Dvorak: The Complete String Quintets

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Music Review: You'll get what you pay for--a letdown
Rating: 3 Stars

In the event, only Kovacevich's beautifully shaped contribution to the Piano Quintet, Op. 81 lives up to expectations. The other performances are uniformly marked by scrappy, out-of-tune playing and thin, shrill tone from the members of the Berlin Philharmonic Octet. It's hard to tell how much of the acoustic stems from the actual performances, how much from the possibly poor sound of the original analog recording, and how much might be due to the CD transfer. It doesn't really matter. Better, if more expensive, versions of all of these pieces are available on CD, particularly of the delightful Quintet in E-flat and Piano Quintet. Spend a little more and get performances that will stand the test of time, as these have not.

General CDs

• Styles > Classical
• Chamber Music > General
• Quintets
• Sextets
• Featured Composers, A-Z > ( D ) > Dvor?k, Anton?n
• Featured Performers, A-Z > ( K ) > Kovacevich, Stephen
• Historical Periods > Classical (c.1770-1830) > Forms & Genres > Chamber Music
• Classical - Featured Composers, A-Z - ( D ) - Dvor?k, Anton?n - General