Schumann: Piano Quartet & Piano Quintet
Isabelle Faust (violin), Anne-Katharina Schreiber (violin, Antoine Tamestit (viola), Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello), Alexander Melnikov (piano)
Awards:
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Winners, Chamber
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Chamber Music
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2024
The Quintet is a brilliant virtuoso vehicle with a symphonic tone but these five musicians don’t turn it into a quasi-piano concerto with string quartet, as sometimes occurs. Rather, they meld...
Schumann: Piano Quartet & Piano Quintet
Isabelle Faust (violin), Anne-Katharina Schreiber (violin, Antoine Tamestit (viola), Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello), Alexander Melnikov (piano)
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Awards:
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Winners, Chamber
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Chamber Music
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2024
The Quintet is a brilliant virtuoso vehicle with a symphonic tone but these five musicians don’t turn it into a quasi-piano concerto with string quartet, as sometimes occurs. Rather, they meld...
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In his Piano Quartet and Quintet, Schumann revisited the frameworks inherited from Schubert and Beethoven to create astonishingly innovative structures.
Their grandiose musical and emotional gestures place these works among his supreme achievements.
The prestigious artists assembled here, with their extensive experience of performing Schumann’s chamber music and concertos, do full justice to his imaginative world.
Contents and tracklist
- Isabelle Faust (violin), Anne-Katharina Schreiber (violin), Antoine Tamestit (viola), Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello), Alexander Melnikov (piano)
Awards and reviews
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International Classical Music Awards2025Nominated - Chamber Music
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Gramophone MagazineCritics' Choice 2024
February 2024
The Quintet is a brilliant virtuoso vehicle with a symphonic tone but these five musicians don’t turn it into a quasi-piano concerto with string quartet, as sometimes occurs. Rather, they meld their ensemble seamlessly and attend to minute details of phrasing and dynamics without losing sight of the shape of each movement.
23rd November 2023
By any standards this is chamber music playing of the highest class; the fact that it’s performed on instruments of the period only makes it more satisfying.
