Baltic Inspiration - Piano Quartets
Arvydas Malcys & Pēteris Vasks
Ippolitov-Ivanov Piano Quartet
This collection of piano quartets showcases a breadth of stylistic influences. A worthy intro to the works, which exploit the instruments’ timbral possibilities to great effect.
Baltic Inspiration - Piano Quartets
Arvydas Malcys & Pēteris Vasks
Ippolitov-Ivanov Piano Quartet
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This collection of piano quartets showcases a breadth of stylistic influences. A worthy intro to the works, which exploit the instruments’ timbral possibilities to great effect.
About
The 'Piano Quartet' by much-admired Latvian composer Peteris Vasks is one of his longest and most imposing chamber works. Unfolding with inexorable expressive force, it utilises dancelike motifs and folk-inflected themes throughout. The pieces by Lithuanian composer Arvydas Malcys form a cohesive sequence akin to a three-movement piano quartet in which specific sound effects, emotional power and colourful textures are in perfect alignment.
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- Ippolitov-Ivanov Piano Quartet
- Ippolitov-Ivanov Piano Quartet
- Ippolitov-Ivanov Piano Quartet
Awards and reviews
March 2020
This collection of piano quartets showcases a breadth of stylistic influences. A worthy intro to the works, which exploit the instruments’ timbral possibilities to great effect.
April 2020
The piano quartet medium needs works like these. So too the resplendence, power and imagination of an ensemble like the Moscow-based Ippolitov-Ivanov… Unmissable.
February 2020
Fine accounts of unfailingly attractive music.
