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Schumann: Piano Quartet – Brahms: Piano Quintet

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Catalogue numberBIS-2258 SACD
Release date2017-11-10
Discs1
Orig. sample rate96000 Hz
Total time64:32

Robert Schumann composed the Op. 47 Piano Quartet in E flat major in his so-called ‘chamber music year’ of 1842, immediately after finishing the famous piano quintet in the same key. Despite the proximity in time and tonality, there are clear differences between the two works: the quintet tends more towards a concertante dialogue between the piano and string quartet while the quartet favours equality between the four parts – even if the cello has something of a leading role among the strings.

Some ten years later, the young Johannes Brahms was entrusted with the task of making a piano four-hands arrangement of the quartet, and it is quite possible that this contact with Schumann’s chamber music for piano and strings opened his eyes to the potential of the genre. In any case, with its almost inexhaustible motivic abundance and captivating energy Brahms’s Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34, is one of the most often performed works for these forces. Completed in 1864 it had actually started off as a string quintet which Brahms first reworked as a sonata for two pianos before arriving at the final scoring. Performing these two central works in 19th century chamber music is Yevgeny Sudbin and an international group of eminent string players consisting of violinists Hrachya Avanesyan and Boris Brovtsyn, violist Diemut Poppen and cellist Alexander Chaushian.
 
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  Composer: Schumann, Robert
  Quartet for piano, violin, viola and cello, Op. 47 25:20
01 I. Sostenuto assai — Allegro ma non troppo 08:36 $ 2.08 USD
02 II. Scherzo. Molto vivace 03:16 $ 0.79 USD
03 III. Andante cantabile 05:59 $ 1.44 USD
04 IV. Finale. Vivace 07:29 $ 1.84 USD
 
 
  Composer: Brahms, Johannes
  Quintet for piano, 2 violins, viola and cello, Op. 34 38:02
05 I. Allegro non troppo 13:45 $ 3.34 USD
06 II. Andante, un poco Adagio 07:31 $ 1.82 USD
07 III. Scherzo. Allegro – Trio 06:45 $ 1.64 USD
08 IV. Finale. Poco sostenuto—Allegro non troppo – Presto
non troppo
10:01 $ 2.52 USD
 
  Album total 64:32
ComposerBrahms, Johannes
Schumann, Robert
PianoSudbin, Yevgeny
ViolinAvanesyan, Hrachya
Brovtsyn, Boris
ViolaPoppen, Diemut
CelloChaushian, Alexander

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