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The Music => Recordings & Broadcasts => Topic started by: eschiss1 on Monday 17 August 2026, 02:25

Title: Enescu: octet and early piano quintet on Chandos, upcoming next month
Post by: eschiss1 on Monday 17 August 2026, 02:25
Coming September 11 2026 on Chandos, a recording of the (yes, much recorded, and fantastic) string octet (1900-1) of Enescu, together with his piano quintet in D major of 1896 (not the later A minor quintet). (Source: the Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/p/DblpO2XJrUc/?igsh=OW03MjR6cTQ0ZGgw) maintained by the performers, the "Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective".)

(I hesitate to call the piano quintet in D "early" when the octet came out only a few years later... though admittedly it's the difference between age 16-odd and age 20. 1900-1 produced some of his most famous works (the Romanian Rhapsodies, e.g.) for example, after all...)