{"product_id":"schumann-piano-quartets-previn-kim-ohyama-hoffman-97226","title":"Schumann: Piano Quartets \/ Previn, Kim, Ohyama, Hoffman","description":"The special interest here is the ''world premiere recording'' of Schumann's first Piano Quartet in C minor, completed in March, 1829, when he was still only 18. Though his Leipzig piano teacher, Friedrich Wieck, and other discerning music-loving friends found much in the work to praise after a domestic performance by Schumann and some fellow-students, he himself lost faith in it and the score remained unpublished until the Schumann scholar, Wolfgang Boetticher, prepared a performing edition in 1979. The gem of the four movements is the nimble Minuetto, with a trio (its leading theme reappears in the fourth of his Op. 4 Intermezzos for solo piano) subsequently picked out by him as the moment when he first recognized himself as a ''romantic... departing from the former musical style''. The tenderly spun Andante is winning too, and even though the Beethoven-cum-Schubert-inspired faster flanking movements (the last dominated by an obsessively reiterated dotted rhythm) need—and I think in this performance receive—some pruning, both have an irresistible youthful elan. Andre Previn and his three colleagues cannot be over-praised for coming to the Quartet's rescue with such immediacy and warmth of sympathy. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Though never enjoying the popularity of the Piano Quintet, the E flat Piano Quartet, written some 13 years after the C minor work, has rarely lacked dedicated protagonists. These players hold their own with them all, especially the very lively pianist with his keen ear for textural clarity.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e -- Joan Chissell, Gramophone [5\/1993]\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"RCA","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":46027734548714,"sku":"090266138425","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0614\/3423\/3066\/files\/3894994.jpg?v=1778277112","url":"https:\/\/arkivmusic.com\/products\/schumann-piano-quartets-previn-kim-ohyama-hoffman-97226","provider":"ArkivMusic","version":"1.0","type":"link"}