After two earlier Dvorák releases, the Trios nos.3 and 4 (Dumky) and the two Piano Quartets, Omri Epstein, Mathieu van Bellen and Ori Epstein are joined by one of their teachers at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel, the violist Miguel da Silva (founder member of the famous Quatuor Ysaÿe) and the violinist Maria Milstein, who was also an artist in residence at the Music Chapel from 2011 to 2014. Together they continue this recording of the Czech composer’s complete chamber music with keyboard, this time in the two Piano Quintets and the Bagatelles. There is an obvious close rapport between these musicians, who share with us their passion for this repertory and their enjoyment of playing together. A gap of fifteen years separates Dvorák’s two Piano Quintets, which have few features in common except a shared home key: the First marks the debut of a youthful composer, while the Second shows him at the peak of his art. The Bagatelles, originally scored for two violins, cello and harmonium, are among his best known short pieces. A recording scheduled for release in autumn 2018 will complete this quadriptych of Dvorák’s piano trios, quartets and quintets.
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“…This is one of the best things I’ve yet heard from the Busch in their evolving Dvorak series, naturally recorded, with first-rate notes from Jan Smaczny.”
Harriet Smith - Gramophone magazine – September 2018
**** (Excellent)
Fabienne Bouvet – Classica magazine (France) – September 2018
“…The Busch Trio … with Milstein and da Silva, play it [Quintet No. 1] with conviction, then rise to the beauties of the quintessentially Dvorakian Second Quintet.”
David Cairns - The Sunday Times (Culture magazine) – 24 June 2018
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