Our Summer BAL 19 - Schumann Piano Quintet

[AmpH]

Another Argerich-led set ...

http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/EMI/5573082

Indeed Am51 - this contains my personal favourite recording of the Schumann piano quintet and is the one to which I was referring in my post ( #11 ) above.

[Don Petter]

Here comes the oldie vote again - for Aller and the Hollywood on Testament.

[LeMartinPecheur]

That is the Argerich performance I meant - I do not know where I got Lugano from for that . I imagine because it was released some time after the event .

Clearly some sort of Infectious Luganoitis doing the rounds here! My mention of Argerich/ Lugano chums in #6 is to the EMI single-disc Schumann collection that amateur51 posts a link to in #15, which ain't Lugano at all

[EdgeleyRob]

There's not a lot wrong with this one IMO.

[amateur51]

Indeed Am51 - this contains my personal favourite recording of the Schumann piano quintet and is the one to which I was referring in my post ( #11 ) above.

Apologies, AmpH

[Pianorak]

I can muster Rubinstein/ Guarneri and Serkin/ Budapest on LP, with CDs of Argerich and Lugano chums, Biss/ Jerusalem (BBC MM). No special favourite, but this minute would reach for one of the LPs which sadly I haven't spun for years.

You sure about Biss/Jerusalem and not the Elias String Quartett?

[BBMmk2]

Another Argerich-led set ...

http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/EMI/5573082

Ah, that does look rather a mouth watering box set! Thank amateur51!

[LeMartinPecheur]

You sure about Biss/Jerusalem and not the Elias String Quartett?

'Jerusalem Quartet' is certainly what it - BBC MM245 from 2004 - says on the tin!

[Pianorak]

'Jerusalem Quartet' is certainly what it - BBC MM245 from 2004 - says on the tin!

Thanks for that LMP - haven't got the BBC MM - Biss must have recorded it twice. I assume we are talking about Jonathan Biss.

[Barbirollians]

There's not a lot wrong with this one IMO.

That was the first recording I had of both pieces . I would describe it as serviceable.

I was much more taken with both works when I came across Argerich in Schumann and Curzon in the Brahms .

[LeMartinPecheur]

Thanks for that LMP - haven't got the BBC MM - Biss must have recorded it twice. I assume we are talking about Jonathan Biss.

Yep. He's the common factor in all the recordings on this disc: S's Papillons, 4 songs with Emma Bell, Fantasiestucke Op 73 with Martin Frost/Froest (clt), and the pf 5tet.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Yep. He's the common factor in all the recordings on this disc: S's Papillons, 4 songs with Emma Bell, Fantasiestucke Op 73 with Martin Frost/Froest (clt), and the pf 5tet.

Yes: a very good disc.

[Stanfordian]

There's not a lot wrong with this one IMO.

I agree Edgeley Rob. I have a number of fine versions but the Kodaly Quartet and Jeno Jando is pretty much up there with them. However, I strongly recomend the augmented Beaux Arts Trio on Philips. Of the newer accounts I admire the Artemis Quartet with Leif Ove Andsnes on Virgin.

[Roehre]

.... Best of all however, in my view, are Argerich and friends live at the Concertgebouw in 1994, from a splendid Schumann disc.

I agree, and I was lucky enough to attend that particular concert as well.......

[Roehre]

Yep. He's the common factor in all the recordings on this disc: S's Papillons, 4 songs with Emma Bell, Fantasiestucke Op 73 with Martin Frost/Froest (clt), and the pf 5tet.

IMO Not only a very good disc, but an excellent one, in terms of programme as well as in terms of performances!