Mozart, Mendelssohn, Vaughan Williams
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Wolfgang A. Mozart / Piano Quartet No. 2 in E-flat major, K. 493 (1786)
Felix Mendelssohn / String Quintet No. 2 in B-flat major, Op. 87 (1845)
Ralph Vaughan Williams / Piano Quintet in C minor (1903–05)
Jennifer Frautschi, violin; Alyssa Wang, violin; Cara Pogossian; Marcus Thompson, viola; Raman Ramakrishnan, cello; Thomas Van Dyck, double bass; Max Levinson, piano
Shifting between intimate conversational playing and brilliant piano spotlights, Mozart’s Piano Quartet No. 2 culminates in an Allegretto finale featuring a melody musicologist Alfred Einstein called “the purest, most childlike and godlike…ever sung.” / Though written just two years before his death, Mendelssohn’s String Quintet No. 2 opens with all the joy and exuberance of works he wrote as a teen. The two inner movements, however, display the emotional depth and nuance of a mature man and artist. / Vaughan Williams’s early Quintet in C minor brings melodic string writing underpinned by cascading piano lines. The expressive, romantic second movement gives way to a final theme and variations.
Felix Mendelssohn / String Quintet No. 2 in B-flat major, Op. 87 (1845)
Ralph Vaughan Williams / Piano Quintet in C minor (1903–05)
Jennifer Frautschi, violin; Alyssa Wang, violin; Cara Pogossian; Marcus Thompson, viola; Raman Ramakrishnan, cello; Thomas Van Dyck, double bass; Max Levinson, piano
Shifting between intimate conversational playing and brilliant piano spotlights, Mozart’s Piano Quartet No. 2 culminates in an Allegretto finale featuring a melody musicologist Alfred Einstein called “the purest, most childlike and godlike…ever sung.” / Though written just two years before his death, Mendelssohn’s String Quintet No. 2 opens with all the joy and exuberance of works he wrote as a teen. The two inner movements, however, display the emotional depth and nuance of a mature man and artist. / Vaughan Williams’s early Quintet in C minor brings melodic string writing underpinned by cascading piano lines. The expressive, romantic second movement gives way to a final theme and variations.
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