NOSPR chamber music/Metropolis Piano Quartet/Piano in good company

The piano quartet genre is quite rare in classical music. Two of Mozart's works set the bar sky-high. Previously, instruments in works for similar casts were not treated equally. Mozart combined the technical requirements of a piano concerto with the close chamber collaboration of string quartets. In the Quartet in G minor KV 478 we find wonderful singing — at that time Wolfgang was working on the opera The Marriage of Figaro and sprinkled melodies like out of his sleeve.

Richard Strauss's Piano Quartet in C minor closes the period of his youthful fascination with the chamber music of Johannes Brahms. Strauss spices up the seriousness of the genre with his love for drama and strong passions. And the French composer Karol Beffa's Café 2010 miniature looks as much at the Mozart tradition as at the Piazzolla tango...

Adam Suprynovich

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Performers: Metropolis Piano Quartet; Sulamita Ślubowska — violin; Dawid Jadamus — viola; Łukasz Frant — cello; Joanna Galon-Frant — piano

Program: Karol Beffa — Café 2010; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Piano Quartet in G minor KV 478; Richard Strauss — Piano Quartet in C minor Op. 13