Schumann: Piano Quartets / Dvořák Piano Quartet
Details
- Composer
- Robert Schumann
- Artist
- Dvorak Piano Quartet
- Format
- CD
- Label
- Supraphon
- Released
- May 06, 2022
- Catalog #
- SU4305-2
- UPC
- 099925430528
About
Robert Schumann, a versatile, well-educated young artist destined for great things, a man whose music has always amazed with its extent and profundity ... and also a person of delicate psyche, which many a time led him to the very border between life and death.
He composed the Piano Quartet in C minor, his first piece of this ilk, at the age of 18, and although, notwithstanding his original intention, he would never remake it into a symphony, he still had it on his mind some 20 years later: “I vividly recollect a passage in one of my works (1828), which I thought was romantic, with a spirit different to that of old music that appeared to me as though opening up a new poetic life.”
The Piano Quartet in E flat major, Op. 47, already attests to Schumann’s compositional mastery, with its idiom inspired by Bach and Beethoven yet speaking in a clearly singular language. The 1853 Märchenerzählungen (Fairy Tale Narrations), was one of the composer’s last happy creative upswings, written shortly before he attempted suicide by jumping from a bridge into the river Rhine with the aim to put an end to his unbearable mental torment. The Dvorák Piano Quartet’s album spans the entire arch of Schumann’s work: the beginning, the peak and the end. Just like all his music, it shows how immense beauty is often close to pain and suffering. Immense beauty and anguish of the soul in Schumann’s chamber music.
Tracklist 12 tracks
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1 I. Allegro molto affettuoso 14:24
- Track
- 1
- Title
- I. Allegro molto affettuoso
- Duration
- 14:24
- Composer
- Robert Schumann
- Ensemble
- Dvořák Piano Quartet
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2 II. Minuetto: Presto 04:09
- Track
- 2
- Title
- II. Minuetto: Presto
- Duration
- 04:09
- Composer
- Robert Schumann
- Ensemble
- Dvořák Piano Quartet
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3 III. Andante 06:48
- Track
- 3
- Title
- III. Andante
- Duration
- 06:48
- Composer
- Robert Schumann
- Ensemble
- Dvořák Piano Quartet
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4 IV. Allegro giusto. Presto 08:22
- Track
- 4
- Title
- IV. Allegro giusto. Presto
- Duration
- 08:22
- Composer
- Robert Schumann
- Ensemble
- Dvořák Piano Quartet
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5 I. Lebhaft, nicht zu schnell 03:17
- Track
- 5
- Title
- I. Lebhaft, nicht zu schnell
- Duration
- 03:17
- Composer
- Robert Schumann
- Performer
- Štepán Pražák, Petr Verner, Slávka Pěchočová
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6 II. Lebhaft und sehr markiert 03:03
- Track
- 6
- Title
- II. Lebhaft und sehr markiert
- Duration
- 03:03
- Composer
- Robert Schumann
- Performer
- Štepán Pražák, Petr Verner, Slávka Pěchočová
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7 III. Ruhiges Tempo, mit zartem Ausdruck 04:07
- Track
- 7
- Title
- III. Ruhiges Tempo, mit zartem Ausdruck
- Duration
- 04:07
- Composer
- Robert Schumann
- Performer
- Štepán Pražák, Petr Verner, Slávka Pěchočová
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8 IV. Lebhaft, sehr markiert 04:28
- Track
- 8
- Title
- IV. Lebhaft, sehr markiert
- Duration
- 04:28
- Composer
- Robert Schumann
- Performer
- Štepán Pražák, Petr Verner, Slávka Pěchočová
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9 I. Sostenuto assai - Allegro ma non troppo 09:06
- Track
- 9
- Title
- I. Sostenuto assai - Allegro ma non troppo
- Duration
- 09:06
- Composer
- Robert Schumann
- Ensemble
- Dvořák Piano Quartet
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10 II. Scherzo: Molto vivace 03:39
- Track
- 10
- Title
- II. Scherzo: Molto vivace
- Duration
- 03:39
- Composer
- Robert Schumann
- Ensemble
- Dvořák Piano Quartet
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11 III. Andante cantabile 07:22
- Track
- 11
- Title
- III. Andante cantabile
- Duration
- 07:22
- Composer
- Robert Schumann
- Ensemble
- Dvořák Piano Quartet
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12 IV. Finale: Vivace 07:54
- Track
- 12
- Title
- IV. Finale: Vivace
- Duration
- 07:54
- Composer
- Robert Schumann
- Ensemble
- Dvořák Piano Quartet