Artist: Amadeus Quartet
Title: The RIAS Amadeus Quartet Recordings Vol. 5: Romanticism
Year Of Release: 2017
Label: Audite
Genre: Classical
Total Time: 6:15:43

The fifth CD boxed set, Vol. V, from the series The RIAS Amadeus Quartet Recordings is dedicated to nineteenth-century Romantic composers. This six-volume edition presents exclusively first releases on CD.

The Amadeus Quartet included a wider repertoire in the broadcasting studio than in the recording studio. Works by Edvard Grieg and Robert Schumann interpreted by the Amadeus Quartet can be heard here for the first time on CD. And five works in this edition represent novel repertoire that the Amadeus Quartet never recorded on LP: Dvorák's Piano Quintet in A Major, Op. 81, Grieg's String Quartet in G Minor, Op. 27, Mendelssohn's String Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 12, as well as Schumann's String Quartet in A Major, Op. 41, No. 3 and Piano Quintet in E-flat Major, Op. 44.

Only half the works recorded here belong to the string quartet genre. The Amadeus Quartet enjoyed collaborating with other musicians and did so often. In the three piano quintets by Brahms, Dvorák, and Schumann, they performed together with pianist Conrad Hansen, who had appeared with the Berlin Philharmonic under Wilhelm Furtwängler in the 1940s. In the string quintets by Brahms and Bruckner, the Amadeus Quartet is joined by South African-born Cecil Aronowitz – the musician they always turned to when in need of a second violist. And in Brahms's Clarinet Quintet we hear Heinrich Geuser, regarded as Germany's leading clarinetist in the 1950s.

TRACKLIST:

Johannes Brahms: String Quartet No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 51 No. 1
I. Allegro
II. Romanze: Poco adagio
III. Allegretto molto moderato e comodo
IV. Allegro

Johannes Brahms: String Quartet No. 3 in B-Flat Major, Op. 67
I. Vivace
II. Andante
III. Agitato (Allegretto non troppo)
IV. Poco allegretto con Variazioni

Johannes Brahms: Piano Quintet in F Minor, Op. 34
I. Allegro non troppo
II. Andante un poco adagio
III. Scherzo: Allegro
IV. Finale: Poco sostenuto – Allegro non troppo

Johannes Brahms: Clarinet Quintet in B Minor, Op. 115
I. Allegro
II. Adagio – Più lento
III. Andantino – Presto non assai, ma con sentimento
IV. Con moto

Johannes Brahms: String Quintet No. 2 in G Major, Op. 111
I. Allegro non troppo, ma con brio
II. Adagio
III. Un poco allegretto
IV. Vivace ma non troppo presto

Anton Bruckner: String Quintet in F Major, WAB 112
I. Gemäßigt
II. Scherzo: Schnell – Trio: Langsamer
III. Adagio
IV. Finale: Lebhaft bewegt

Robert Schumann: Piano Quintet in E-Flat Major, Op. 44
I. Allegro brillante
II. In modo d'una marcia. Un poco largamente
III. Scherzo: Molto vivace – Trio I – Trio II – L'istesso tempo
IV. Allegro, ma non troppo

Robert Schumann: String Quartet No. 3 in A Major, Op. 41, No. 3
I. Andante espressivo – Allegro molto moderato
II. Assai agitato – Un poco adagio – Tempo sisoluto
III. Adagio molto
IV. Finale: Allegro molto vivace

Felix Mendelssohn: String Quartet No. 1 in E-Flat Major, Op. 12, MWV R 25
I. Adagio non troppo – Allegro non tardante
II. Canzonetta: Allegretto – Più mosso
III. Andante espressivo
IV. Molto allegro e vivace

Felix Mendelssohn: String Quartet, Op. 81

No. 3, Capriccio. Andante con moto – Allegro fugato, MWV R32
Giuseppe Verdi: String Quartet in E Minor
I. Allegro
II. Andantino
III. Prestissimo
IV. Scherzo fuga: Allegro assai mosso

Antonín Dvořák: Piano Quintet in A Major, Op. 81, B. 155
I. Allegro ma non tanto
II. Dumka: Andante con moto
III. Scherzo (Furiant): Molto vivace
IV. Finale: Allegro

Edvard Grieg: String Quartet in G Minor, Op. 27
I. Un poco andante – Allegro molto ed agitato
II. Romanze: Andantino – Allegro agitato
III. Intermezzo: Allegro molto marcato – Allegro agitato
IV. Finale: Lento – Presto al saltarello