Chamber, Quintets, Dvořák (composer)
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Dvorak: Quintets Op. 81 & 97
RecommendedBoris Giltburg (piano), Pavel Nikl (viola)
Pavel Haas Quartet
Throughout the slow movement, the playing of the solo lines is captivating…The Haas Quartet with Boris Giltburg provide both relaxation and a strong sense of purposeful energy…Excellently recorded,... —
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2017, Recording of the month
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2017, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th October 2017
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2017
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Building a Library, April 2018, Recommended Recording
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Winner - Chamber
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Building A Library, February 2026, Top Choice (Op. 97)
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Their performance of Dvořák’s magical Second Piano Quintet is magnificent. The verve and sheer beauty of the string playing is immediately apparent in the glorious cello solo at the opening,... —
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2025, Chamber Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2025, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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Their attention to detail produces constantly arresting textures and the recorded balance allows the all-important viola lines full prominence…Their performance of Dvořák’s last string quartet…is... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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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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New. Dvořák: String Quintets
James Ehnes (violin), Tessa Lark, Jonathan Vinocour, Ani Aznavoorian, Timothy Cobb, Amy Schwartz Moretti, Paul Neubauer (violin), Che-Yen Chen, Edward Arron
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Often performances, understandably, concentrate on the outgoing qualities of [the Quintet and the ‘American’], but the Škampa Quartet is alive to their underlying soulfulness. Nor do they neglect... —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2017, Editor's Choice
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The Times Records of the Year, 2017
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The Emersons have thought very deeply about this repertoire and their affection and profound experience of this music is evident everywhere...these are interpretations which demand to be heard... —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2010, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2010, Chamber Choice
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The sheer quality and naturalness of their music-making is deliciously demonstrated in the development section of the opening movement of the First Quintet of 1872…The main act here is the Second... —
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Dvorak: String Quintet Op. 97 & String Sextet Op.48
Veronika Hagen (viola), Gary Hoffman (cello), Jerusalem Quartet
Listening to a performance as good as this, it is hard to understand why we don’t hear the Sextet more frequently today…The Jerusalem Quartet, joined by Veronika Hagen (viola) and Gary Hoffman... —
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Record Review, 27th January 2018, Recording of the Week
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