COMPOSERS: Lekeu
LABELS: Arts
WORKS: Piano Trio in C minor; Piano Quartet (unfinished)
PERFORMER: Spiller Trio; Oscar Lysy (viola)
CATALOGUE NO: 47567-2
Twenty-four seems inordinately young to have written a full quota of compositions – and inordinately young to die. Belgian Guillaume Lekeu did both, and these passionate works, played with flair and fire by the Munich-based Spillers, suggest just what a loss he was to music. Janet Banks
Lekeu: Piano Trio in C minor; Piano Quartet (unfinished)
Twenty-four seems inordinately young to have written a full quota of compositions – and inordinately young to die. Belgian Guillaume Lekeu did both, and these passionate works, played with flair and fire by the Munich-based Spillers, suggest just what a loss he was to music. Janet Banks
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Published: January 20, 2012 at 1:20 pm