Release Date: 01 February 2014
Label: Helios / Hyperion Records Ltd
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 034571154725
Genres: Classical Chamber Music
Description
The two works recorded here come from different periods in Dvorak’s career. In the String Quintet in G he dispenses with a second viola, instead placing a double bass beneath the single cello, but textural richness is not the composer’s aim: one can listen to passages of the work without sensing any pointed differences from quartet texture.
Similarly, the success of the Piano Quintet in A rests on its happy reconciliation of forces. Dvorak’s early attempts at composing for the piano had been hampered by his own lack of familiarity with the instrument, but in this work he achieves a remarkable fluency, with five instruments operating as consistent equals and in harmonious unity and balance.
Tracklisting
Mishka Rushdie Momen
The Gesualdo Six / Owain Park
Takacs Quartet
Simon Callaghan, Sinfonieorchester St Gallen
Cinquecento
Andrey Gugnin
El Leon de Oro / Peter Phillips
Piers Lane
The Gaudier Ensemble
The Gaudier Ensemble
The Gaudier Ensemble
The Gaudier Ensemble
The Gaudier Ensemble
The Gaudier Ensemble
The Gaudier Ensemble
