Pianoforte Quartet in E flat, Op. 87
1 Allegro con fuoco. 2 Lento. 3 Allegro moderato, grazioso. 4 Allegro ma non troppo played by The English Ensemble:
Marjorie Hayward (violin)
Rebecca Clarke (viola)
May Mukle (violoncello).
Kathleen Long (pianoforte)
Dvorak's Piano Quartet in E flat, composed in 1889, is one of his most superb works: serious, virile, a model of good workmanship. Nor is the characteristic lyrical element lacking ; the slow movement shows Dvorak at his lyrical best. To judge the Czech master merely by his more superficial, rather naively charming compositions, without taking into account such fine works as this, is to do him serious injustice.