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Takacs Quartet - Marc-Andre Hamelin

Dvorak & Price Piano Quartets

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Release Date: March 28, 2025

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1 Price Piano Quintet in A minor - Allegro non troppo  
2 Andante con moto  
3 Juba Allegro  
4 Scherzo Allegro – Coda  
5 Dvora´k Piano Quintet No 2 in A major, Op 81 - Allegro, ma non tanto  
6 Dumka Andante con moto  
7 Scherzo (Furiant) Molto  
8 Allegro  
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The 22nd album from the Takács Quartet – out today on Hyperion Records – once again features pianist Marc-André Hamelin. This album of Piano Quintets features two piano quintets linked by American heritage; one by Florence Price, the first African American woman to have a composition played by a major orchestra, and the other by Antonín Dvorák, whose residency in America during the 1890s made a profound impact in a country whose classical music life was developing rapidly. Dvorák’s piano quintet is acknowledged as the Bohemian composer’s most popular chamber work.

While the Dvorák 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.  Florence Price struggled for recognition even after her award-winning Symphony in E minor of 1932. In fact, this very Piano Quintet was only discovered 50 years after her death, part of a major cache of unpublished manuscripts discovered in an Illinois attic. This has led to a major re-evaluation of her contribution across many genres of instrumental music.

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