Mendelssohn - Octet; Franck - Piano Quintet
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Label: Nimbus
Cat No: NI7108
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 2nd August 2019
Contents
Artists
The Medici QuartetJohn Bingham (piano)
The Alberni Quartet
Works
Piano Quintet in F minor, FWV7Octet in E flat major, op.20
Artists
The Medici QuartetJohn Bingham (piano)
The Alberni Quartet
About
Franck’s Quintet was composed in the years 1878-9 and was dedicated to Saint-Saëns. Its tone is ardent and its harmonic structure is generous. The writing for piano is typical of this composer, being technically demanding not so much in terms of sheer virtuosity but rather in the frequent awkwardness of the intervals and the alteration of what might have been straightforward figurations by the injection of unexpected chromatics. Franck was a devotee of cyclic architecture, and in this work he followed this procedure with the confidence born of experience. As a result the quintet strikes home as a convincing unity, in spite of its unashamed emotionalism and broad dramatic scope.
The Medici String Quartet was widely regarded as one of Britain's leading international ensembles, having appeared to critical acclaim in over thirty countries across five continents. It was formed in 1971 and somewhat disbanded in 2007 when Paul Robertson the founder and leader of the quartet for over forty years became seriously ill. This reissue from the Quartet’s Nimbus recordings made in the 1980s join their other releases including the Beethoven Complete String Quartets (NI1785), and works by Janáček & Fauré (NI5379) and Smetana & Debussy (NI5389).
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