NEW ON NAXOS | JANUARY 2026
Leó WEINER (1885–1960) Violin Sonatas Nos. 1 1 and 2 2 Romanze, Op. 14 3 • Ballade, Op. 8 4 Csaba Klenyán, Clarinet 4 • Júlia Pusker, Violin 1, 2 Ditta Rohmann, Cello 3 • István Kassai, Piano
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Leó Weiner’s legacy as an educator influenced generations of Hungarian musicians for a half century. His early work as a composer was internationally acclaimed for its new engaging sound, resulting from a unique synthesis of German and French Romanticism allied to a Hungarian musical language. These chamber works with piano are some of the best of his early opuses, from the ‘classical nobility and deep poetic substance’ of the Ballade , to the dramatic and stunningly beautiful Violin Sonata No. 2 – two pieces that were popular and widely performed in their day. Key features: • This recording is an excellent reflection of Leó Weiner’s remarkable early success as a composer, with each work premiered by notable musicians and sometimes received to a stampede of acclaim. On its premiere the Ballade, Op. 8 was ‘rewarded with a thunderous ovation, and they had to play the whole ballad again’, which is a rare reaction both in 1912 and now. Weiner’s essentially conservative nature as a composer saw him overtaken in the 20th century by more progressive names, but this need not prevent us from appreciating his remarkably fine music today. • This release follows on from our album of Leó Weiner’s First Violin Concerto (Naxos 8.574707) that appeared in November 2025, also with violinist Júlia Pusker . Our catalogue also has Weiner’s complete orchestral music on 3 discs and his great symphonic poem Toldi (Naxos 8.573847).
8.574731 Release date: 16 Jan 2026
Companion titles – Leó Weiner, Composer
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Click to listen to Romanze, Op. 14
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Georges ONSLOW (1784–1853) String Quintets, Vol. 5 Nos. 14 and 24 Ensemble Telos
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Georges Onslow’s reputation as the ‘French Beethoven’ was earned in the field of chamber music. His 34 string quintets build on a form perfected by Mozart, and are enhanced through Onslow’s suggested use of a double bass instead of a second cello, as heard in this recording. The String Quintet No. 14 in F major has an attractively genial quality, with distinctive themes contrasting with warmly emotive lyricism; String Quintet No. 24 in D major shows the influence of Beethoven in its theatrically dramatic moods. Key features: •
Previous volumes of our recordings of Onslow’s String Quintets have been a great success and were warmly received by the critics. Vol. 1 (8.573600): ‘Onslow is a composer of imagination and beauty, and these are highly interesting and worthwhile works’ ( American Record Guide ); Fanfare commented on Vol. 4 (8.574187), ‘This is music you don’t want to miss, in splendid sound’. • Ensemble Telos appears here in its Naxos debut, bringing a fresh perspective to the Romantic string quintets of George Onslow in this fifth volume of our complete edition, and uniting five distinguished musicians from leading international institutions. These include double bassist Matthew Baker, whose work on Georges Onslow’s quintets with Naxos Records is a core focus, bringing both performance and scholarship to the forefront of the quintet’s mission to illuminate this composer’s unique voice.
8.574709 Release date: 30 Jan 2026
Companion titles – Previous releases in the series
Natalie Lin Douglas , Patrick Yim , Matthew Baker , Jamie Clark and Eric Wong
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Click to listen to String Quintet No. 14 in F major, Op. 37: I. Allegro moderato
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