String Quartet in D major / Piano Quintet in F minor
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FRANCK
String Quartet in D major / Piano Quintet in F minor
Cristina Ortiz (piano) / Fine Arts Quartet
[ Naxos / CD ]
Release Date: Tuesday 15 December 2009
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"The Fine Arts Quartet… are at their very best in both slow movements, with Christina Ortiz matching their ebb and flow perfectly in the Quintet." BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2009 ****
Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine Feb 2010
Following the release of their highly praised Naxos recording of Fauré's Piano Quintets (8.570938)-'warmly expressive, their phrasing generous and intense' (The Guardian)-Cristina Ortiz and the Fine Arts Quartet again join forces for this recording of Franck's Piano Quintet, the extraordinary emotional range of which is unified by the tight thematic relationships typical of the composer's 'cyclic' structuring. His String Quartet, composed ten years later, is a summit of Franck's achievement, also cyclically conceived and revealing his admiration of Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Brahms.
Tracks:
String Quartet in D major, M. 9
Piano Quintet in F minor, M. 7
