Dvořák and Price String Quintets album review – a pairing of passion and sparkle
By Erica Jeal
Florence Price’s Piano Quintet in A minor, composed in the mid-1930s, is yet another gem from the treasure trove of forgotten Price manuscripts discovered in 2009. The premiere recording was released by the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective only four years ago, but this new one, by the chamber-music dream team of the Takács Quartet and pianist Marc-André Hamelin, offers a different slant, placing the work more firmly in the classical tradition of the Dvořák with which it is paired.