Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective - Reynaldo Hahn- Piano Quintet, Songs, Piano Quartet (2025) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

The Lebanese-American Karim Sulayman joins the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective for this album of works by Reynaldo Hahn. The founder members Tom Poster and Elena Urioste write: ‘Kaleidoscope has championed many unjustly neglected composers, but in the case of Reynaldo Hahn the neglect seems particularly puzzling to us. His music is immediately approachable, soaringly beautiful, and speaks directly to the heart; audiences, on the rare occasions that they get to hear it, seem to adore it. His life story is fascinating, too… The Piano Quintet had been on our programming wish list for some time: it was lauded as Hahn’s greatest work at its 1922 premiere, and the powerful intensity of its first two movements in particular acts as a firm rejoinder to those who criticised Hahn as a lightweight salon composer. By the time he finished his Piano Quartet, in 1946, Hahn was a man out of place in the world; this is music which bears no trace of modernism, instead looking back nostalgically to Hahn’s heyday in la belle epoque’.

TRACKLIST

01. Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective - Hahn: À Chloris (arranged for Tenor & String Quartet by Tom Poster)
02. Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective - Hahn: Quand je fus pris au pavillon (arranged for Tenor & String Quartet by Tom Poster)
03. Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective - Hahn: Piano Quintet in F-Sharp Minor: I. Molto agitato e con fuoco
04. Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective - Hahn: Piano Quintet in F-Sharp Minor: II. Andante (non troppo lento)
05. Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective - Hahn: Piano Quintet in F-Sharp Minor: III. Allegretto grazioso
06. Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective - Hahn: Le Rossignol des lilas (arranged for Tenor & String Quartet by Tom Poster)
07. Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective - Hahn: Chanson d’automne (arranged for Tenor & String Quartet by Tom Poster)
08. Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective - Hahn: L’Énamourée (arranged for Tenor & Piano Quinet by Tom Poster)
09. Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective - Hahn: Quartet in G Major for Violin, Viola, Cello & Piano: I. Allegretto moderato
10. Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective - Hahn: Quartet in G Major for Violin, Viola, Cello & Piano: II. [Sérénade.] Allegro assai
11. Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective - Hahn: Quartet in G Major for Violin, Viola, Cello & Piano: III. Andante
12. Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective - Hahn: Quartet in G Major for Violin, Viola, Cello & Piano: IV. Allegro assai
13. Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective - Hahn: La Barcheta (arranged for Tenor & Piano Quinet by Tom Poster)



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