Piano quintets by Granados and Turina

Started by Wieland, Friday 08 April 2016, 19:37

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Wieland

If you are into piano quintets and looking for some unusual fare, the new CD by the Spanish Cuarteto Quiroga and pianist Javier Perianes might be a good place to look.
https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/art/piano-quintets/hnum/8299737
The Cuarteto Quiroga is on its way to become the second Spanish quartet of international fame after the Cuarteto Casals on the current market. Their first two CDs were focused on music not of relevance here and the third on Brahms, not really underrecorded. But their new Harmonia Mundi CD really has two gems in the two piano quintets by Enrique Granados and Joaquin Turina. Granados - mostly known for his piano music - wrote his quintet op. 49 at the end of the 19th century. The 3-movement piece shows some relation to the french music of that time and has an unusually attractive spanish-coloured middle movement. Turinas quintet - his op. 1 composed ten years later - is more on the Brahms side, starting unusually with a fugue. Both pieces on two hearings seem very attractive and suitable to become repertoire pieces. Standards of interpretation and recording are as high as they get today. Only complaint: there would have been enough space on this 51-minute CD to include some additional music, e.g. music for string quartet written by Turina.

eschiss1

You mention Spanish quartet groups. There's one, I think- a piano quartet (Quetzal) - which has performed one of Raff's op.202 in concert (see YouTube) and from which I'd certainly like to hear more.