Several releases concentrate on the chamber music for wind ensembles. On Chandos 6536 the Athena Ensemble plays the wonderful wind quintet La cheminée du roi René (1939), a sun-drenched Provençale reverie. The closing “Madrigal-Nocturne” is one of the most unashamedly pretty things written in the twentieth century (though the Athena plays it a shade too […]
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