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Wolfgang A. MOZART Duo for Violin and Viola in G major, K. 423 (1783)Alexander von ZEMLINSKY Trio in D minor for Clarinet, Cello and Piano, Op. 3 (1896)
Antonín DVOŘÁK Piano Quartet in E-flat major, Op. 87 (1889)
Romie de Guise-Langlois, clarinet; Isabelle Ai Durrenberger, violin; Marcus Thompson, viola; Raman Ramakrishnan, cello; Max Levinson, piano
Mozart disguised his authorship of the Duo for Violin and Viola, K. 423 to help his ill friend, composer Michael Haydn, meet a deadline. The three‑movement work reflects Mozart’s mature chamber style and showcases unusually equal interplay between the two instruments. / Zemlinsky sets a subdued atmosphere in the opening of his Trio for Clarinet, Cello and Piano, a work widely thought to be modeled after Brahms’s trio for the same instruments. Zemlinsky blends the deep sonorities of cello and clarinet to great lyrical effect throughout this three-movement work, while placing the greatest technical demands on the pianist. / Dvořák composed his Piano Quartet in E-flat major in a mere nine days at his summer home in Vysoká, Bohemia. “The melodies just surged upon me,” he wrote to a friend. A rhapsodic spirit animates the work, from its robust texture and melodic inventiveness to its diversity of musical characters.
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