Release Date: 1992-10-28, Audio CD, Chandos

Release Date: 2003-01-14, Audio CD, Dutton Labs UK

Grading: advanced (more musically challenging, shifting and more complex rhythms, more difficult key signatures, more advanced bowings and techniques, suitable for someone with fairly extensive playing ability) Staff Recommended: "This dramatic and exciting piece is a real crowd pleaser! Perhaps better known for his piano and vocal output, this is some of Robert Schumann's best writing for strings. This piece balances youthful exuberance with the maturity and intensity you expect from a master composer like Schumann." - Dan Plonka, Violist and Shar Apprentice

Artur Rubinstein was a youthful 84 when he sat down with the Guarneri players in the spring of 1971 for this recording of the Dvorák quintet. His lovely tone and lively phrasing, the clarity of the textures that emerged under his hands, and, most of all, the instinct he possessed for the singing line all proved infectious and spurred his colleagues to one of their best efforts on record. A year later, they were back in the studio to record the quartet, turning in a smooth, animated performance notable for its light touch and elegant phrasing. These two old-fashioned, highly expressive readings make a wonderful combination. The sound, while not the best, has good presence. --Ted Libbey

Release Date: 2000-05-23, Audio CD, EMI Records

Release Date: 1992-10-28, Audio CD, Chandos

For their second Virgin Classics release the members of the Quatuor Ebene turn from the native French repertoire of their first release (Debussy, Ravel, Fauré) to music firmly in the Austro- German tradition: Brahms's first string quartet and first piano quartet. Joining them for the quintet is acclaimed Japanese pianist Akiko Yamamoto. Following a London performance from 2006, the Independent reported on this artistic partnership: "This talented group wound up their concert with a brilliant performance of Brahms's Piano Quintet in F Minor, with the piano acting as a firm anchor, while the strings sang their hearts out. Come back soon." "In the space of just a few years [the Quatuor Ebene] has made its way to become one of the world's top quartets. Beyond youthful French charm, the... Less

Piano Quintet In e-flat Major, Op. 44 For string quartet and piano By Robert Schumann Published by International Music Company

Tracks 1. - 3. are String Quartet in E minor, Op. 83. Tracks 4. - 6. are Piano Quintet in A minor, Op. 84.

Quintet in A minor for Piano & Strings. Includes score and set of parts for Violin 1 and 2, Viola and Cello.

Ben Johnston’s (b. 1926) music has reached a wide and diverse audience, both at home and abroad, without compromising its high seriousness or its depth of philosophic purpose. His music shows the confluence of several traditions of music-making that have flourished within the United States. In the 1950s his output was characterized by the neoclassicism of his teacher Darius Milhaud. In the 1960s he explored serial techniques and, at the end of the decade, indeterminacy. From 1960 onward the overriding technical preoccupation of his music has been its use of just intonation, the tuning system of the music of ancient cultures as well as that of many living traditions worldwide. Johnston is a pioneer in the use of microtones and non-tempered tuning, rationalizing and going beyond Harry... Less

Features:A book of accompaniments for use in the studio or at home to supply harmonies in connection with Teaching Little Fingers to Play. This will add immeasurably to the musical interest of the tiny tunes and will make them sound quite grown-up! The advantage is obvious. Table of Contents: Publisher: Willis Composer: John Thompson Catalog Number: 00412228 Pages: 31  

Designed as a companion volume to the author's earlier study, The Piano Trio, this book surveys the development of the piano quartet and quintet from their beginnings in the mid-eighteenth century to the present day. Developments during the first four decades of the nineteenth century resulted not only in Schubert's renowned Trout Quintet, but also in works of much brilliance by Dussek, Hummel, Weber, and others in which the piano predominates in a concerto-like role. Subsequently, Schumann's epoch-making quintet of 1842 initiated a broadly "symphonic" style, with large-scale structures and closely integrated textures, which was taken up by many later composers, including Brahms, Dvorak, Cesar Franck, Faure, and Elgar. The author also examines the numerous changes in the nature of the... Less

Ben Johnston’s (b. 1926) music has reached a wide and diverse audience, both at home and abroad, without compromising its high seriousness or its depth of philosophic purpose. His music shows the confluence of several traditions of music-making that have flourished within the United States. In the 1950s his output was characterized by the neoclassicism of his teacher Darius Milhaud. In the 1960s he explored serial techniques and, at the end of the decade, indeterminacy. From 1960 onward the overriding technical preoccupation of his music has been its use of just intonation, the tuning system of the music of ancient cultures as well as that of many living traditions worldwide. Johnston is a pioneer in the use of microtones and non-tempered tuning, rationalizing and going beyond Harry... Less

A quartet in three movements for two violins, viola and cello: 1 - Allegro moderato 2 - Piacevole (poco andante) 3 - Allegro molto.

Piano Quintet (1941)

Release Date: 2000-09-12, Audio CD, Le Chant Du Monde Fr

Release Date: 2011-02-22, Audio CD, Divox