專輯類型: 1SACD 發行年份: 2019 國際條碼: 7318599923147 音樂廠牌: BIS Nils-Erik Sparf 尼爾斯-艾克.斯帕夫 小提琴 Bengt Forsberg 班特.佛斯伯格, 鋼琴 With his Op. 44 quintet from 1842, Robert Schumann transformed the constellation of piano and string quartet from one that just served as a showcase for the pianist into a true chamber ensemble. Following his example, Brahms and Dvořak produced their own masterly quintets, and during the 20th century composers as diverse as Elgar, Faure and Shostakovich added to the short list of piano quintets that get regular performances. On the rather longer list of rarely heard quintets we find those recorded here, by pianist Bengt Forsberg and a quartet of some of Sweden's finest string players. Both works were composed during the 1910s, and straddle in different ways the divide between postromanticism and modernism. Of French descent, the Russian composer Georgy Catoire studied the piano in Moscow as well as Berlin and it is primarily his piano music that is heard today. With its original use of harmony and inventive rhythmic structure, the quintet is nevertheless one of the most seductive works in Catoire's output. Although better known than Catoire, Polish-born Ignaz Friedman is famous not for his compositions but as one of the greatest pianists of the twentieth century, admired by Rachmaninov as well as Horowitz. Written in 1918, his Quintet in C minor is tuneful, but also dramatic, sombre and melancholy at turns. This may be a reflection of the ongoing war, but it has also been suggested that it was inspired by the death of Friedman's father, an itinerant Jewish musician, and that the theme of the third movement, derived from Polish folk music, may be a tribute to him. Georgy Catoire (1861–1926) Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 28 24'21 1) I. Allegro moderato 8'18 2) II. Andante 8'32 3) III. Allegro con spirito e capriccioso 7'19 Ignaz Friedman (1882–1948) Piano Quintet in C minor (1918) 36'58 4) I. Allegro maestoso 14'46 5) II. Larghetto, con somma espressione 13'46 6) III. Epilogue. Allegretto semplice 8'17 TT: 62'08