Description
This CD is the third in The Wallace Collection Bellon Complete Edition series. It was recorded in September/October 2020, in the Macpherson Recital Room at the Laidlaw Music Centre in the University of St Andrews. It continues The Wallace Collection ‘Origin of the Species’ series and completes the three volumes which present all of Bellon‘s quintets (now available as a three-disc boxed set).
This album includes Bellon’s Quintettes 8, 9, 10, and 11, as well as the ‘lost movement’ from Quintette No. 12.
The original Origin of the Species CD captured some of the repertory written for the Cyfarthfa Band founded in 1838 in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, and is still produced under the Nimbus label over twenty-five years after its release (NI5470). The first CD in this collected edition of the complete Bellon quintets was recorded in 1999 and released in April 2020, and the second volume and this third volume were recorded in 2020 and were both made available on public release in 2021.
Playlist:
- Quintette No. 8 in Bb major
- i. Allegretto
- ii. Minuetto
- iii.Sicilienne
- iv. Rondo
- Quintette No. 9 in G major
- i. Allegretto ma grazioso
- ii. Scherzo
- iii. Vieille chanson bachique
- iv. Finale – Danse hongroise
- Quintette No. 10 in Eb major
- i. Allegro
- ii. Scherzo
- iii. Finale
- Quintette No. 11 in B major
- i. Allegro moderato
- ii. Scherzo
- iii. Andante cantabile
- iv. Rondo polacca
- Quintette No. 12 in F minor*
- iv. Tema con variazioni**
*Quintette No. 12 is in F minor, whilst this final movement iv. is in F major (as per the listing on the CD)
