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Takacs Quartet, Marc-Andre Hamelin - Cesar Franck: Piano Quintet; Claude Debussy: String Quartet (2016)

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Takacs Quartet, Marc-Andre Hamelin - Cesar Franck: Piano Quintet; Claude Debussy: String Quartet (2016)

César Franck - Piano Quintet; Claude Debussy - String Quartet (2016)
Takács String Quartet; Marc-André Hamelin, piano

EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 252 Mb | Booklet included
Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDA68061 | Time: 01:02:23

Franck’s Piano Quintet and Debussy’s String Quartet make an apt and unusual coupling, each work its composer’s only, unsurpassable, contribution to the genre. Both receive authoritative performances from Marc-André Hamelin and the Takács Quartet.

Takacs Quartet, Marc-Andre Hamelin - Cesar Franck: Piano Quintet; Claude Debussy: String Quartet (2016)

When the seasoned artistry of the Takács Quartet blends with the thoughtful brilliance of Marc-André Hamelin, a rare alchemy occurs. Their fruitful collaboration on record goes back to a 2009 Schumann Quintet (11/09), with a Shostakovich Quintet released last year (5/15). Their new recording of Franck’s Piano Quintet, one of the glories of the 19th-century French chamber repertory, stands comparison with some of the best, including Curzon/Vienna Philharmonic, Richter/Borodin and Cortot/International (formerly EMI).

The Quartet casts down the gauntlet with an implacably assertive opening statement in the Franck, setting the stage for an Orpheus-and-the-Furies-style dialogue with the piano. It’s a compelling approach to a movement that, on occasion, can become an uncertain, diffuse prologue to the main event of the Lento and Allegro non troppo. But what begins as a dialogue between strings and piano soon becomes a discourse among five musicians, urgently argued with lacerating intensity. The cohesion brought to this emotional caldron, one feels, could only be the result of complete unity of purpose shared by five musical minds.

Embarking on the slow movement brings almost visceral relief, even knowing that the lyric narrative about to unfold is one of the saddest in the literature. Delicacy and finesse produce colours and textures as vividly beautiful as they are emotionally impactful. But as much as we might like to linger in this sensual melancholy, in less than no time we’re swept up on to the magic-carpet ride of the finale, where kinetic exhilaration fuels the kaleidoscopic flight over varied terrain. I’m not sure I’ve had another experience of this work that imparts its affective essence so authentically while keeping its architectural ingenuity and grace always in view.

To Debussy’s luminous and under-appreciated String Quartet of 1893 the Takács bring all their intelligence, skill, taste and virtuosity. While every measure of this performance affords pleasure, the pizzicato shower of the scherzo and the touching tenderness of the Andantino are special treats. Very highly recommended.

Review by Patrick Rucker, Gramophone

The music of César Franck seems to have gone unaccountably out of fashion, and what a pity that is. How marvellous, then, to encounter his blistering, no-holds-barred Piano Quintet, one of the masterpieces of its genre, scrubbing up bright in the hands of some of the best advocates it could hope for. The Takács Quartet matches the music’s mystic fervour and impassioned rhetoric with burnished intensity of tone, through which Marc-André Hamelin’s apparently effortless virtuosity dashes and dives with scintillating clarity.

The Debussy String Quartet is an interesting choice of companion piece; the juxtaposition means that perhaps we notice its similarities to the Franck as much, if not more than, its very clear differences. That is also down to the Takács Quartet’s playing infusing it with the same finger-singeing white heat it brings to the Franck. Earthy, passionate Debussy? Why ever not? This was a significant part of his own character and just because accepted tradition imagines him as light, impressionistic and floaty, that’s no reason always to play him that way. The Takács’s degree of drama is quite extreme, yet there’s no loss to the wealth of detail. Leader Edward Dusinberre’s phrasing has a beautiful, actorly, declamatory quality in the first movement, the pizzicato second movement Is full of bounce and pointed motivic connections and the slow movement is exemplary in its inward and reflective nature. And the sound quality is absolutely splendid.

Review by Jessica Duchen, BBC Music Magazine


The Takács Quartet have the mainstream Austro-Germanic repertory as their sweet spot, but they excel in this French program that contains a highly personal example of the late Romantic style and the first stirrings of modernism. The Piano Quintet in F minor, M7, of César Franck, is right up the Takács' alley, for it depends on coordination of a large-scale harmonic structure. That structure is deployed in the service of passionate and even erotic ends, with the outer movements depicting a kind of disorientation that audiences at the time (including the dedicatee, pianist Camille Saint-Saëns, who stalked off the stage at the end of the piece) correctly read as hinting at an extramarital affair. The Takács capture the wondrous instability of this work, which is unlike anything else in the chamber repertory, and pianist Marc-André Hamelin, who can be virtuosic without fireworks, provides a perfect foil, seeming almost to graze the keys to make them sound. The early String Quartet in G minor, Op. 10, of Debussy, in which the composer flirts with deserting traditional structure, but then feels compelled to touch base with it (sample the first few minutes of the first movement), is not quite as successful, but there are many points that display the Takács' sheer ensemble magnificence, such as the clockwork-like pizzicato passages in the second movement, possibly influenced by the Javanese gamelan music Debussy heard at the Universal Exposition in Paris in 1889. The fine Wyastone Estate Concert Hall sound caps off a superb French chamber music release.

Review by James Manheim, Allmusic.com


Takacs Quartet, Marc-Andre Hamelin - Cesar Franck: Piano Quintet; Claude Debussy: String Quartet (2016)



Takacs Quartet, Marc-Andre Hamelin - Cesar Franck: Piano Quintet; Claude Debussy: String Quartet (2016)



Takács String Quartet:
- Edward Dusinberre, first violin
- Károly Schranz, second violin
- Geraldine Walther, viola
- András Fejér, cello

Marc-André Hamelin, piano (1–3)

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César Franck (1822-1890)
Piano Quintet in F minor, M7:
1. Molto moderato quasi lento – Allegro (16:28)
2. Lento, con molto sentimento (11:07)
3. Allegro non troppo ma con fuoco (09:37)

Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
String Quartet in G minor, L91, op. 10:
4. Animé et très décidé (06:17)
5. Assez vif et bien rythmé (04:02)
6. Andantino, doucement expressif (07:25)
7. Très modéré (07:22)


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