Piano Quintet from Louise Farrenc

[Mark Thomas]

Brilliant Classics are releasing a new recording on of Farrenc's Piano Quintets at the end of August. The performers are the Quintetto Bottesini. Full details and sound bites at jpc here.

[eschiss1]

Is this their third recording now? Not complaining- they're probably my favorite works by her, though I don't think I know that many of the others yet. They really are quite good, I think... and if themelets from both her 2nd quintet and Brahms' 2nd serenade prefigure a tunelet well-known to fans of public radio ("All Things Considered") here, well, ... that's how it is.