Chamber, Quintets, Piano Quintets, Schumann (composer)
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Schumann: Piano Quartet & Piano Quintet
Isabelle Faust (violin), Anne-Katharina Schreiber (violin, Antoine Tamestit (viola), Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello), Alexander Melnikov (piano)
The Quintet is a brilliant virtuoso vehicle with a symphonic tone but these five musicians don’t turn it into a quasi-piano concerto with string quartet, as sometimes occurs. Rather, they meld... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Winners, Chamber
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Chamber Music
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2024
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Special offer. Brahms & Schumann: Piano Quintets
RecommendedLeif Ove Andsnes (piano)
Artemis Quartet
With an almost ideal balance between piano and strings, the variety of articulation in their playing brings a marvellous textural variety to the full-blooded writing in the outer movements of... —
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Building a Library, April 2008, First Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2007, Chamber Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2008, Winner - Chamber
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Building a Library, April 2021, Also Recommended - Schumann Quintet
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Hamelin scampers and thunders by turns but not once does he upstage the string-players. That this disc simply gets better and better on repeated listening is ample recommendation. —
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Building a Library, January 2019, Recommended Recording
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Martha Argerich & Friends: Live from the Lugano Festival 2012
RecommendedMaria João Pires (piano), Martha Argerich (piano), Gautier Capuçon (cello), Lily Maisky (piano), Sascha Maisky (violin), Lyda Chen (viola), Mischa Maisky (cello), Nicholas Angelich (piano), Polina Leschenko (piano), Ilya Gringolts (violin), Nathan Braude (viola), Torleif Thedéen (cello), Nelson Goerner...
Several of the ensembles could have benefited from more sustained period of rehearsal, yet they still communicate vibrancy and the sheer enjoyment possible when fine musicians get together to... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 13th May 2013
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2013, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Shortlisted - Chamber
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Schumann: Piano Quintet & Brahms: Piano Quartet No. 2
RecommendedClifford Curzon (piano)
Budapest String Quartet
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Building a Library, April 2008, Budget Choice
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Robert Schumann: Complete Piano Trios, Piano Quartet & Piano Quintet
Trio Wanderer, Christophe Gaugue, Catherine Montier
The playing [in the Quintet and Quartet] has a delightful combination of zest and refinement, and love for the music’s poetry and delight in its unique inventiveness emanates from just about... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Chamber Music
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2021, Musique de chambre
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Quatuor Hanson embrace this music as if in a romantic fairy tale...a wholly excellent performance, pleasing and competitive. —
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Includes an impassioned account of Haydn’s Seven Last Words (each movement sounding quite unlike its immediate neighbour, which isn’t always the case...Transfer engineers Ward Marston and Mark... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2023, Reissue/Archive Issue of the Month
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Schumann & Elgar - Piano Quintets
Lars Vogt (piano), Christian Tetzlaff (violin), with Radoslav Szulc, Tatjana & Claudio Bohorquez
Lars Vogt is equally subtle and acutely penetrating in Schumann and Elgar… Teztlaff and his fellow strings have almost ideal tone and expressive touch in the first-movement second theme of... —
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