Dohnányi: Piano Quintets Nos. 1 & 2
Gottlieb Wallisch (piano)
Ensō String Quartet
[No. 1] is an astonishingly assured work, with strongly defined thematic ideas and a masterly handling of the chamber music medium that stands very much in the great Austro-German Romantic tradition...Wallisch...
Dohnányi: Piano Quintets Nos. 1 & 2
Gottlieb Wallisch (piano)
Ensō String Quartet
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[No. 1] is an astonishingly assured work, with strongly defined thematic ideas and a masterly handling of the chamber music medium that stands very much in the great Austro-German Romantic tradition...Wallisch...
About
Few composers have achieved greater success with their first published composition than Ernő Dohnányi with his Piano Quintet in C minor, Op. 1. Written in 1895 and praised highly by Brahms, who is believed to have organised a Viennese performance shortly afterwards, it heralded the emergence of a major new talent. The harmonic ambiguity of the 1914 Piano Quintet in E flat minor points to the composer’s awareness of ongoing developments in European music. Still underestimated, it ranks among the most important works of Dohnányi’s ‘middle period’.
Contents and tracklist
- Gottlieb Wallisch
- Ensō String Quartet
- Gottlieb Wallisch
- Ensō String Quartet
Awards and reviews
February 2015
[No. 1] is an astonishingly assured work, with strongly defined thematic ideas and a masterly handling of the chamber music medium that stands very much in the great Austro-German Romantic tradition...Wallisch and the Enso Quartet deliver a highly charged account.
