Dennis Russell Davies, Stuttgart Wind Quintet - Thuille & Poulenc: Sextets For Piano and Wind Quintet

This re-release is a model example illustrating the principles for which MDG has stood for forty years: outstanding artists perform magnificent music often situated off the mainstream.Ludwig Thuille participated in �Ritter�s Round Table� with his friend Richard Strauss. For the young composer still in search of his musical self, the encounter with Liszt�s ardent admirer and Wagner�s friend Alexander Ritter, in whose home these gatherings were held, must have been a revelation.By contrast, Francis Poulenc is always associated with spontaneity, musical wit, and improvisation. And in fact Poulenc hardly pursued studies in the traditional sense of theterm � which makes the architecture of his Sextet all the more impressive.Recommended.