By samizdat
22-Aug-2011

Goldmark Piano Quintets  

I recently heard one of the Piano Quintets featured on this recording at a concert in Toronto titled Forgotten Romantics. I was very impressed by it, found this first rate recording on Naxos and downloaded it from here. I chose to download it because I have several music loving friends who I am confident will like it as much as I do and who will almost certainly not have it in their collections. I am new to downloading and have limited myself so far to music hard to access any other way. That seems to me the best way to get value from the site while keeping the cost to me under control. As a subscriber to Naxos I can listen to these and any other Naxos recordings on my computer anytime, but when I download recordings like these they make superb, inexpensive yet very personal gifts for my friends.

During the same concert series I also heard a wonderful piano quartet by Goetz and I found it, too, on Naxos, recorded on a specialist German label I had never heard of before. Both recordings are of a very high standard and I am delighted with them. They exemplify the reasons why Naxos and ClassicsOnline websites are such an exciting discovery for me.
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