Bax & Bridge: Piano Quintets

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Wass and the Tippett Quartet rise magnificently to [the Bax's] challenges, striking the perfect balance between sheer OTT grandiloquence and intense and genuine feeling...this is a thrilling... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2010, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 1st Nov 2010
Catalogue No: 8572474
Label: Naxos
Length: 68 minutes

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Bax: Piano Quintet in G minor

Work length18:44

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Ashley Wass
Tippett Quartet

I. Passionate and Rebellious (Tempo moderato)

Track length18:44

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Bax: Klavierquintett g-Moll

Work length10:04

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Ashley Wass
Tippett Quartet

II. Lento serioso

Track length10:04

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Bax: Piano Quintet in G minor

Work length12:18

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Ashley Wass
Tippett Quartet

III. Moderate tempo (Tempo moderato) - Allegro vivace - Lento con gran'espressione

Track length12:18

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Bridge: Piano Quintet in D minor

Work length21:00

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$6.45

Ashley Wass
Tippett Quartet

I. Adagio - Allegro moderato - Adagio e sostenuto

Track length11:13

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II. Adagio ma non troppo - Allegro con brio - Adagio ma non troppo

Track length9:47

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Bridge: Klavierquintett d-Moll, H. 49

Work length6:01

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Ashley Wass
Tippett Quartet

III. Allegro energico

Track length6:01

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Recognised as rising stars of their generation, pianist Ashley Wass and the Tippett Quartet join forces to present two contrasting yet equally engaging British piano quintets.

Conceived on a grand, expansive scale and influenced by Celtic music, with all manner of harmonic and instrumental colours exploited to super effect, Arnold Bax’s Quintet is arguably a precursor of his later symphonies.

Frank Bridge’s early work (1904-5, revised 1912) combines his admiration for the music of Fauré with the highly integrated ‘fantasy’ techniques he honed when composing music for the famous Cobbett Prize.

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Christmas 2010

Wass and the Tippett Quartet rise magnificently to [the Bax's] challenges, striking the perfect balance between sheer OTT grandiloquence and intense and genuine feeling...this is a thrilling performance with the authentic all-or-nothing flavour.

January 2011

Confounding the popular view of him as fey rural pastoralist, Bax's Piano Quintet is wonderfully off-the-leash and extreme...The Tippetts choose not to compromise their physical impact, nor Bax's obsessive-compulsive, hard-driven finale...I can't imagine the Bax receiving a more passionate, devoted performance.

January 2011

At 41 minutes the Quintet may be on the long side but it certainly holds the interest throughout, particularly in a fine performance such as this by the Tippett Quartet and Ashley Wass, who obviously relishes the virtuoso element in the piano writing.

16th December 2010

[The Bax] brings the best out of pianist Ashley Wass and the Tippett Quartet, for they attack Bax's huge, teeming first movement with gung-ho intensity that sweeps all before it, and which they sustain right through the work.

29th October 2010

Conceived on a large scale and cunningly wrought, Arnold Bax’s Piano Quintet ...is given a vibrant performance by Ashley Wass and the Tippett Quartet, one that does not shy away from the music’s monumental architecture and density of texture but at the same time brings vitality to its Celtic melodic contours.

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