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…in the Piano Quintet. Martin Roscoe and the Sorrels offer a dynamic and intense performance with Roscoe bringing marvellous shape and colour to the piano part. — BBC Music Magazine, September 2005, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 8th Aug 2005
Catalogue No: CHAN10329
Label: Chandos
Length: 76 minutes

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Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 1 in C Major, Op. 49

Work length14:55

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Sorrel Quartet

I. Moderato

Track length4:31

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II. Moderato

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III. Allegro molto

Track length2:16

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IV. Allegro

Track length3:23

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Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 12 in D flat major, Op. 133

Work length29:07

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Sorrel Quartet

II. Moderato

Track length7:41

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III. Allegretto - Adagio - Allegretto

Track length21:26

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Shostakovich: Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 57

Work length32:48

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Sorrel Quartet, Martin Roscoe

I. Prelude. Lento

Track length4:46

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II. Fugue. Adagio

Track length11:00

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III. Scherzo. Allegretto

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IV. Intermezzo. Lento

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V. Finale. Allegretto

Track length7:23

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September 2005

…in the Piano Quintet. Martin Roscoe and the Sorrels offer a dynamic and intense performance with Roscoe bringing marvellous shape and colour to the piano part.

2010

Volume 6 of the Sorrel Quartet's Shostakovich series gives us two of his outwardly formulaic works framing one of his most audacious, the Twelfth Quartet. It's a rather peculiar programme, not that this need bother anyone collecting this particular intégrale.
The playing is as idiomatic as you might expect from an ensemble once coached by Rostislav Dubinsky, founder member and first leader of the Borodin Quartet. True, the almost casual opening of the First Quartet is not ideally euphonious and, in the first movement of the Twelfth, there's a momentary lapse of concentration from the viola, whose expressive swoops elsewhere may not be to all tastes. What matters more is the palpable, very human sense of engagement, something you don't always get from glitzier groups.
Given that the best recordings of the Piano Quintet are 20 years old and either tucked away or buried altogether, the present account is not unwelcome, though it is relatively small-scale.
It's the subtle intimacy of the final pay-off one remembers, the warmth of the Maltings acoustic masking any thinness of tone.

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