Sun 27 March - Dvořák, String Quintet Op 97

[french frank]

Sunday 27 March, 5pm-6.30pm

"The Skampa Quartet and viola player Garfield Jackson join Stephen Johnson in dissecting Dvořák's 'American' String Quintet Op 97. Along with his Symphony No 9 (From the New World) and the American String Quartet Op 96, the String Quintet was a work Dvořák wrote during the 3 years he spent in the USA. The programme was recorded at last year's Lake District Summer Music Festival in Kendal, and features extracts and complete performance of the String Quintet."

[rauschwerk]

This is a wonderful piece and greatly superior to the better-known quartet mentioned above.

[Roehre]

This is a wonderful piece and greatly superior to the better-known quartet mentioned above.

Ah, I am not the only one who thinks the quintet op.97 is the "better" work compared with the quartet op.96

[verismissimo]

Life-enhancing, the op97 quintet :)

[verismissimo]

Encouraged by this thread, I got out Dvorak's Legends, which I've had for years (Brno State Phil/Pinkas) but never really discovered. Got them this time.

[traveller]

This is the piece, and the show, that finally brought me to take notice of a nagging desire to know classıcal music more serıously.

Thats not to say ım very far along, but at least started :-D

Great look at a great piece.