Niels Viggo Bentzon: Wind Quintets
8.226127 (Dacapo Records, CD)
DDD
FIRST RELEASE (3 June 2022)
Playing time: 71'12"
Tracks: 22
Booklet pages: 16
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© 2022 Dacapo Records
Main country of recording: Denmark
Reviewer: Geoff Pearce
Review of Niels Viggo Bentzon: Wind Quintets published on 11 July 2022
Carl Nielsen Quintet
Niels Viggo Bentzon (1919-2000):
Variations for Wind Quintet, Op 21 (1943) (first recording)
1 Molto sostenuto
2 Variation I
3 Variation II
4 Variation III
5 Variation IV
6 Variation V
7 Variation VI
8 Variation VII
9 Variation VIII
10 Variation IX
11 Variation X
12 Moderato e sotto voce
Bop Quintet', Op 80 (1952) (first recording)
13 I
14 II
Wind Quintet No 3, Op 29 (1944) (first recording)
15 Allegro semplice
16 Scherzino
17 Introduzione - Finale
Wind Quintet No 4, Op 59 (1949) (first recording)
18 Moderato e semplice
Wind Quintet No 5, Op 116 (1958)
19 Molto moderato
20 Con moto
21 Sostenuto
22 Rondo - Allegro
Recorded at Højdevangskirkens Menighedshus, on 2-3, 10-11 and 18 April and 9 May 2021.
Prodigiously gifted Danish composer and pianist Niels Viggo Bentzon (1919-2000) wrote nearly 1,000 musical works in every known classical genre and style. He retained a constantly questing and exploratory nature throughout his life, as we can hear in his five known wind quintets recorded here by The Carl Nielsen Quintet: The results are captivating in their own way, stoked by Bentzon's distinctive, virtuosic language and great ingenuity.