Ries, Peterson-Berger and Gouvy from cpo

[Hilleries]

The Ries sounds spectacularly good from the excerpts now available at jpc (see first post for link).

I already have a mp3 of the broadcast made around when they recorded it. It is a fantastic piece, in some ways I like it better than the latter oratorio (Könige in Israel)

[eschiss1]

I hope they're carrying on with Ries' chamber music. There's some I was wholly unaware of including an unpublished (well, published -now-, as of the 1990s; I should say left-in-manuscript) string sextet in A minor from his last years, that I'd like to hear

[Hilleries]

I also performed a piano quartet in e minor that's fantastic, and hasn't been recorded yet (by cpo, I think there's a recording of it somewhere).

[eschiss1]

Could be the piano quartet no.3 Op.129 in E minor published maybe ca.1824 parts here.

[Hilleries]

Yes, we used that score.

[Alan Howe]

The Gouvy's a dud. An hour and a half of unremitting boredom. Oh dear: there's some nicely translucent string-writing, but just nothing distinctive to the piece at all. 

The Ries, though, is something else. Comments to follow.