Dvořák & Price: Piano Quintets
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ANTONIN DVORAK / FLORENCE PRICE
Dvořák & Price: Piano Quintets
Takacs Quartet, Marc-Andre Hamelin (piano)
[ Hyperion / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 28 March 2025
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Collaborations between the Takács Quartet and Marc-André Hamelin can always be relied on to deliver rather special results, and their fifth Hyperion album together-Piano Quintets by Antonín Dvořák & Florence Price-is no exception. The coupling is inspired: both quintets are major works, vital and invigorating, but while the Dvořák has long been a staple of the chamber music repertoire, Price's is a recent find, one of the composer's manuscripts discovered as recently as 2009, some 70 years or so after it was written and more than 50 years after her death. Pairing it with Dvořák makes for a memorable and life-enhancing album.
The performance Florence Price's Piano Quintet receives on this eagerly awaited new release from the Takács Quartet and Marc-André Hamelin would suggest that it can be only a matter of time before the work-rediscovered only in 2009-is as familiar and much-loved as the one by Dvořák with which it shares the album.
"There's Mendelssohnian feather-lightness in the outer sections of the Scherzo, while the central Poco tranquillo Trio section is another example of breathtaking raptness...With recorded sound that's at once detailed and atmospheric, this new Hyperion release is pure pleasure in every respect." Gramophone Award Nomination 2026 - Chamber
"Their performance of Dvořák's magical Second Piano Quintet is magnificent. The verve and sheer beauty of the string playing is immediately apparent in the glorious cello solo at the opening, but such exquisite moments never get in the way of a strong feeling for overall structure which pays huge dividends in the outer movements." BBC Music Five Stars
"The premiere recording [of the Price] was released by the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective only four years ago, but this new one, by the chamber-music dream team of the Takács Quartet and pianist Marc-André Hamelin, offers a different slant, placing the work more firmly in the classical tradition of the Dvořák with which it is paired...The two approaches are complementary, equally worthwhile, yet if anything the Quintet as a whole sounds less self-conscious as the Takács and Hamelin have it." The Guardian
Tracks:
Price, F: Piano Quintet in A minor
Dvořák: Piano Quintet in A major, Op. 81
