PAUL JUON (1872-1940)

Arabesken for Oboe, Clarinet and Bassoon, Op. 73, Wind Quintet in B, Op. 84

HANS HUBER (1852-1921)

Sextet for Piano and Winds in B.

Huber's late Romantic sextet (1898), in four movements, has a Brahmsian, symphonic breadth and heart-warming, expansive high spirits; its lively finale makes virtuoso use of a Swiss folk melody. Juon's 1930 quintet is transparently light and spirited while his «Arabesques» of 1940 are made up of four freely imagined studies of variegated sound and mood. Swiss Wind Quintet, Michiko Otaki (piano). Koch Discover DICD 920481 (Belgium)