Piano Quintet in A Major Op. 81 by Antonín Dvořák
GUEST: Piano, Dr. Jessica Madsen
The Piano Quintet in A major, Op. 81, is easily one of the finest examples of late Romantic chamber music. Written between August and October 1887, the Quintet was not Dvorák’s first attempt at composing in the form. His first attempt nearly a decade earlier was never much to his liking and remained unpublished and largely ignored. Only after a string of successes and small triumphs did Dvorák return to the Quintet in the hopes of revising it but soon aborted the piece altogether and began work on an entirely new work.
Southbank Quartet
Evan Hurley, violin
Paul Yoshida, violin
Hannah Gerbus, viola
Ellen Stephens, cello
