Your favourite QUINTETS, any mix of instruments.

[Nick Armstrong]

Shosty Piano Quintet

First quintet by anyone I ever knew, love it still.

Can't believe no one's mentioned the Fauré Piano Quintets

[aeolium]

Mozart string quintet K614
Weber Clarinet quintet
Schumann piano quintet
Brahms string quintet op 111
Dvorak string quintet op 97

and many of those already mentioned

[Tapiola]

3 favourite quintets:

Shostakovich: Piano Quintet
Schnittke: Piano Quintet
Schoenberg: String Quartet No 2

[antongould]

Another vote for the Brahms Piano Quintet as someone has observed - wonderful.

[teamsaint]

i am also particularly fond of the Beethoven op16 for piano and wind quintet. Just lovely.

[Don Petter]

Rimsky - Quintet for Piano and Winds.

[MrGongGong]

Ligeti : Six bagatelles for wind quintet gets my
and i'm also very keen on
Feldman: Three Clarinets, cello and piano (does what it says on the tin !)

[Nick Armstrong]

Rimsky - Quintet for Piano and Winds.

Wow... never heard that. I like Piano & Winds (W.A.M). Got a recommended recording, Don?

(Actually, I love the quintet form generally - rare for me to find one I don't like. Esp with piano and/or clarinet involved)

[JFLL]

Lots of great ones to choose from.......

Yes, in fact there are so many good ones it's impossible to choose. Most of the great classical/romantic/modern composers seemed to particularly relish the form (with the possible exception of Beethoven, though his string quintet op 29 is underrated).

Perhaps we should choose a quintet we can't stand, which might be a bit more difficult!

[MrGongGong]

I'm also very keen on this quintet

http://cycling74.com/toolbox/quintet-net/

[aeolium]

There's also Mozart's quintet for glass harmonica, oboe, flute, viola and cello (adagio & rondo only).

[LeMartinPecheur]

The other Dvorak quintets have already been bagged, very deservedly, but I wouldn't want to lose the Op 77 string 5tet with double bass.

And I've been well impressed - more than I expected to be - with the Bax Piano 5tet. Threre's a good recording on Naxos c/w the Bridge, mentioned above.

[Bryn]

Ligeti : Six bagatelles for wind quintet gets my
and i'm also very keen on
Feldman: Three Clarinets, cello and piano (does what it says on the tin !)

There's a 192kbps downloadable mp3 of the Feldman available at http://mp3.rapidlibrary.com/mp3.php?...ello+and+piano , courtesy of the Feldman Archive from SUNY-Buffalo. Sounds suspiciously like a BBC Radio 3 broadcast to me.

[Don Petter]

Wow... never heard that. I like Piano & Winds (W.A.M). Got a recommended recording, Don?

(Actually, I love the quintet form generally - rare for me to find one I don't like. Esp with piano and/or clarinet involved)

Well, my favourite was always the (members of) Vienna Octet version on an Ace of Diamonds LP, which I thought wasn't ever on CD. But your response has spurred me to investigate, and it is now on an Eloquence double CD called Romantic Chamber Music (slight Ugh!) - 4802397, which I have just ordered. Thank you!

A very attractive work, with a terrifically incisive first movement. On the cited recording you have the bonus of hearing what sounds like the horn player getting rid of a little excess liquid from his instrument during the slow movement.

Do give it a try.

[Nick Armstrong]

Well, my favourite was always the (members of) Vienna Octet version on an Ace of Diamonds LP, which I thought wasn't ever on CD. But your response has spurred me to investigate, and it is now on an Eloquence double CD called Romantic Chamber Music (slight Ugh!) - 4802397, which I have just ordered. Thank you!

A very attractive work, with a terrifically incisive first movement. On the cited recording you have the bonus of hearing what sounds like the horn player getting rid of a little excess liquid from his instrument during the slow movement.

Do give it a try.

You are very welcome.

And I see it includes the Berwald Septet which I heard the other morning while travelling, on R3 - and liked. A purchase, I think. Thank you.

PS: LOL http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-lis...condition=used