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Ernest Bloch: The Two Piano Quintets

by Kocian Quartet, Ivan Klánský

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Piano Quintet No. 1 I. Agitato 08:49
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Piano Quintet No. 1 II. Andante mistico 10:25
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Piano Quintet No. 1 III. Allegro energico 13:48
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Piano Quintet No. 2 I. Animato 04:55
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Piano Quintet No. 2 II. Andante 05:41
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Piano Quintet No. 2 III. Allegro - Calmo 07:05

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"He could have laid claim, like Georges Enesco, to the title of “the Berlioz of chamber music”! It should be known that the five string quartets, two quintets, two violin sonatas, the Suite for Viola and piano and the composer’s testament, the six suites for solo strings constitute a corpus whose importance, in the 20th century, is every bit the equal of Bartók or Schoenberg. But Bloch remained an independent, far from any school or system, whose sole concern will have been to be sincere and true." (Harry Halbreich, 1990)

Awards: Choc by Le Monde de la Musique, 10 by Répertoire, Recommended by Classica, 5 by Diapason, ClassicsToday.com, Audiophile Audition

"Ivan Klánský and the Kocian Quartet give an interpretation of the Quintet No. 1 that is fantastic for its precision and fervour, one of his greatest chamber works, along with the Quartet No. 2, and certainly one of the four or five most beautiful quintets of the 20th century. The Czech musicians reproduce the full elan and all the details of this monumental architecture in three movements, with its extraordinary expressive power, exemplary energy and rhythmic violence as well as lofty serenity and a poetic, impassioned sense of dreaming (andante mistico). With the Quintet No. 2 of 1957, we again find the turbulence and rhythmic vitality illustrated in the Quartet No. 3, further surpassing it in concision. There, too, Klánský and the Kocians show themselves to be the inspired interpreters of this score’s harmonic and rhythmic tensions as well as of its sober lyricism." (Choc by Le Monde de la Musique, July 2003)

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released January 1, 2003

Kocian Quartet (Ensemble)
Ivan Klánský (Piano)

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