Rubinstein: Piano Quartets

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this is an impassioned, convincing first recording. — BBC Music Magazine, October 2014, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 28th Apr 2014
Catalogue No: CDA68018
Label: Hyperion
Length: 76 minutes

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Rubinstein, A: Piano Quartet in F major, Op. 55bis

Work length37:10

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Leslie Howard (piano), Rita Manning (violin), Morgan Goff (viola), Justin Pearson (cello)

I. Allegro non troppo

Track length10:49

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II. Scherzo: Allegro assai

Track length6:42

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III. Andante con moto

Track length9:21

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IV. Allegro appassionato

Track length10:18

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Rubinstein, A: Piano Quartet in C major, Op. 66

Work length39:13

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Leslie Howard (piano), Rita Manning (violin), Morgan Goff (viola), Justin Pearson (cello)

I. Allegro moderato

Track length13:16

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II. Allegro vivace

Track length5:06

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III. Andante assai

Track length11:01

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IV. Allegro non troppo ma con fuoco

Track length9:50

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Pianist Leslie Howard is acclaimed as ‘a virtuoso in the true Romantic style with its emphasis on musicality as much as bravura’ (The Guardian). He is joined here by three of his frequent string collaborators for two forgotten masterpieces of the Russian nineteenth-century chamber music tradition by renowned pianist-composer Anton Rubinstein.

In recent years there has been something of a revival of Rubinstein’s music, but previously it had fallen into total neglect outside Russia from around the early 1920s. However in his day Rubinstein was a hugely important figure: the first international professional Russian composer. His influence is almost incalculably vast on the succeeding generations of Russians who benefited from his grasp of Western musical forms allied to an excellence of craftsmanship and an easy melodic fluency. Although a thoroughly cosmopolitan composer, Rubinstein could also incorporate the occasional Russian folk-song or an echo of Russian church music.

The Piano Quartet in F major was dedicated to Berthold Damcke, the music critic who had championed Rubinstein during the late 1850s in the public argument fomented by the composer and critic Aleksandr Serov, whose printed taunts of Rubinstein and his non-nationalistic style seem largely to have been fuelled by anti-Semitism. The Piano Quartet in C major was one of Rubinstein’s most popular works in its day.

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October 2014

this is an impassioned, convincing first recording.

1st May 2014

the quartets are pleasant, yet unremarkable works in an early Romantic idiom that is somewhere between Mendelssohn and Schumann.

2nd May 2014

The playing is especially potent in the dramatic sweep of the C major, in which Rubinstein’s romantic creative urge is all the more confident, complementing Lisztian passion and bravura with colour and harmonic dexterity that lend it individuality.

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