Description
Title: Piano Quintet – String Quartet No.2
Artist: Shostakovich, D. / Hamelin, Marc-Andre
Label: Hyperion
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 034571179872
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2015-04-14
Number of Discs: 1
It is hard to envisage a more enticing prospect: Shostakovich”s densely woven String Quartet No.2 and his deceptively backward-looking Piano Quintet, performed by the stellar Takács Quartet and Marc-André Hamelin, generously notated by David Fanning, and lovingly recorded by Hyperion”s Simon Eadon and Andrew Keener team. Seventy minutes of post-Revolutionary Russian ecstasy.
Tracks:
1.1 Overture: Moderato Con Moto – Takacs Quartet
1.2 Recitative and Romance: Adagio – Takacs Quartet
1.3 Waltz: Allegro – Takacs Quartet
1.4 Theme and Variations: Adagio – Moderato Con Moto – Allegretto – Allegro Non Troppo – Allegro – Adagio – Takacs Quartet
1.5 Prelude: Lento – Poco Più Mosso – Lento – Marc-Andre Hamelin/Takacs Quartet
1.6 Fugue: Adagio – Marc-Andre Hamelin/Takacs Quartet
1.7 Scherzo: Allegretto – Marc-Andre Hamelin/Takacs Quartet
1.8 Intermezzo: Lento – Marc-Andre Hamelin/Takacs Quartet
1.9 Finale: Allegretto – Marc-Andre Hamelin/Takacs Quartet
