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Schumann: Piano Quartet & Piano Quintet

Isabelle Faust (violin), Anne-Katharina Schreiber (violin, Antoine Tamestit (viola), Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello), Alexander Melnikov (piano)

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The Quintet is a brilliant virtuoso vehicle with a symphonic tone but these five musicians don’t turn it into a quasi-piano concerto with string quartet, as sometimes occurs. Rather, they meld...

Schumann: Piano Quartet & Piano Quintet

Isabelle Faust (violin), Anne-Katharina Schreiber (violin, Antoine Tamestit (viola), Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello), Alexander Melnikov (piano)

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The Quintet is a brilliant virtuoso vehicle with a symphonic tone but these five musicians don’t turn it into a quasi-piano concerto with string quartet, as sometimes occurs. Rather, they meld...

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In his Piano Quartet and Quintet, Schumann revisited the frameworks inherited from Schubert and Beethoven to create astonishingly innovative structures.

Their grandiose musical and emotional gestures place these works among his supreme achievements.

The prestigious artists assembled here, with their extensive experience of performing Schumann’s chamber music and concertos, do full justice to his imaginative world.

Contents and tracklist

I. Sostenuto assai - Allegro ma non troppo
Track length8:40
II. Scherzo. Molto vivace
Track length3:33
III. Andante cantabile
Track length6:21
IV. Finale. Vivace
Track length7:25

Awards and reviews

  • Gramophone Awards
    2024 Winners
    Chamber
  • International Classical Music Awards
    2025
    Nominated - Chamber Music
  • Gramophone Magazine
    Critics' Choice 2024

February 2024

The Quintet is a brilliant virtuoso vehicle with a symphonic tone but these five musicians don’t turn it into a quasi-piano concerto with string quartet, as sometimes occurs. Rather, they meld their ensemble seamlessly and attend to minute details of phrasing and dynamics without losing sight of the shape of each movement.

23rd November 2023

By any standards this is chamber music playing of the highest class; the fact that it’s performed on instruments of the period only makes it more satisfying.
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