Unheard - Works by Jokl; Süsskind; Hauer

The Guardian 80

Kozelj/Reuss/Ebony Quartet
(Channel Classics)

Like those of its parent ensemble, the Ebony Band, the members of the Ebony Quartet all have day jobs playing in the great Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam. The declared mission of both groups is to revive forgotten music from the 1920s and 30s, and so it’s no surprise to find that, of the six pieces in this collection – none of which have apparently appeared on disc before – only one is the work of a composer who is well known today, Josef Matthias Hauer, while two more are by Hans Walter Süsskind, who is remembered now as a conductor rather than a composer.

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