Chamber, Quintets, Franck, C (composer)
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Franck: Piano Quintet & Debussy: String Quartet
RecommendedMarc-André Hamelin (piano)
Takács Quartet
An exemplary performance —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2016, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Both play [the Franck] with poetry and warmth but can turn solid where coolly patrician tone is needed, and the air only really clears in time for the floating, sweet lyricism of the finale.... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Instrumentalist of the Year (Capuçon)
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The Fine Arts Quartet… are at their very best in both slow movements, with Christina Ortiz matching their ebb and flow perfectly in the Quintet. —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2010, Editor's Choice
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Meaty playing that brings out the angst in these knotty, chromatic works. The Quartet’s Larghetto has an expansive feel while the Quintet’s finale has a devilish abandon. —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2018, Editor's Choice
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Building a Library, May 2006, Historic Choice
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Building a Library, March 2019, Also Recommended
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César Franck: Violin Sonata, Piano Trio No.1 & Piano Quintet & Vierne: Piano Quintet
Trio Wanderer (piano trio), Catherine Montier, Christophe Gaugué
Vierne’s extraordinary Piano Quintet...is an apposite choice here, not just for its affinity to Franck, readily apparent in this searing performance, but as a programmatic black armband in this... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Chamber Music
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Marking Franck’s 200th anniversary, the Eliot Quartett, alongside pianist Dmitry Ablogin, is never less than tasteful in the Belgian composer’s chamber works. Though Lalo described the Piano... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Chamber Music
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Franck & Martin: Piano Quintets
Martin Klett (piano), Martin Funda (violin), Johanna Staemmler (violin), Teresa Schwamm (viola), Peter-Philipp Staemmler (cello), Armida Quartett
Admirers of the Franck will not be disappointed, but ultimately it’s the Martin that makes the disc very special indeed. —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2023, Editor's Choice
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One of the performers’ tasks [in the Franck] is to grade the excitements so that we get some feeling of shape in a whole movement. Here this task is fulfilled admirably, helped by discreet vibrato... —
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2020, Chamber Choice
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