The performing team of Piers Lane and the Goldner String Quartet has won many plaudits for their enlightening interpretations of the obscurer piano quintet repertoire. Now they turn to a composer who triumphed in the genre. Dvorvák’s two piano quintets were written at different stages of the composer’s career: the first during a period of poverty and uncertainty, the second when the composer was approaching the zenith of his international fame. The two quintets make a fascinating pairing here. Dvorvák originally tore up his manuscript of the first; luckily the pianist at the premiere kept a copy. It is clearly a youthful work, showing something of the discursiveness of the early string quartets, a point noted by a critic at the premiere, but there is no doubting the confidence with which Dvorvák handles the combination of piano and strings (doubly impressive since he did not possess a piano at this time), which in many places anticipates the instrumentation in the famous second piano quintet. Dvorvák’s second Piano Quintet was an immediate popular success at its first performance and has remained one of the best-loved examples of the genre. The premiere was given by four of the finest Czech string players of the day and the promising conductor and composer Karel Kovarovic at the piano. The celebrated ‘Dumka’ movement, the lyrical heart of the work, demonstrates the extraordinary command of melody that characterizes the composer’s symphonies. Performances of technical polish and expressive power, sensitively recorded, combine to make this a chamber disc to treasure.

• Wykonawca Lane Piers , Goldner String Quartet
• Data premiery 2010-01-01
• Nośnik CD

DANZI COMPL WIND QUINTETS 3CD. COMPLETE WIND QUINTETS: THE WIND QUINTETS (OPP.56, 67 & 68); THE QUINTETS FOR PIANO AND WINDS (OPP.41, 53 & 54)

• Wykonawca Derwinger Love
• Nośnik CD

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart could have been proud of the unusual instrumentation of Quintet KV 452, for there had been to date no examples of this combination of piano and wind. At the same time combining piano and wind was by no means an easy compositional task, because of the problems with regard to the relative loudness of the instruments involved. This must also be the reason why this instrumentation was seldom re-used except in works which directly call to mind Mozart’s, such as, for example, the quintets of Beethoven and Danzi. There appears in the Quintet a unique blend of different genres and musical styles that expresses the underlying harmoniemusik through the four wind instruments, is reminiscent of a piano concerto and a Sinfonia concertante with the concertante treatment of the instruments involved. Ludwig van Beethoven took Mozart’s work as a direct model for his Quintett op. 16. This is not only the adoption of the same key and sequence of movements obviously, but extends to structural elements and further details. Yet even more than Mozart’s work, Beethoven’s Quintet is a kind of “chamber concerto”, with the piano and wind  instruments in opposition. Both quintets belong inseparably together because no further works with this instrumentation and at such an outstanding level have been written

• Wykonawca Il Gardellino , Vermeulen Jan
• Data premiery 2009-09-01
• Nośnik CD

Tracklista: CD 1 – 6. 1. Symphonies & String Symphonies CD 7 + 8 1. Piano Concertos CD 9 1. Violin Concerto CD 10 + 11 1. Piano Quartets + Quintets CD 12 – 14 1. String Quartets + Quintets CD 15 + 16 1. Sonatas for Violin, Cello & Piano CD 17 – 20 1. Organ Works CD 21 + 23 1. Serenade, Duets & Songs CD 24 1. Overtures CD 25 1. A Midsummer Night’s Dream CD 26 + 27 1. Der Onkel aus Boston CD 28 1. Heimkehr aus der Fremde CD 29 1. Die erste Walpurgisnacht CD 30 1. Athalia CD 31 + 32 1. Elias CD 33 + 34 1. Paulus CD 35 + 36 1. Psalms CD 37 – 43 1. Sacred Choral Works CD 44 1. Songs without Words CD 45 1. Piano Works

• Wykonawca Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR
• Data premiery 2017-10-01
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DANZI COMPL WIND QUINTETS 3CD. COMPLETE WIND QUINTETS: THE WIND QUINTETS (OPP.56, 67 & 68); THE QUINTETS FOR PIANO AND WINDS (OPP.41, 53 & 54)

• Wykonawca Derwinger Love
• Nośnik CD

FAURE: Piano Quintets

• Wykonawca Fine Arts Quartet
• Data premiery 2009-06-19
• Nośnik CD

The relatively novel instrumental combination which Mozart used for his string quintets (employing two violas) seems to have been inspired by a work by his friend and colleague Michael Haydn. Throughout his life Mozart loved the dusky sonority of the viola, always his instrument of choice when he played chamber music with friends. Beyond that, prompted by Michael Haydn’s charming, lightweight Notturno, he was evidently eager to explore a medium that enabled him to indulge his fondness for dark, saturated textures and rich inner-part writing.The complete String Quintets is a enchanting body of chamber music, recorded here in a 3-disc set by the peerless Nash Ensemble.

• Wykonawca The Nash Ensemble , Dukes Philip
• Data premiery 2010-07-01
• Nośnik CD

CD1 Violin Sonatas + FAE SonataDumay / PiresFerras / Barbizet (FAE Sonata)CD2 Cello Sonatas opp. 38 & 99Rostro / SerkinCD3 Clarinet Sonatas + Trio op 114Leister / DemusLeister / Borowitzy / Vasary CD4 Piano Trios op. 8, 87Dumay / Wang / PiresCD5 Piano Trio op. 101, Piano Quartet op. 26Brandis / Borowitzky / VasaryCD6 Piano Quartets op. 25, 60Brandis / Christ / Borowitzky / Vasary CD7 String Quartets op. 51Emerson String QuartetCD8 String Quartet op. 67, Piano Quintet op. 34Emerson String Quartet / Leon FleisherCD9 String Quintets op. 88 & op. 111Hagen Quartett, Gerard Caussé CD 10 Horn Trio op. 40, Clarinet Quintet op. 115Hauptmann, Brandis, Vasary Emerson SQ / Shifrin (op. 115)CD11 String Sextets opp. 18 & 36Amadeus Quartet

• Wykonawca Amadeus Quartet , Hagen Quartett , Emerson String Quartet
• Data premiery 2012-08-28
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