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The Raphael Ensemble - Dvorák: String Quintet & String Sextet (2013)

Posted By: tirexiss

Date: 27 Aug 2017 14:47:48

Dvorák’s chamber music is one of the most popular parts of his repertoire and contains some classics of the genre. Thoroughly Romantic, endlessly imaginative and imbued with Slavonic fire, the String Quintet and String Sextet are elegantly performed by the virtuoso musicians of The Raphael Ensemble.
This 1988 recording is the natural choice for anyone wanting these two delightful works on one disc, as I did. Already having got to know and love the Piano Trio, Quartet and Quintet and the most celebrated string quartets, this string quintet and sextet was the next, natural development in my exploration of Dvorak's chamber music. Separated by fifteen years, they represent some of the most joyful and exuberant music Dvorak ever wrote, the Sextet being more redolent of Bohemian folk music while the later Quintet, written while the composer and his family were holidaying in Iowa amongst Czech settlers shows the influence of the Native American melodies and his nostalgia for his own native land. Rhapsodic and melancholy by turns, this music is extraordinarily well served by the Raphael Ensemble, who play with verve and irreproachable unanimity. I am also particularly impressed by their attention to the shading of dynamics and their feeling for rubato in the pulse of this music. Just listen to the first few bars of Op. 97 and you are instantly transported into Dvorak's special sound world: the viola intones a heart-breaking, bitter-sweet melody, then gradually the violins attempt to pierce the melancholy clouds only to be gently repulsed by the cello, then they regroup and the sun breaks through in octaves - magical. The music dances, marches and whirls through variations and sudden rhythmic twists in a manner unmistakable for any other composer.
Hyperion provides gloriously full and natural sound; this is as close to a perfect disc of its type as you could find.

AllMusic

Track List:

Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904)

[1]-[4] String Quintet in E flat major, Op.97
[5]-[8] String Sextet in A major, Op.48

Performers:
The Raphael Ensemble
James Clark, Elizabeth Wexler, violins
Sally Beamish, Roger Tapping, violas
Andrea Hess, Rhydian Shaxson, cellos

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