Dvorak & Price - Piano Quintets | Hyperion CDA68433

Dvorak & Price - Piano Quintets

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Label: Hyperion

Cat No: CDA68433

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Chamber

Release Date: 28th March 2025

Contents

Artists

Marc-Andre Hamelin (piano)
Takacs Quartet

Works

Dvorak, Antonin

Piano Quintet in A major, op.81

Price, Florence

Piano Quintet in A minor

Artists

Marc-Andre Hamelin (piano)
Takacs Quartet

About

The performance Florence Price's Piano Quintet receives on this eagerly awaited new release from the Takács Quartet and Marc-André Hamelin would suggest that it can be only a matter of time before the work rediscovered only in 2009 is as familiar and much-loved as the one by Dvořák with which it shares the album.

Reviews

In some sense, the dumka is at the heart of nearly all of Dvořák’s music. That poetic opposition between melancholy lyricism and rhythmic exuberance is certainly what fuels his Op 81 Piano Quintet – and Marc-André Hamelin and the Takács Quartet make the most of it. ... The Dumka movement itself is exquisite, the slow sections played with refinement and delicacy, highlighting the inventiveness of Dvořák’s textures, while the Un pochettino piů mosso sections tremble like a heart a-flutter, and the Vivace’s rhythmic vitality is positively buoyant. ... Florence Price’s A minor Piano Quintet (composed in the mid-1930s) makes an unusual yet delightful disc-mate. ... this new Hyperion release is pure pleasure in every respect.  Andrew Farach-Colton
Gramophone June 2025
Gramophone Editor's Choice

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