Nils Anders Mortensen, Engegård Quartet
Description
The combination of piano with string quartet was recognised as a viable ensemble relatively late, no outstanding work of this type appearing until Schumann's Piano Quintet of 1842. Subsequent composers – notably Brahms, Dvo 345;ák, Franck, Fauré, Elgar and Shostakovich – have added further fine works to the repertoire, some of which, like Schumann's, are now regarded as classics.
On this recording, Norwegian pianist Nils Anders Mortensen, together with the Engegård Quartet, presents us with Schumann's Piano Quintet Op. 44 and Piano Quartet, Op. 47.
Tracklisting
Mariam Kharatyan; Vigen Balasanyan; Alessandra Bossa
Berit Norbakken; Solmund Nystabakk
Trio Accanto; Eivind Buene
Stavanger Symphony Orchestra; Andris Poga
Ssens Trio
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra; Aivis Greters
Oslo Circles
Sunniva Rodland
Siglo de Oro, Spinacino Consort
Choir of Merton College, Oxford, Benjamin Nicholas
Roger Waters
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin; Vladimir Jurowski; Sarah Connolly; Robert Dean Smith
Oregon Symphony; Carlos Kalmar
Odhecaton; Paolo Da Col; The Gesualdo Six
Yo-Yo Ma & Friends
The Tallis Scholars; Peter Phillips
