Budapest Quartet play Mendelssohn, Schumann

Recorded live at Washington’s Library of Congress, the highlight here is Rudolf Serkin’s exhilarating contribution to Schumann’s Piano Quintet. Elsewhere, dry acoustics expose some roughness... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2018, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 29th Sep 2017
Catalogue No: PRD250391
Label: Praga

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Mendelssohn: String Quartet No. 3 in D major, Op. 44 No. 1

Live recording 13/11/1953 Library of Congress Washington
Budapest Quartet

Schumann: String Quartet No. 1 in A minor, Op. 41 No. 1

Live recording 5/10/1961 Library of Congress Washington
Budapest Quartet

Schumann: Piano Quintet in E flat major, Op. 44

Recording 13/11/1959 Library of Congress Washington
Rudolf Serkin (piano)
Budapest Quartet

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In the years 1837-42, Mendelssohn was at the height of his humanist glory, concurrently violinist, viola player, pianist, composer, conductor (of the Gewandhaus in Leipzig), still a painter in his all too rare spare time, and a newlywed… "At the moment, everything comes so easily and so nicely under my pen", he wrote, the Opus 44 Quartets with their radiant, virtuoso allegros and slow movements tinged with nostalgia—irresistible ‘songs without words’ for strings. Schumann’s String Quartets and Piano Quintet are considered his finest compositions and major works of 19th-century chamber music. This Op.44 revolutionised the instrumentation and musical character of the piano quintet and established it as a quintessentially romantic genre.

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January 2018

Recorded live at Washington’s Library of Congress, the highlight here is Rudolf Serkin’s exhilarating contribution to Schumann’s Piano Quintet. Elsewhere, dry acoustics expose some roughness in the Budapest Quartet’s playing.

Budapest Quartet play Mendelssohn, Schumann

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