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The Ames Piano Quartet, the resident chamber music ensemble at Iowa State University, holds a unique position in the chamber music field as one of the few piano quartets in the world. The combination of their lush string sound, blended with the orchestral quality of the piano, produces an exquisite and rare sonority that The Washington Post optly described as "one of the most heavenly combinations of instruments around."
This set, which contains passionate and brilliant interpretations of some of the greatest music in the piano quartet repertoire, embodies all of the releases by the ensemble over the last 20 years on Dorian Recordings, plus a bonus CD of two works that have never before been released on Dorian.
Antonin Dvorak: Piano Quartet No. 1 in D major, Op. 23
I. Allegro moderato
II. Andantino con variazioni
III. Finale: Allegretto scherzando
Antonin Dvorak: Piano Quartet No. 2 in E flat major, Op. 87, B. 162
I. Allegro con fuoco
II. Lento
III. Allegro moderato, grazioso
IV. Finale: Allegro ma non troppo
Gabriel Faure: Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 15
I. Allegro molto moderato
II. Scherzo: Allegro vivo
III. Adagio
IV. Allegro molto
Gabriel Faure: Piano Quartet No. 2 in G minor, Op. 45
I. Allegro molto moderato
II. Allegro molto
III. Adagio non troppo
IV. Adagio molto
Richard Strauss: Piano Quartet in C minor, Op. 13, TrV 137
I. Allegro
II. Scherzo: Presto
III. Andante
IV. Finale: Vivace
Charles-Marie Widor: Piano Quartet in A minor, Op. 66
I. Allegro moderato
II. Adagio
III. Vivace
IV. Allegro ma non troppo
Robert Schumann: Piano Quartet in E flat major, Op. 47
I. Sostenuto assai - Allegro ma non troppo
II. Scherzo: Molto vivace
III. Andante cantabile
IV. Finale: Vivace
Johannes Brahms: Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op. 25
I. Allegro
II. Intermezzo: Allegro ma non troppo - Trio: Animato
III. Andante con moto - Animato
IV. Rondo alla zingarese: Presto - Meno presto - Molto presto
Johannes Brahms: Piano Quartet No. 2 in A major, Op. 26
I. Allegro non troppo
II. Poco adagio
III. Scherzo: Poco allegro - Trio
IV. Finale: Allegro
Johannes Brahms: Piano Quartet No. 3 in C minor, Op. 60
I. Allegro ma non troppo
II. Scherzo: Allegro
III. Andante
IV. Fiinale: Allegro comodo
Paul Juon: Piano Quartet No. 1 in D minor, Op. 37, "Rhapsody"
I. Moderato
II. Allegretto
III. Sostenuto
Sergey Ivanovich Taneyev: Piano Quartet in E major, Op. 20
I. Allegro brillante
II. Adagio piu tosto largo
III. Finale: Allegro molto
Alexander Porfir'yevich Borodin: Knyaz Igor (Prince Igor), Act II: Dance of the Polovtsian Maidens (arr. G. Wilcken)
Knyaz Igor (Prince Igor), Act II: Dance of the Polovtsian Maidens (arr. G. Wilcken)
Josef Suk: Piano Quartet in A minor, Op. 1
I. Allegro appassionato
II. Adagio
III. Allegro con fuoco
Vitezslav Novak: Piano Quartet in C minor, Op. 7
I. Andante
II. Scherzino: Allegretto comodo
III. Rondo: Allegro
Bohuslav Martinu: Piano Quartet No. 1, H. 287
I. Poco Allegro
II. Adagio
III. Allegretto poco moderato
Ernest Chausson: Piano Quartet in A major, Op. 30
I. Anime
II. Tres calme
III. Simple et sans hate
IV. Anime
Camille Saint-Saens: Piano Quartet in B flat major, Op. 41
I. Allegretto
II. Andante maestoso ma con moto
III. Poco allegro piu tosto moderato - Allegro non troppo - Allegro - Molto allegro - Presto - Prestissimo
IV. Allegro - Mouvement du premier morceau - Allegro non troppo - Tempo primo
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