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Dvorak: "American" Quartet & Piano Quintet / Yang, Alexander String Quartet
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Dvorak: "American" Quartet & Piano Quintet / Yang, Alexander String Quartet

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Composer
DVORAK, ANTONIN
Artist
Yang
Format
CD
Label
Foghorn Classics
Released
Sep 06, 2019
Catalog #
FCL2020
UPC
700871202021

About

With their latest release of “Locale” from Foghorn Classics, the Alexander String Quartet presents brand new accounts of two of Antonín Dvorák’s most enduringly popular chamber works. The “American” String Quartet in F Major, Op. 96 from 1893 was written during the composer’s extended retreat from New York City to the rural “Czech” community of Spillville, on the Turkey River in northeastern Iowa. The ASQ plumbs the rich and reflective “outdoor” nuances of this exquisitely crafted master­piece. And the miraculous pianist Joyce Yang joins the Alexanders once again for this recording of the jubilant Piano Quintet in A Major, Op. 81 from 1887, composed at the composer’s country home amidst Bohemia’s woods and fields in Vysoka, just a little south of Prague. These two works are among the composer’s most expressively articulate chamber works. Both are profoundly influenced by their geographic “locale” and are, perhaps, exemplars of the sophisticated duality of the transatlantic experience of the late 19th century, embracing the nostalgia of the traditional bucolic ideal and the urbane sophistication of the imminent new age. Eric Bromberger’s accompanying notes and commentary provide illuminating musical and historical context, not least some of Dvorak’s own thoughts on the American-ness of his quartet. This is the third release on Foghorn Classics celebrating the inimitable collaboration between the Alexanders and Yang. Earlier releases in­­clude the Brahms and Schumann Quintets and, most recently, the Mozart Piano Quartets. Their combined concert repertoire, among several other standard and modern works, now includes a brilliant new and much-lauded quintet from the American composer Samuel Carl Adams, commissioned to help celebrate a decade of joyful collaborative music-making.

Tracklist 8 tracks

  1. 1 I. Allegro ma non troppo 09:36
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Allegro ma non troppo
    Duration
    09:36
    Composer
    Antonín Dvořák
    Ensemble
    Alexander String Quartet
  2. 2 II. Lento 06:30
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Lento
    Duration
    06:30
    Composer
    Antonín Dvořák
    Ensemble
    Alexander String Quartet
  3. 3 III. Molto vivace 04:02
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Molto vivace
    Duration
    04:02
    Composer
    Antonín Dvořák
    Ensemble
    Alexander String Quartet
  4. 4 IV. Finale: Vivace ma non troppo 05:19
    Track
    4
    Title
    IV. Finale: Vivace ma non troppo
    Duration
    05:19
    Composer
    Antonín Dvořák
    Ensemble
    Alexander String Quartet
  5. 5 I. Allegro ma non tanto 14:32
    Track
    5
    Title
    I. Allegro ma non tanto
    Duration
    14:32
    Composer
    Antonín Dvořák
    Performer
    Joyce Yang
    Ensemble
    Alexander String Quartet
  6. 6 II. Dumka: Andante con moto 13:45
    Track
    6
    Title
    II. Dumka: Andante con moto
    Duration
    13:45
    Composer
    Antonín Dvořák
    Performer
    Joyce Yang
    Ensemble
    Alexander String Quartet
  7. 7 III. Scherzo (Furiant): Molto vivace 04:28
    Track
    7
    Title
    III. Scherzo (Furiant): Molto vivace
    Duration
    04:28
    Composer
    Antonín Dvořák
    Performer
    Joyce Yang
    Ensemble
    Alexander String Quartet
  8. 8 IV. Finale: Allegro 08:10
    Track
    8
    Title
    IV. Finale: Allegro
    Duration
    08:10
    Composer
    Antonín Dvořák
    Performer
    Joyce Yang
    Ensemble
    Alexander String Quartet