LETTER of the MONTH
Quite Reicha
hank you for your interesting feature on Beethoven’s life and works (February issue). I would like to bang the drum for an exact contemporary ofpiano recordings on the Chandos label, which feature pieces quite different in style from each other and from the quintets for which he is best known today. There is also music for four flutes, three horns, three cellos and many string quartets, and so much more unpublished work still to be discovered, due to Reicha’s ‘aversion to seeking performances’ after frustration with the business of marketing himself in Paris.
