Dvořák - Piano Quintet in A major - Lugansky . Repin . Boriso-Glebsky . Gridchuk . Ferrández

Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904)
Piano Quintet in A major, Op. 81 (1888)

Nikolay Lugansky, piano
Vadim Repin, violin
Nikita Boriso-Glebsky, violin
Andrey Gridchuk, viola
Pablo Ferrández, cello
2018, from Moscow Philharmonic Society

I.
[0:00] Expos. - Theme 1 (Allegro ma non tanto)
[2:29] Expos. - Theme 2
[4:03] Expos. - Repeat
[7:56] Dev.
[11:04] Recap. - (largamente - Tempo I)

II.
[14:50] Dumka. A (Andante con moto)
[17:36] B (Un pochettino più mosso)
[19:25] A (Tempo I)
[22:05] C Vivace (quasi l’istesso Tempo.)
[22:47] A (Tempo I)
[24:22] B (Un pochettino più mosso)
[26:10] A (Meno mosso. Tempo I)

III.
[29:12] Scherzo. Furiant (Molto vivace)
[30:42] Trio (Poco tranquillo)
[32:28] Scherzo (Tempo I)

IV.
[33:17] Finale. A (Allegro)
[34:34] B
[35:41] A
[36:50] C (Fugato)
[38:09] B
[39:33] A - Coda (tranquillo - ff)


“Dvořák explained in the preface to his Dumky Trio, that the untranslatable word dumka was of Ukrainian origin and had its roots in melancholy poetry. More specifically, a dumka was a kind of lament that had to be followed by a dance or else its true nature could not be felt. His music shows this understanding to perfection in the alternation of contrasting slow and fast sections, a combination to be found in the folk music of his native Czechoslovakia. In this dumka, the F-sharp minor opening melody suggests a lament, but with the typical Slavic rapid mood change it soon gives way to a cheerful D major melody. The main contrast to the lament “refrain,” however, arrives with the outbreak of the vivace section whose theme Dvořák derived from the Dumka’s opening. “

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