Conductor, Ivan Huckerby from St. Stephen's Hall, Birmingham

' Thomas Hardy at Max Gate '
Gertrude Bugler

Pianoforte Quintet in A, Op. 81
1 Allegro ma non tanto. 2 Dumka: Andante con moto. 3 Furiant: Molto vivace. 4 Finale: Allegro played by The Norbert Wethmar Pianoforte
Quintet:
Norbert Wethmar (violin)
Nathan Comras (violin)
John Yewe Dyer (viola)
Walter Nunn (violoncello) and Wilfred Parry (pianoforte)
Dvorak's Piano Quintet was written in 1887. It is one of the finest of his chamber works : ' an absolute revelation says Ottokar Sourek , ' of the personality of Dvorak, a man apparently locked within . himself, moving only in the sphere of divine beauty, now plunged in gloomy meditation, his vision lost in eternity, now smiling brightly, bubbling over with happiness and breaking forth in outbursts of the frankest joy. Such a spirit was Dvorak, and thus he appears in this quintet--one of the freshest and most characteristic creations of his genius.' The composer makes brilliant use of the ' Furiant ' in the scherzo movement.

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Reg Pursglove and his Orchestra