Bruch/ Wdr Sinfonieorchester Chamber Players - String Quintets & Octet Fulfilled By FYE Bunny Berigan and Tommy Dorsey

Bunny Berigan and Tommy Dorsey from the late 1930s

Sam Brothers Five

happy acoustic blues

Joan Baez and others - one or two of their early recordings are included here

Bruch/ Wdr Sinfonieorchester Chamber Players - String Quintets & Octet Fulfilled By FYE Bunny Berigan and Tommy DorseyMax Bruch was eighty years old when, in 1918, he decided to return to the chamber music genre he had frequented in his early years. Stimulated by the violin virtuoso Willy Hess, he composed two string quintets and an octet, monuments to beauty and harmony, at the end of a tumultuous personal life and in the midst of a western world on the brink of collapse. After an album devoted to Beethoven's chamber music, the Chamber Players of the WDR