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Antonin Dvorak

 

Piano Quintet No. 1 in A major, B. 28 (Op. 5)

 

 

- Composer: Antonín Leopold Dvořák (8 September 1841 -- 1 May 1904)
- Performers: Sviatoslav Richter (piano),
Borodin Quartet: Mikhail Kopelman (violin I), Andrei Abramenkov (violin II), Dmitri Shebalin (viola), Valentin Berlinsky (cello)
- Year of recording: 1982

Piano Quintet No. 1 in A major, B. 28 (Op. 5), written in 1872.

00:00 - I. Allegro ma non troppo
08:34 - II. Andante sostenuto
19:37 - III. Finale. Allegro con brio

If there is any real importance to Antonín Dvorák's early Piano Quintet No. 1 in A major, Op. 5, it lies in

the fact that were not this piece, when all is said and done, an unsatisfying work of music, one of the crown jewels of the chamber music repertoire, Dvorák's Piano Quintet No. 2 in A major, Op. 81 [uploaded on this channel], would likely never have been composed.

The story is an interesting one. A few months after Dvorák finished Op. 5, it was given a performance and forgotten -- the composer was at that point an unknown musical figure. Many years after that, in the late 1880s, after he had made a name for himself composing Slavonic and Moravian trifles and more substantial works, Dvorák unearthed Op. 5 and started to tinker with it -- he often revised early works, with varying degrees of success. He found, however, that he could not remake the music into something he liked, so he abandoned the work once again and immediately started composing a new piano quintet in the same key. Many decades and several major wars would go by before the Op. 5 Quintet was again unearthed and finally published.

The three-movement Piano Quintet, Op. 5 will probably always remain a novelty piece, but it does contain some moments of fine music. There is a pleasing sway to the opening movement, and some lovely instrumental songs in the central Andante; the third movement gallops along energetically, if perhaps a bit clumsily.

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piano quintet No. 2 in A major, Op. 81

Performed by Kathryn Selby and Parker String Quartet. Filmed live by Kahuna Digital at

 City Recital Hall Angel Place, Sydney, 2 September, 2008.

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This magnificent performance of Antonin Dvořák's Piano Quintet, Op. 81 was only one piece of

a superb programme played by several of the master musicians who spend two weeks each year

teaching at the annual International Academy of Music Festival in Tuscany. What makes this

performance so remarkable is that these musicians had very limited time to rehearse together

 and only after a full day giving master classes to the students! It was performed in one of the

beautiful old churches of Barga, Tuscany in 2005.

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Éva Szalai-piano
Tamás Diószegi, Rajmund Ónodi-violin
Mihály Várnagy-viola
Ildikó Czvik-cello

Live concert recording; 2011., Budapest

Piano Quintet No. 2 in A major, B. 155, Op. 81, written in 1887.

00:00 - I. Allegro, ma non tanto
13:31 - II(a). Dumka. Andante con moto -
22:41 - II(b). Un pochettino più mosso
27:45 - III. Scherzo (Furiant). Molto vivace - Trio. Poco tranquillo
31:53 - IV. Finale. Allegro

In the early 1870s Antonín Dvořák wrote a Piano Quintet in A major that was published as Op. 5 [uploaded in this channel]. Always dissatisfied with it, he attempted in 1887 to revise it for republication. Instead, he cast it aside and immediately set about composing a brand new piano quintet in the same key. This product, the Piano Quintet in A major, Op. 81 (now called No. 2, though Dvořák surely would not have liked to hear it called so), is a complete success and a central masterwork of Romantic-era chamber music. Written between August and early October of 1887, it is a work that now stands alongside the Brahms F minor Piano Quintet [uploaded on this channel] as one of the twin peaks of the repertoire written for piano and string quartet. The three legs of the Dvořák stylistic triad -- Brahmsian depth and warmth, Eastern European folk flavor, and sheer melodicism -- are held in perfect balance here.

The Piano Quintet is in the traditional four movements (though the use of a schizophrenic dumka as the slow movement is more than a bit nontraditional): Allegro ma non tanto, Andante con moto (the dumka), Molto vivace (a scherzo), and Allegro.

- The cello introduces a famous melody atop a warm bed of the piano's arpeggiations at the start of the first movement; but barely a dozen bars go by before the music takes a jolting turn to the minor mode and shoots forth towards a rousing, fortissimo C major phrase (if only four bars are remembered by a listener while driving home from the concert, it will be these). A second theme area in C sharp minor provides the basis for a movement that falls essentially into the long tradition of sonata form.
- The dumka was a Ukrainian lament or ballad that often contained several sections with contrasting moods; Dvořák incorporated dumky into several compositions. The dumka movement in this quintet is in F sharp minor. Its beautiful and introverted main theme is turned on its head first by a lighthearted D major interlude (Un pochettino più mosso) and then, after a reprise during which the viola plays the main tune in canon with the piano, by a fabulous Vivace during which a sprightly version of the main tune's first notes is tossed about between the players.
- The scherzo is called a "Furiant" in the score; at first it shows none of the metric alternations inherent in that particular Bohemian dance, but as the trio section unfolds Dvořák provides some nice three-against-four and two-against-threes rhythmic passages.
- The rondo finale starts with a burst of secco string eighth notes against rapid syncopation in the piano. The refrain theme thoroughly enjoys its time on center stage, hustling and bustling forward on folkish sixteenth notes.

 

<해설>

String Quintet No. 2 in G major, Opus 77, (B. 49) was originally composed in early March 1875 and first

performed on March 18, 1876 in Prague at the concert of the Umělecká beseda.

It is scored for two violins, viola, cello, and double bass. First marked as Op. 18, it was later slightly revised in 1888 as opus 77. It has since been assigned the Burghauser number 49. Dvořák entered the piece in a competition and was awarded 5 ducats for the composition. The work bears the competition's motto, "To my Nation," as its dedication.

Although the original work was scored in five movements, Dvořák later withdrew the second movement, entitled "Intermezzo," due to concerns that having two slow movements made the work too lengthy. This extracted movement was later reworked and republished as the Nocturne for Strings in B major, Op. 40 (B. 47). Some modern ensembles choose to restore the intermezzo when performing the work.

The work was published in 1888 by Simrock, not under its original opus number 18, but as Opus 77.

 

 

 

<Structure>

The quintet consists of four movements:

• I. Allegro con fuoco
• II. Scherzo. Allegro vivace
• III. Poco andante
• IV. Finale. Allegro assai

<Selected recordings>

• String Quintet No. 2, String Sextet. CD Supraphon (11 1461-2 131).
• The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center: Dvorak Serenade. Perf. Joseph Silverstein, Ani Kavafian, Paul Neubauer, Gary Hoffman, Edgar Meyer. CD. Delos, 1995.
• - Performers: Andreas Haefliger (piano), Takács Quartet
  - Year of recording: 1998