Emilie Mayer: Piano Quartets Nos. 1 & 2

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Not only am I mightily impressed with these piano quartets, I am thrilled that they are given such excellent performances by the Mariani Piano Quartet. I can find nothing to be critical of in... — Fanfare, September/October 2021 More…

Release Date: 2nd Mar 2018
Catalogue No: 555094-2
Label: CPO
Length: 62 minutes

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Mayer, E: Piano Quartet in E-Flat Major

Work length29:44

Mariani Klavierquartett

I. Allegro con moto

Track length10:14

II. Scherzo

Track length5:59

III. Un poco adagio

Track length8:14

IV. Finale. Allegro

Track length5:17

Mayer, E: Piano Quartet in G major

Work length33:00

Mariani Klavierquartett

I. Andante - Allegro

Track length10:30

II. Adagio

Track length7:10

III. Scherzo

Track length4:02

IV. Allegro

Track length11:18

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“Compositions that already on a first hearing leave behind a uniquely original impression.” This is what klassik-heute.com wrote after the release of CPO’s first CD with piano trios by Emilie Mayer. Her extensive chamber oeuvre for piano also contains two piano quartets. She composed these two works, one in E flat major and the other in G major, at the end of the 1850s. At the time Emilie Mayer was an esteemed composer residing in Berlin: most of her works were performed with success, and she enjoyed broad recognition in music circles. Each of her quartets consists of four movements. Here her model in formal matters was not so much Mozart or Beethoven but Schumann, whose sole Piano Quartet op.47 had been published a good fifteen years before. Considering her music as a whole, we may say that in her piano quartets, just as in her chamber oeuvre in general, Emilie Mayer was a compellingly independent composer with firm rooting in classical models who succeeded in developing a romantic musical language all of her own.

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September/October 2021

Not only am I mightily impressed with these piano quartets, I am thrilled that they are given such excellent performances by the Mariani Piano Quartet. I can find nothing to be critical of in this fine release.

Emilie Mayer: Piano Quartets Nos. 1 & 2

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