Paul Juon - Piano Sextet in C minor. Op. 22 (1902)

Paul Juon

(Russian: Па́вел Фёдорович Юо́н, Pavel Fyodorovich Yuon; 6 March 1872 – 21 August 1940)

was a Russian-born Swiss composer, pianist and composition professor at Berlin employed by JosephJoachim.

 

Piano Sextet, in C minor. Op. 22 (1902)

Dedication: Herrn Generalmusikdirektor Fritz Steinbach gewidmet

1. Moderato (0:00​) Thema con variazioni (13:29​) 2. Andantino quasi Allegretto (5 variations.) - Attacca 3. Menuetto (22:09​) (Also = Variations 6–7.) Attacca 4. Intermezzo. Moderato piacevole (26:13​) (Var. 8 & Coda.) 5. Finale. Allegro non troppo (28:48​)

Oliver Triendl, piano; Thomas Grossenbacher, cello & Carmina Quartett

Deutsche Kammerakademie (Winfried Rademacher & Ingeborg Scherer, Violine / Diemut Poppen, Viola / Johannes Goritzki & Richard Lester, Violoncello / David Levine, Klavier)

 

His works include sonatas for viola, cello, winds, and three for violin (the third was recorded on a multi-LP set called Musik zwischen den Kriegen : eine Berliner Dokumentation), four symphonies (including one in manuscript) and also a chamber symphony, four string quartets, several piano trios, piano quartets and piano quintets as well as one sextet for piano and strings from 1902 and a wind quintet, a number of concerted works including three violin concerti and a triple concerto with piano trio, many piano works and lieder, and a number of stage works including an opera Aleko. Several of these works have been recorded on compact disc, including some of the sonatas, two of the concertos, two of the symphonies, all four string quartets and all of the piano trios. He is known to have orchestrated Johannes Brahms' Hungarian Dance No. 4.