Gottlieb Wallisch, Enso String Quartet - Dohnányi: Piano Quintets Nos. 1 & 2 (2014)

Tracklist

01. Piano Quintet No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 1: I. Allegro
02. Piano Quintet No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 1: II. Scherzo. Allegro vivace
03. Piano Quintet No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 1: III. Adagio, quasi andante
04. Piano Quintet No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 1: IV. Finale. Allegro animato
05. Piano Quintet No. 2 in E-Flat Minor, Op. 26: I. Allegro non troppo
06. Piano Quintet No. 2 in E-Flat Minor, Op. 26: II. Intermezzo. Allegretto
07. Piano Quintet No. 2 in E-Flat Minor, Op. 26: III. Moderato

Few composers have achieved greater success with their first published composition than Ernő Dohnányi with his Piano Quintet in C minor, Op. 1. Written in 1895 and praised highly by Brahms, who is believed to have organised a Viennese performance shortly afterwards, it heralded the emergence of a major new talent. The harmonic ambiguity of the 1914 Piano Quintet in E flat minor points to the composer’s awareness of ongoing developments in European music. Still underestimated, it ranks among the most important works of Dohnányi’s ‘middle period’.

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