Label: Evil Penguin
Format: CD
Barcode: 0608917725025
Catalog number: EPRC 0063
Releasedate: 07-06-24
Format: CD
Barcode: 0608917725025
Releasedate: 07-06-24
- First time collaboration between the Zemlinsky Quartet and Paolo Giacometti
- A must for anyone interested in the great tradition of Mitteleuropa chamber music.
- A unique coupling of two beautiful works rarely recorded and underrated by discography.
- The two Quintets were composed within a ten year span (1904-1914), a period of fantastic musical flourishing.
- Zemlinsky Quartet belongs to the glorious tradition of Centre-European string quartets, characterized by nobility and spontaneity of expression, flawless technique, lack of mannersisms, profound and humble insight of the score.
The disc presents two quintets for piano and string quartet by two distinguished Hungarian composers from the 20th century: Béla Bartók and Ernst von Dohnányi. While Bartók’s Piano Quintet is an outstanding juvenilia, Dohnányi’s sophisticated work represents its author at its best.
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1Piano Quintet C Major Sz. 23I. Andante. Allegro molto12:27
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2Piano Quintet C Major Sz. 23II. Vivace (Scherzando)09:11
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3Piano Quintet C Major Sz. 23III. Adagio11:25
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4Piano Quintet C Major Sz. 23IV. Poco a poco più vivace. Vivace molto08:25
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5Piano Quintet No. 2 E flat Minor Op. 26I. Allegro non troppo09:09
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6Piano Quintet No. 2 E flat Minor Op. 26II. Intermezzo. Allegretto05:07
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7Piano Quintet No. 2 E flat Minor Op. 26III. Moderato10:34