Schumann: Piano Quintet Op 44 & Piano Quartet Op 47 – review

Alexander Melnikov (piano), Jerusalem Quartet(Harmonia Mundi)Having scarcely ventured into chamber music writing before, Schumann suddenly composed three string quartets, a piano quartet and a piano quintet in one year: 1842. While the piano quartet has great vitality and charm, the quintet is on a different level of achievement: a fiendish pianistic challenge as well as a masterpiece of the genre. The Jerusalem Quartet, who last month won their third BBC Music magazine award for a recent Moza...

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