Programmation
Joseph Haydn
Quatuor à cordes en si bémol majeur op. 76/4, «Lever de soleil»
23 min
Antonín Dvořák
Quintette avec piano en la majeur, op. 81
40 min
Distribution
Jean-Yves Thibaudet
piano
Haydn’s Quatuor op. 76/4 owes its nickname “Sunrise” to its superb opening, a radiant violin passage soaring up to the heavens; in Dvořák’s quintet it is the cello which grips the listener from the very first bars. Both these works prove to be as sublime as their openings suggest, a promising event…