Zemlinsky Quartet, Paolo Giacometti
Release Date: 05 July 2024
Label: EPR-Classic
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 0608917725025
Genres: Classical Chamber Music
Description
The disc presents two quintets for piano and string quartet by two distinguished Hungarian composers from the 20th century: Bela Bartok and Ernst von Dohnanyi. While Bartok's Piano Quintet is an outstanding juvenilia, Dohnanyi's sophisticated work represents its author at its best.
This disc sees the first time collaboration between the Zemlinsky Quartet and Paolo Giacometti and is a must for anyone interested in the great tradition of Mitteleuropa chamber music. The unique coupling of these two beautiful and rarely recorded works are 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.
"this new recording […] balances the lightness and the richness really well. It's alongside Bela Bartok's youthful Piano Quintet in an appropriately Brahmsian performance." - BBC Radio 3, Record Review (Andrew McGregor)
Tracklisting
Brussels Philharmonic, Kazushi Ono
Verita Baroque Ensemble
Pieter Wispelwey
Verita Baroque Ensemble
Roeland Hendrikx, Staatsorchester Rheinische Philharmonie
Pieter Wispelwey
Dionysos Now!
Linus Roth & Petrit Ceku
Karolos
The Counterpoints
Narratio Quartet
Danbi Um; Juho Pohjonen
Engegard Quartet, NyNorsk Messingkvintett
Flute Alors
Louise Bessette
Jonas Batstrand, Jorn Fossheim
