NDR Chamber Music Concert

• Classical Music

It is appealing to juxtapose two of the central pieces of Dvoák’s chamber music, of which the Piano Quintet op. 81 is probably the best known, in a concert – this was the idea behind the composition of the programme. Composed during Dvoák’s »Slavic period« in the 1870s, the quartet impressively combines suggestions from the stricter compositional style of Brahms – Dvoák’s declared role model – with the typical Czech folk style and deliberately simple, folk-like music-making. There is an obvious tendency to sing the melodies out widely, especially in the night piece of the second movement.

PERFORMERS

Rodrigo Reichel violin

Ho-Hsuan Feng violin

Jan Larsen viola

Christoph Rocholl violoncello

Paul Rivinius piano

PROGRAM

Antonín Dvoák
Klavierquartett D-Dur op. 23

- Interval -

Antonín Dvoák
Klavierquintett A-Dur op. 81