Complete Chamber Music for Flute & Strings Vol. 3

Featuring

Karl Kaiser
Annette Rehberger
Sebastian Wohlfarth
Martina Jessel
Anna Kaiser
Ardinghello Ensemble

Ferdinand Ries

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Critical Reception

Ries's flute chamber music, with its demanding and equally valued parts, was difficult to sell because it did not cater to the popular taste for virtuoso showpieces where one instrument shines.

Composer Biography

Ferdinand Ries, born in Bonn in 1784, led an erratic life due to historical upheavals, which allowed him to settle and achieve self-realization in a culturally significant role only for short periods.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Ferdinand Ries represents the transition from the Classical style to a new musical expression and thought, with his piano playing described as 'Romantic wildness' in 1824.

Interpretation

The Ardinghello Ensemble performs chamber music from the Classical and Romantic periods, focusing on both well-known composers and previously unknown compositions, using historical bows and flutes to enhance emotional access to the music.

Compositional Technique

Ries's Flute Quartets Op. 145 are extensive chamber music works with equally valued and demanding parts for all instruments, conceived like a Haydn, Mozart, or Beethoven string quartet.

Composition History

The Flute Quartets Op. 145 were composed in London between 1814-15, where Ries spent his most successful years, but were only published in 1826 by Nikolaus Simrock, a leading music publisher and Ries's old acquaintance.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Ferdinand Ries, through his unusually imaginative compositions, positions himself as a master of chamber music who both respects classical traditions and pioneers a poetic musical worldview that diverged from the mainstream of his time.