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unusual facts about Piano quintet


Clio-Danae Othoneou

Winter 2007-2008 with the support of Ministry of Mercantile Marine, tours the islands of Aegean in the frames of 1st Festival Aegean Archipelagos, with the performance “TOTALARTE” with the work of Camille Saint-Saëns, Le Carnaval des animaux (The Carnival of the Animals), in adaptation and artistic assiduity Yannis Georgiadis for piano and string quintet.


Alexis de Castillon

It was under Franck's aegis that Castillon composed his Opus 1, a piano quintet (he disavowed earlier efforts, including a symphony in F major which he had written in 1865).

Richard Fuchs

He wrote further chamber music, another string quartet and a piano quintet, songs, including A New Zealand Christmas to the words of Eileen Duggan, which was sung for the Queen during her 1953 visit to Rotorua by a Maori girls' choir, and in a Broadcast to Schools by T. J. ("Tommy") Young's children's choir.


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Clelia Iruzun

She has premiered a number or works by Brazilian composers, including the piano quintet by Henrique Oswald and the Octet by Villa-Lobos in the UK, João Guilherme Ripper's Piano Sonata, Desafio for Piano and Guitar and Sonata Breve by Marlos Nobre at the South Bank Centre and Wigmore Hall.

Fanny Mendelssohn Quartet

In 1997 the ensemble recorded the great piano chamber music of Max Reger, his Piano Quintet c minor and his two Piano Quartets (Wolfram Lorenzen, piano).

Joseph Genualdi

With pianist Jean-Philippe Collard, the Muir Quartet (with Genualdi as first violin) won the Grand Prix du Disque for their recording of the César Franck piano quintet.

Quatuor Arpeggione

In 2005, Margaret Fingerhut played César Franck's passionate Piano Quintet with the quatuor at the Conway Hall in London.

Watson Forbes

He toured the UK in a piano quintet which included Denis Matthews, Frederick Grinke and James Whitehead.