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Schumann & Brahms: Chamber Music

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Details

Composer
BRAHMS SCHUMANN
Artist
Sudbin, Avanesyan, Brovtsyn, Poppen, Chaushian
Format
SACD
Label
BIS
Released
Jan 05, 2018
Catalog #
BIS-2258
UPC
7318599922584

About

Robert Schumann composed the Op. 47 Piano Quartet in E flat major in his so-called ‘chamber music year’ of 1842, immediately after finishing the famous piano quintet in the same key. Despite the proximity in time and tonality, there are clear differences between the two works: the quintet tends more towards a concertante dialogue between the piano and string quartet while the quartet favours equality between the four parts – even if the cello has something of a leading role among the strings. Some ten years later, the young Johannes Brahms was entrusted with the task of making a piano four-hands arrangement of the quartet, and it is quite possible that this contact with Schumann’s chamber music for piano and strings opened his eyes to the potential of the genre. In any case, with its almost inexhaustible motivic abundance and captivating energy Brahms’s Piano Quintet in F minor, Op.34, is one of the most often performed works for these forces. Completed in 1864 it had actually started off as a string quintet which Brahms first reworked as a sonata for two pianos before arriving at the final scoring. Performing these two central works in 19th century chamber music is Yevgeny Sudbin and an international group of eminent string players consisting of violinists Hrachya Avanesyan and Boris Brovtsyn, violist Diemut Poppen and cellist Alexander Chaushian.

REVIEW:

There’s no lack of personalities on display here. Here we have a band of equals. The players are thrillingly daring in the Scherzo of the Schumann, taken at breakneck tempo with fizzing accents, but though you suspect that Sudbin is the ringleader here, there’s plenty of give and take within the group.

– Gramophone

Tracklist 8 tracks

  1. 1 I. Sostenuto assai - Allegro ma non troppo 08:36
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Sostenuto assai - Allegro ma non troppo
    Duration
    08:36
    Composer
    Robert Schumann
    Performer
    Hrachya Avanesyan, Diemut Poppen, Alexander Chaushian, Yevgeny Sudbin
  2. 2 II. Scherzo: Molto vivace 03:16
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Scherzo: Molto vivace
    Duration
    03:16
    Composer
    Robert Schumann
    Performer
    Hrachya Avanesyan, Diemut Poppen, Alexander Chaushian, Yevgeny Sudbin
  3. 3 III. Andante cantabile 05:59
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Andante cantabile
    Duration
    05:59
    Composer
    Robert Schumann
    Performer
    Hrachya Avanesyan, Diemut Poppen, Alexander Chaushian, Yevgeny Sudbin
  4. 4 IV. Finale: Vivace 07:29
    Track
    4
    Title
    IV. Finale: Vivace
    Duration
    07:29
    Composer
    Robert Schumann
    Performer
    Hrachya Avanesyan, Diemut Poppen, Alexander Chaushian, Yevgeny Sudbin
  5. 5 I. Allegro non troppo 13:45
    Track
    5
    Title
    I. Allegro non troppo
    Duration
    13:45
    Composer
    Johannes Brahms
    Performer
    Boris Brovtsyn, Hrachya Avanesyan, Diemut Poppen, Alexander Chaushian, Yevgeny Sudbin
  6. 6 II. Andante un poco adagio 07:31
    Track
    6
    Title
    II. Andante un poco adagio
    Duration
    07:31
    Composer
    Johannes Brahms
    Performer
    Boris Brovtsyn, Hrachya Avanesyan, Diemut Poppen, Alexander Chaushian, Yevgeny Sudbin
  7. 7 III. Scherzo: Allegro 06:45
    Track
    7
    Title
    III. Scherzo: Allegro
    Duration
    06:45
    Composer
    Johannes Brahms
    Performer
    Boris Brovtsyn, Hrachya Avanesyan, Diemut Poppen, Alexander Chaushian, Yevgeny Sudbin
  8. 8 IV. Finale: Poco sostenuto - Allegro non troppo 10:01
    Track
    8
    Title
    IV. Finale: Poco sostenuto - Allegro non troppo
    Duration
    10:01
    Composer
    Johannes Brahms
    Performer
    Boris Brovtsyn, Hrachya Avanesyan, Diemut Poppen, Alexander Chaushian, Yevgeny Sudbin