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Dvorak: Quintets, Op. 81 & 97 / Giltburg, Nikl, Pavel Haas Quartet

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Composer
DVORAK, ANTONÍN
Artist
Giltburg, Nikl
Format
CD
Label
Supraphon
Released
Oct 20, 2017
Catalog #
SU4195-2
UPC
099925419523

About



2018 Gramophone Magazine Chamber Recording of the Year

Seven years after they triumphed with Dvorák’s quartets, Pavel Haas Quartet are back to Dvorák. For the occasion of recording his quintets, they have invited two guests: the pianist Boris Giltburg (winner of 2013 Queen Elizabeth Competition), as well as one of the PHQ founding members, violist Pavel Nikl. Antonín Dvorák composed his Piano Quintet No. 2 while staying at his beloved summer house in Vysoká in the late summer of 1887. The renowned critic Eduard Hanslick responded to its performance in Vienna enthusiastically: "It is one of his most beautiful works. A genuine Dvorák.“ The String Quintet op. 97, albeit only six years younger, presents a completely "different Dvorák“. After the Symphony from the New World and the “American” quartet, the string quintet is the composer’s third work written in America. Besides drawing inspiration from the music of the Native American tribe of the Iroquois which he heard in Spillville in the summer of 1893, he built the third movement around a theme that he had previously considered using in a proposal for a new American anthem. And Hanslick’s testimonial? "This is probably the simplest, most natural and happiest music composed since Haydn’s times. The ear enjoys it with an easy-going attitude and the spirit is not bored for a single moment.“ Pavel Haas Quartet is at home in Dvorák’s music – to quote the Sunday Times, "In this repertoire, they are simply matchless today.“

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REVIEW:

It is the happiest of reunions and their sense of shared purpose is evident from the very start. Giltburg is completely at one with the quartet, who set off full of sighing pathos. From the off, they make the music their own; their sense of story-telling is very persuasive. Another triumphant addition to the Pavel Haas’s already Award-laden discography.

– Gramophone

Tracklist 8 tracks

  1. 1 I. Allegro ma non tanto 14:54
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Allegro ma non tanto
    Duration
    14:54
    Composer
    Antonín Dvořák
    Performer
    Boris Giltburg
    Ensemble
    Pavel Haas Quartet
  2. 2 II. Dumka: Andante con moto 14:11
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Dumka: Andante con moto
    Duration
    14:11
    Composer
    Antonín Dvořák
    Performer
    Boris Giltburg
    Ensemble
    Pavel Haas Quartet
  3. 3 III. Scherzo (Furiant): Molto vivace 04:20
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Scherzo (Furiant): Molto vivace
    Duration
    04:20
    Composer
    Antonín Dvořák
    Performer
    Boris Giltburg
    Ensemble
    Pavel Haas Quartet
  4. 4 IV. Finale: Allegro 08:18
    Track
    4
    Title
    IV. Finale: Allegro
    Duration
    08:18
    Composer
    Antonín Dvořák
    Performer
    Boris Giltburg
    Ensemble
    Pavel Haas Quartet
  5. 5 I. Allegro non tanto 09:06
    Track
    5
    Title
    I. Allegro non tanto
    Duration
    09:06
    Composer
    Antonín Dvořák
    Performer
    Pavel Nikl
    Ensemble
    Pavel Haas Quartet
  6. 6 II. Allegro vivo 05:44
    Track
    6
    Title
    II. Allegro vivo
    Duration
    05:44
    Composer
    Antonín Dvořák
    Performer
    Pavel Nikl
    Ensemble
    Pavel Haas Quartet
  7. 7 III. Larghetto 09:45
    Track
    7
    Title
    III. Larghetto
    Duration
    09:45
    Composer
    Antonín Dvořák
    Performer
    Pavel Nikl
    Ensemble
    Pavel Haas Quartet
  8. 8 IV. Finale: Allegro giusto 07:48
    Track
    8
    Title
    IV. Finale: Allegro giusto
    Duration
    07:48
    Composer
    Antonín Dvořák
    Performer
    Pavel Nikl
    Ensemble
    Pavel Haas Quartet