Musikalischer Salon: Rasante Brillanz

In his two-movement Quintetti piccoli, Luigi Boccherini briefly presents the spectrum of his skills: symphonically developed string parts fully integrated into the action with simultaneous emphasis on the virtuoso flute. The flute also plays the primus inter pares in Ferdinand Ries' music: lively and dance-like, it sometimes recalls the early string trios of his teacher Ludwig van Beethoven.

Finally, the young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart also makes full use of all its advantages and gives us dynamic shadings as well as sparkling fluency and radiant cantilenas. Ernest Bloch, once a violin virtuoso, devoted himself once again to all facets of the string sound at the end of his life: before the solo suite for viola, his last work, he composed three cello suites for Zara Nelsova and two violin suites for his friend Yehudi Menuhin.

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