Kalkbrenner: Chamber Music

On their latest CD, the Linos Ensemble offer new discoveries and rewarding additions to the chamber repertoire: works by Friedrich Kalkbrenner (1785-1849), reputed to be one of the most gifted pianists of his time. + The piano, played here by Konstanze Eickhorst, plays a leading role in both the sextet and septet, and both chamber works in large part offer an enormous wealth of tone colors and manifold opportunities for register shifts. + They are complemented by his fantasy for piano on the Scottish song “We're A' Noddin” (1823), in which he expresses his romantic enthusiasm for Scotland.