Bruckner & Zemlinksy: String Quintets

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One of the joys of [this] recording is how alert these players are to instrumental colour, and how clearly but unfussily the inner parts come through…without ever losing a sense of forward movement,... — Gramophone Magazine, December 2016 More…

Release Date: 29th Jul 2016
Catalogue No: AVI8553348
Label: Avi Music
Length: 69 minutes

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Zemlinsky: String Quintet in D Minor, o.O.

Work length17:50

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Bartholdy Quintet
Recorded: 2014

I. Allegro

Track length12:46

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II. Prestissimo (mit Humor)

Track length5:04

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Bruckner: String Quintet in F major

Work length41:55

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Bartholdy Quintet
Recorded: 2014

I. Gemässigt

Track length12:19

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II. Scherzo. Schnell

Track length7:29

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III. Adagio

Track length13:37

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IV. Finale. Lebhaft bewegt

Track length8:30

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Bruckner: Intermezzo for String Quintet in D minor

Work length9:16

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Bartholdy Quintet
Recorded: 2014

Intermezzo für String Quintet in D Minor, WAB 113

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Rarities in String Quintet format.

Very few permanent ensembles of five string performers can be found on today’s chamber music scene, despite the fact that the string quintet genre features a number of beautiful works by the likes of Mozart, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, and Dvořák. The Bartholdy Quintet (Ulf Schneider and Anke Dill, violins, Volker Jacobsen and Barbara Westphal, violas, and Gustav Rivinius, cello) has been devoting itself to this wonderful sector of classical chamber music eversince it was founded in 2009.

With its début CD featuring Alexander von Zemlinsky’s Two Movements for String Quintet and Anton Bruckner’s Quintet in F Major, the ensemble is fulfilling its desire to make relatively rare works in the genre known to a wider audience. “Long before we went into the recording studio, we had already been working intensely on these two pieces; we performed them often in public, with much pleasure”, recalls first violinist Ulf Schneider. For the quintet this specific pairing of works “emerged organically”. Each one of them represents a one-time event in the composers’ respective output. Although written relatively close together toward the close of the 19th century, they still obviously represent different phases in the creative lives of Bruckner, on the one hand, and Zemlinsky, on the other.

“Each one of these works is outstanding in its own right: the symphonic dimension in Bruckner’s music, and Zemlinsky’s quite unusual work with a virtuoso final movement. Moreover, apart from such unique compositional traits, each of the composers had something very personal to say. That is what fascinates us the most – and as we have gone on performing them in concert over the years, we have come to love these two quintets. Their inclusion as the two main works on our first CD as a permanent string quintet was thus a matter of course.”

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December 2016

One of the joys of [this] recording is how alert these players are to instrumental colour, and how clearly but unfussily the inner parts come through…without ever losing a sense of forward movement, they open up real space and atmosphere around this glorious music…warm sound complements a rewarding recorded debut: thoroughly worth hearing

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