Following the release of their highly praised Naxos recording of Fauré’s Piano Quintets - “warmly expressive, their phrasing generous and intense” (The Guardian) – Cristina Ortiz and the Fine Arts Quartet again join forces for this recording of Franck’s Piano Quintet. The extraordinary emotional range of this work is unified by the tight thematic relationships typical of the composer’s ‘cyclic’ structuring. His String Quartet, composed ten years later, is a summit of Franck’s achievement, also cyclically conceived and revealing his admiration of Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Brahms.
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Franck: String Quartet; Piano Quintet
Ortiz; Fine Arts Quartet
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This outstanding disc of two of Franck’s late masterpieces features the Fine Arts Quartet with Cristina Ortiz in the Piano Quintet…Ortiz and her colleagues realise all of Franck’s pent-up feeling in a performance of a special musical refinement and commitment…The Fine Arts Quartet are entirely at home in the very different scope of the String Quartet, relishing both the music’s contrapuntal intricacy and its full-blown romanticism…I shall look forward to more exceptional music-making from this team.
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"Both [works] are impressive and perhaps the most significant contributions to French chamber music before Fauré, Debussy and Ravel...The pairing is a generous, useful one."
The Guardian
Label: Naxos
Range: Naxos
Catalogue Number: 8572009
Barcode: 747313200979
Release Date: 17th Nov 2009
Recording Date: 22nd Mar 2008
Recording Location: L'heure Bleue, Salle De Musique, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland