The Viennese Quintet

Completed in Vienna on 19 April 1787, stands among the grandest achievements of his chamber music, expanding the string-quartet ideal into a five-voice texture of almost symphonic reach. Written when Mozart was 31, it forms a deliberate foil to the companion Quintet in G minor, K. 516, finished less than a month later.

Both quintets exploit the second viola not merely to thicken chords, but to open a middle register where harmonic meaning can be negotiated in real time, often by the very instruments (viola and cello) that, in much late-18th-century chamber music, are asked to accompany rather than to argue. (The Mozart Portal)

A late work, the String Quintet in G major dates from 1890, in the last decade of Brahms’ life. Brahmsian hallmarks pervade the work, from the cross accents and rhythmically playful hemiolas in the opening 9/8 movement to the bittersweet melancholy of the D-minor Adagio and typically Brahmsian allegretto intermezzo. The Hungarian folk element of the finale calls back to the composer’s celebrated Hungarian Dances. (David Fick)

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