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Dvorak - Love Songs, Cypresses, Piano Quintet
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Label: Avie
Cat No: AV2234
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 21st November 2011
Contents
Works
Cypresses for String Quartet, B152 'Echo of Songs'Piano Quintet in A major, op.81
Pisne milostne (Love Songs) (8), op.83 B160
Artists
Adriana Kucerova (soprano)Christoph Eschenbach (piano)
Thymos Quartet
Works
Cypresses for String Quartet, B152 'Echo of Songs'Piano Quintet in A major, op.81
Pisne milostne (Love Songs) (8), op.83 B160
Artists
Adriana Kucerova (soprano)Christoph Eschenbach (piano)
Thymos Quartet
About
“Think about a young man in love – this is what they are about", wrote Dvorák to his publisher when he was preparing Cypresses for string quartet. The title is taken from a volume of poems by Gustav Pfleger-Moravsky which inspired the composer’s earlier burst of song writing in 1865, eight of which later became the cycle Love Songs Op.83, and 12 of which were arranged for string quartet, five of them presented here.
Recalling youthful love letters that are preserved and cherished, Love Songs and Cypresses combine beautiful melodic simplicity with the technique of a composer who was, by the mid-late 1880s, at the height of his powers. Cypresses in their string quartet form were premiered on 6 January 1888, on a bill which also featured the first performance of the Piano Quintet, Op.81.
The Paris-based Quatuor Thymos – named after an ancient Greek term meaning “spiritedness” – comprises four First Prize winners from the Paris and Lyon conservatoires. Following acclaimed performances throughout France and in other European capitols, they were invited to perform at the Ravinia Festival in Chicago by Christoph Eschenbach. This recording brings the foursome together with the eminent pianist, who also accompanies the Slovakian soprano Adriana Kucerova whose star is rapidly in the ascendant.
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