Mélodies Infinies: Fauré & Enescu Piano Quartets Suyeon Kang, Karolina Errera, Andrei Ioniţ, Catalin Serbană

• Gabriel Fauré (1845 - 1924): Piano Quartet No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 15:
• 1 Fauré: Piano Quartet No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 15: I. Allegro molto moderato 10:08
• 2 Fauré: Piano Quartet No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 15: II. Scherzo. Allegro vivo 05:53
• 3 Fauré: Piano Quartet No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 15: III. Adagio 07:56
• 4 Fauré: Piano Quartet No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 15: IV. Allegro molto 08:15
• George Enescu (1881 - 1955): Piano Quartet No. 1 in D Major, Op. 16:
• 5 Enescu: Piano Quartet No. 1 in D Major, Op. 16: I. Allegro moderato 16:21
• 6 Enescu: Piano Quartet No. 1 in D Major, Op. 16: II. Andante mesto 14:38
• 7 Enescu: Piano Quartet No. 1 in D Major, Op. 16: III. Vivace 11:14
• Total Runtime 01:14:25

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Gabriel Fauré’s Piano Quartet in C minor was one of the first of its genre in France, composed as part of the ‘Ars Gallica’ idea of strengthening French music against German cultural domination. Fauré didn’t entirely escape the influence of Brahms however, and both he and his pupil George Enescu share a spiritual closeness to German late Romanticism in the melancholy complexity of expression in these chamber masterpieces. The monumental first movement of Enescu’s First Piano Quartet contrasts with the rhythmic momentum of the last, in a work that integrates French impressionism with the unmistakable folk music characteristics of his native Romania.

Suyeon Kang, violin
Karolina Errera, viola
Andrei Ioniță, cello
Catalin Serban, piano

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