California-based Alexander String Quartet has quietly been crafting a body of work surveying the milestones of Romantic chamber music and in many cases offering fresh interpretations. Here they are joined by pianist Joyce Yang in the Schumann Piano Quintet in E flat major, Op. 44, and the Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34, by the 29-year-old Johannes Brahms. Both readings are tremendously exciting, and the musicians do a good job of getting these two works to belong together: they surely do, but they seem initially to have ...
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California-based Alexander String Quartet has quietly been crafting a body of work surveying the milestones of Romantic chamber music and in many cases offering fresh interpretations. Here they are joined by pianist Joyce Yang in the Schumann Piano Quintet in E flat major, Op. 44, and the Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34, by the 29-year-old Johannes Brahms. Both readings are tremendously exciting, and the musicians do a good job of getting these two works to belong together: they surely do, but they seem initially to have different moods. The Alexander Quartet gives the Schumann more speed and dramatic energy than it usually has. The opening five-note motif launches the listener immediately into the thematic development rather than announcing itself as a freestanding motive, and throughout there's a restless quality that makes the music look forward rather than backward toward Beethoven. That's all to the good as you move into the Brahms F minor quintet, perhaps the summation of the structural...
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