Glinka's Grand sextet

[Sean]

Would someone be kind enough to advise me of the scoring for this piece? Does it have a double bass and how many instruments does that make it? Is this the same work as the Grand Sesseto?

[Don]

Would someone be kind enough to advise me of the scoring for this piece? Does it have a double bass and how many instruments does that make it? Is this the same work as the Grand Sesseto?

It is the same work and is scored for piano, two violins, double bass, viola and cello.

[HARPER_JT]

This Sextet is indeed Grand - the composer uses the piano to augment the string quintet in a way that approaches symphonic proportions. Glinka acheives a measure of musical ingenuity, combined with attention to the "Classical" form that marks him as the first home-grown Russian composer to be seriously reckoned with.

[Gurn Blanston]

Ooh, I want it!

Any recs?



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Listening to:
Weiner Philharmoniker / Böhm - K 550 Symphony #40 in g  2nd mvmt - Andante

[Anne]

I want it too!

[Brian]

Evidently there are four recordings.

[Gurn Blanston]

Evidently there are four recordings.

Thanks, Brian. My natural inclination is to choose the Capricorn disk...



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Listening to:
Westphalian SO / Landau  Ricci - St Saëns Concerto #2 in c for Violin & Orchestra Op 58 3rd mvmt

[Sean]

Don, thanks, that's just what I wanted to know.

I bought the recording with the Rimsky-Korsakov quintet coupling years ago, and heard part of it from the radio this week, but don't think I recognized it. It's interesting music and certainly fills in the picture of chamber music from the period, but it's also in the long line of lightweight Russian invention.

[Sean]

Is that one more violin than the Trout quintet then? The db inclusion isn't so rare...?

[Don]

Is that one more violin than the Trout quintet then?

Yes.

[Sean]

Actually, I was getting my violins and cellos in a twist- the Trout is piano, two violins, viola and double bass, isn't it?! Ie no cello?

[quintett op.57]

Actually, I was getting my violins and cellos in a twist- the Trout is piano, two violins, viola and double bass, isn't it?! Ie no cello?

1 violin only