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Schumann - Piano Quartet, Piano Quintet | Harmonia Mundi HMC902122

Schumann - Piano Quartet, Piano Quintet

Label: Harmonia Mundi

Cat No: HMC902122

Barcode: 3149020212226

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Chamber

Release Date: 7th May 2012

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Contents

Artists

Alexander Melnikov (piano)
Jerusalem Quartet

Works

Schumann, Robert

Piano Quartet in E flat major, op.47
Piano Quintet in E flat major, op.44

Artists

Alexander Melnikov (piano)
Jerusalem Quartet

About

The Piano Quintet Op.44 and Piano Quartet Op.47 date from a brief period during which Schumann focused his attention intensively on chamber music (between June 1842 and January 1843). These works underline his wish to escape from the solo piano, now ‘too restricted’ for his overflowing imagination, as he told Clara.

The Quintet, which made a powerful impression on Wagner, is probably one of his most sophisticated works, into which Schumann poured all the creative energy he derived from meticulous examination of similar works by his predecessors, especially Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Schubert.

Alexander Melnikov joins the Jerusalem Quartet, nominated for a 3rd BBC Music Magazine Award in 2012.

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