“In a certain sense, people live on as long as they are remembered. Accordingly, composers remain ‘alive’ as long as their music is heard. Music history knows both extremes: dazzling posthumous fame and complete oblivion. Yet sometimes, there are miraculous revivals—when seemingly lost works are rediscovered after decades of silence, performed again, and thus become (once more) part of our musical memory.” (Funk Stiftung)
We have recorded two chamber music works by the Hamburg composer Ernst-Georg Klussmann, dating from his early creative period – and we are fortunate to have had the opportunity to work on the piano quintet with Hungarian pianist Péter Nagy.
The music magazine Pizzicato has published a first review of the newly released album:
“The Kuss Quartet navigates confidently and expressively through the five movements and their shifts in mood, clearly bringing out the full depth of the work’s expressiveness. The interpretation breathes with tension, drama, and intensity—while not neglecting the lyricism of certain passages.”