Franck - String Quartet & Piano Quintet
Cristina Ortiz (piano)
Fine Arts Quartet
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2010, Editor's Choice
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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.
Franck - String Quartet & Piano Quintet
Cristina Ortiz (piano)
Fine Arts Quartet
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Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2010, Editor's Choice
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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.
About
Cristina Ortiz and the Fine Arts Quartet again join forces for this recording of Franck’s Piano Quintet.The extraordinary emotional range of this work is unified by the tight thematic relationships typical of the composer’s ‘cyclic’ structuring.
His String Quartet, composed ten years later, is a summit of Franck’s achievement, also cyclically conceived and revealing his admiration of Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Brahms.
Contents and tracklist
- Fine Arts Quartet
- Recorded: 19-22 March 2008
- Recording Venue: Salle de musique L'heure bleue, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland
- Cristina Ortiz (piano)
- Fine Arts Quartet
- Recorded: 19-22 March 2008
- Recording Venue: Salle de musique L'heure bleue, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland
Spotlight on this release
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César Franck
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Awards and reviews
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Gramophone MagazineFebruary 2010Editor's Choice
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Presto FavouritesRecommended Recording
Christmas 2009
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.
February 2010
Ortiz and her colleagues realise all of Franck's pent-up feeling in a performance of a special musical refinement and commitment… The Fine Arts Quartet, too, are entirely at home in the very different scope of the String Quartet, relishing both the music's contrapuntal intricacy and its full-blown romanticism.
2011 edition
very fine accounts of both masterpieces. They have ardour and finesse in equal measure.
13th March 2015
Like his larger-scale works, Franck's chamber compositions are few in number but utterly distinctive. As in the Symphony, Franck's favoured cyclic form is here a unifying factor in both works. The Fine Arts Quartet and pianist Cristina Ortiz reveal the full emotional scope of these intimate and moving pieces.
