W. S. Huffman

[semloh]

There have been no posts about W. Spencer Huffman (1921-2005) for over a decade, so I thought I would draw attention to his unequivocally neo-romantic chamber works which can be found at a dedicated YT site. I find all the works there a sheer delight, but especially the piano quintet (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCqHQ3-SamM), and I would love to know what UC members think about them.

[Mark Thomas]

The Quintet is delicious, Colin, thanks so much for the heads up. Of course there's a part of me that thinks that, dating from 1970 not 1870, it couldn't be more of an anachronism but that's just "conditioning". The music's the thing and it's a joy. I'm looking forward to investigating more of Huffman's work.

[Maury]

It was a bit hard for me to assess this because I found the performance rhythmically disjointed. Is there another better performance? Looking at the date of the performance in July 2022 it is entirely possible that pandemic related lockdowns inhibited group practices.