Dvořák: Quintets Op. 81 & 97
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Dvořák: Quintets Op. 81 & 97
Pavel Haas Quartet, with Boris Giltburg (piano), & Pavel Nikl (viola)
[ Supraphon / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 20 October 2017
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Seven years after they triumphed with Dvořák's quartets (SU 4038-2, op. 96 "American" and op. 106 - Gramophone Award "Recording of the Year"), Pavel Haas Quartet are back to Dvořák. For the occasion of recording his quintets, they have invited two guests: the pianist Boris Giltburg (winner of 2013 Queen Elizabeth Competition), as well as one of the PHQ founding members, violist Pavel Nikl. Antonín Dvořák composed his Piano Quintet No. 2 while staying at his beloved summer house in Vysoká in the late summer of 1887. The renowned critic Eduard Hanslick responded to its performance in Vienna enthusiastically: "It is one of his most beautiful works. A genuine Dvořák." The String Quintet op. 97 , albeit only six years younger, presents a completely "different Dvořák". After the Symphony from the New World and the "American" quartet, the string quintet is the composer's third work written in America. Besides drawing inspiration from the music of the Native American tribe of the Iroquois which he heard in Spillville in the summer of 1893, he built the third movement around a theme that he had previously considered using in a proposal for a new American anthem. And Hanslick's testimonial? "This is probably the simplest, most natural and happiest music composed since Haydn's times. The ear enjoys it with an easy-going attitude and the spirit is not bored for a single moment." Pavel Haas Quartet is at home in Dvořák's music - to quote the Sunday Times, "In this repertoire, they are simply matchless today."
Pavel Haas Quartet: Reaching the heart of Dvořák
Gramophone Award WINNER 2018 - Chamber
"The Pavel Haas Quartet, joined by violist Pavel Nikl, certainly capture his reflective mood in the introduction to the first movement, but they also secure a sure-footed balance between tenderness and giddy celebration. Equally impressive is the scherzo in which the exuberant ‚hoedown' of the main section contrasts with a magically beautiful performance of the trio. Throughout the slow movement, the playing of the solo lines is captivating and the finale is both sophisticated in delivery while communicating irrepressible energy." BBC Music Magazine, November 2017 - Recording of the month
"It is the happiest of reunions and their sense of shared purpose is evident from the very start...Giltburg is likewise completely at one with the quartet, who set off full of sighing pathos...From the off, they make the music their own...the sense of story-telling is very persuasive...Another triumphant addition to the Pavel Haas's already Award-laden discography." Gramophone Editor's Choice November 2017
"the Czech disc proposes the Russian-born Giltburg, a virtuoso "soloist" in the Piano Quintet, like Sviatoslav Richter before him. He clearly feels this dancing, soulful music as personally as his Czech colleagues in an exhilarating performance...This life-enhancing music is a tonic" Sunday Times
Tracks:
Piano Quintet No. 2 in A Major op. 81 (1887),
String Quintet in E-Flat Major op. 97 (1893)
