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Pierne: Piano Quintet; Vierne: String Quartet

Goldner String Quartet

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Format: CD

Cat No: CDA68036

Release Date:  01 April 2014

Label:  Hyperion Records Ltd

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  034571280363

Genres:  Classical  Chamber Music  

  • Description

    The admired Goldner String Quartet presents two utterly charming—yet little-known—examples of French chamber music by contemporaneous composers Pierne and Vierne. Pierne’s fame came from his conducting, and his compositions are forgotten today. His Piano Quintet shows the influences of Massenet and Franck which characterize his music, and features the Basque dance ‘zortzico’. Vierne was a celebrated organist, and his compositions for organ are heard every Sunday wherever there are suitable instruments and performers. His String Quartet shows a lighter side: it contains the Intermezzo, described by Roger Nichols as ‘quite simply one of the most delicious movements in all French chamber music. Over it hovers the spirit of Berlioz’s ‘Queen Mab Scherzo’ and of Mendelssohn’s Midsummer Night’s Dream, conjured up by pizzicatos, tremolos and dancing phrases that suddenly turn on a centime piece from one key to another’.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. <b>GABRIEL PIERNÉ | Piano Quintet in E minor Op 41</b> | Moderato molto tranquillo [13'
      • 2. <b>GABRIEL PIERNÉ | Piano Quintet in E minor Op 41</b> | Sur un rythme de Zortzico [12'
      • 3. <b>GABRIEL PIERNÉ | Piano Quintet in E minor Op 41</b> | Lent Allegro vivo ed agitato
      • 4. <b>LOUIS VIERNE | String Quartet in D minor Op 12</b> | Introduction | Lento Allegro ag
      • 5. <b>LOUIS VIERNE | String Quartet in D minor Op 12</b> | Intermezzo | Leggiero non troppo
      • 6. <b>LOUIS VIERNE | String Quartet in D minor Op 12</b> | Andante quasi adagio [7'01] - Go
      • 7. <b>LOUIS VIERNE | String Quartet in D minor Op 12</b> | Allegro vivace [7'00] - Goldner