HENRIQUE OSWALD (1852-1931): Piano Quintet in C, Op. 18, AMY BEACH (1867-1944): Piano Quintet in F Sharp Minor, Op. 67, Romance for Violin and Piano, MARLOS NOBRE (b.1939): Poema XXI for Piano Quintet.

Description: Receiving its first recording outside of Brazil, Oswald’s quintet (1895) was composed in Florence. Imprinted with the European influences he absorbed there, it is lit up by his own gift for heartfelt melody. Nobre’s little, four-minute Poema XXI – here in its premiere recording – carries itself with a distinctive character drawing on traditional South American dances to produce something effusive, elegant and exotic in equal measure. Clélia Iruzun (piano), Coull Quartet.