Dvorak - String Quintet op.97, String Sextet op.48
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Label: Harmonia Mundi
Cat No: HMM902320
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 19th January 2018
Contents
Artists
Jerusalem QuartetVeronika Hagen (viola)
Gary Hoffmann (cello)
Works
String Quintet in E flat major, op.97 B180 'American'String Sextet in A major, op.48 B80
Artists
Jerusalem QuartetVeronika Hagen (viola)
Gary Hoffmann (cello)
About
On the one hand, the four-movement work, premiered by the augmented Joachim Quartet in Berlin at the end of July 1879 and published by Simrock shortly thereafter, confronts the influence of the Austro-German school in a very responsible, indeed emphatic manner. That is so in respect of both its alignment with formal structural principles of a classical nature and, above all, its strong emphasis on motivic-thematic work. It is unmistakable how closely Dvořák sticks in his op.48 to the example of Johannes Brahms when it comes to underpinning the largely textbook sonata form of the opening Allegro moderato with a complex web of innumerable little motivic derivatives, thanks to which each subsidiary voice is assigned a structural value in its own right. Thus the choice of forces for his ‘test piece’ (it was to remain the only one of its kind in Dvořák’s catalogue of works) with regard to the two string sextets of his revered colleague, eight years his elder, was probably no coincidence. On the other hand, it is the spontaneity of inspiration that captivates. ‘That fellow has more ideas than all of us’, a dumbfounded Brahms is said to have declared in 1875 when a score by this previously unknown Bohemian came into his hands for the first time. ‘Anyone else could pick up their main themes from his rejects.’ And years later, on the occasion of a Viennese performance of Dvořák’s Sextet, it was Brahms again who enthused to his friend the composer and conductor Richard Heuberger over its ‘wonderful invention, freshness and beauty of sound’, observing ‘I always have the feeling that people don’t admire this piece enough’.
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