The Karlsruhe-based Josef Schelb's (1894–1977) output was substantial: he lost most of his early music in a bombing raid in 1942, but wrote some 150 more works after that. In the four chamber works recorded here Schelb’s counterpoint is given a bucolic twist under the influence of French Impressionism, the two traditions combining to invest these pieces with a freewheeling energy. Of the first volume of Schelb’s Chamber Music, MusicWeb International wrote: ‘All the performances here are well-recorded, stylish and alert.'
