And piano makes five

Posted on March 7, 2014 by alisonsax

Hot on the heels of my recent review of Dave Camwell’s Timescape comes this week’s offering – a review of a CD of Piano Quintets by Rubinstein and Rimsky-Korsakov on the Brana label, featuring the late Polish-Brazilian pianist Felicja Blumental and members of the New Philharmonia Wind Ensemble. Both works were completely new to me, and both were scored for the unconventional piano quintet forces of piano, flute, clarinet, bassoon and French horn rather than piano plus string quartet. It was a pleasant discovery, and if you’re interested you can read what I had to say about Piano Quintets by Rubinstein and Rimsky-Korsakov in the 2014 Reviews section of this blog site.

I must say I’ve really enjoyed my return to music reviewing after a six month ‘sabbatical’, listening to new sounds with an analytical ear and trying to find the right words to convey the wonder that is music. While I continue to enjoy writing website copy and regular news items for Andy Scott, the last ‘writing’ I did in my teaching job was some lyrics to Soul Bossa Nova based on various dinosaurs! After today it will be back to saxophone recordings for the next few reviews, so for any saxophonists and saxophiles out there, please watch this space…

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