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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 a breakneck tempo with fizzing accents,... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2018 More…

Release Date: 29th Dec 2017
Catalogue No: BIS2258
Label: BIS
Length: 64 minutes

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9th December 2017

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Schumann: Piano Quartet in E flat major, Op. 47

Work length25:39

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Hrachya Avanesyan (violin), Diemut Poppen (viola), Alexander Chaushian (cello), Yevgeny Sudbin (piano)
Recorded: May 2016
Recording Venue: The Shoe Factory, Nicosia, Cyprus

I. Sostenuto assai - Allegro ma non troppo

Track length8:40

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II. Scherzo. Molto vivace

Track length3:18

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III. Andante cantabile

Track length6:01

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IV. Finale. Vivace

Track length7:40

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Brahms: Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34

Work length38:49

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Boris Brovtsyn (violin), Hrachya Avanesyan (violin), Diemut Poppen (viola), Alexander Chaushian (cello), Yevgeny Sudbin (piano)
Recorded: May 2016
Recording Venue: The Shoe Factory, Nicosia, Cyprus

I. Allegro non troppo

Track length13:54

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II. Andante un poco adagio

Track length7:36

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III. Scherzo. Allegro

Track length6:49

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IV. Finale. Poco sostenuto - Allegro non troppo

Track length10:30

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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.

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February 2018

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 a 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.

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