart: Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, K478
Mozart: Quintet for Piano and Winds in E flat, K452
Brahms: Piano Quartet No. 3 in C minor, Op. 60
Brahms: Horn Trio in E flat major, Op. 40
Brahms: Piano Trio No. 1 in B major, Op. 8
Beethoven: Serenade in D major for Flute, Violin and Viola, Op. 25
Fine, I G: Fantasia for String Trio
Copland: Vitebsk - study on a Jewish theme for violin, cello & piano
Carter, E: Oboe Quartet
Piston: Divertimento
Schubert: String Trio in B flat major, D471
Schubert: Piano Quintet in A major, D667 'The Trout'
Schubert: Piano Trio No. 1 in B flat major, D898
Poulenc: Trio for piano, oboe and bassoon
Poulenc: Sextet for piano and wind quintet, Op. 100
Haieff: Bagatelles (3) for Oboe and Bassoon
Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras No. 6 for flute and bassoon
Colgrass: Variations
Webern: Concerto for Nine Instruments Op. 24
Martinů: Nonet for wind quintet, violin, viola, cello & double bass, H. 374
Dahl, I: Duet Concertino for Flute & Percussion
Milhaud: Pastorale, Op. 147
Hindemith: Kleine Kammermusik for wind quintet, Op. 24 No. 2
Spohr: Nonet in F major, Op. 31
Barber: Summer Music, Op. 31