Gaetano Brunetti, qui est né en Italie, probablement en Fano, en 1744 et mort à Madrid en 1798, était parmi les compositeurs les plus progressistes de son temps. Il rejoint la Cour de Madrid dès le début et sous le roi Charles III rose pour le poste de professeur de violon et Bugles du Prince des Asturies, le futur roi Charles IV. Sous son règne, la vie musicale à la Cour d'Espagne a gagné en importance et Brunetti rose d'être le directeur de l'orchestre royal de chambre fondée en 1795. Le quintette à cordes présents s'engage au style concertante. Comme toutes les parties dans cette pièce peuvent changer leur fonction, les registres sont souvent changés ainsi qui mène à un paramètre de chaîne avec les plus subtiles nuances tonales. Ce quintet est un ajout précieux pour ensembles de l'intéressé. / 2 Violons, 2 Altos Et Violoncelle

Of all his early chamber works the 'Nocturne' is most clearly by the mature Vaughan Williams almost anticipating the influence of Ravel which followed his lessons from the French composer in 1908. In the veiled beauty of its highly chromatic harmonies we hear already the tone-poet of the slow movement of 'A London Symphony' while in the fleet-footed 'Scherzo' there is already a French influence in the way the folk-song is subtly woven into the texture only brief snatches of the tune being heard until the penultimate page when it receives fuller treatment. The work plays for about 10 minutes. The 1904 'Scherzo' is a vigorous march with fugal episodes which lasts some 6minutes and may effectively be performed by itself.

Full score Henle Urtext edition of W.A. Mozart's String Quintets Volume 1. Mozart applied himself to this genre six times even giving important parts to the two violas. For this edition the editors were able to refer tothe autograph which is once again accessible. It shows Mozart’s intensive compositional work resulting in the fact that he composed the minuet and finale of the work a second time. The first version of both movements is includedin the appendix of our edition enabling insightful comparisons.

Small format score of this work by Max Bruch edited by Michael Kube with a forword by Christopher Fifield. Max Bruch's String Quintet In E flat major.