Saint-Saëns quatuor avec piano op.41 - Chausson : Quatuor avec piano op.30)

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Same training, same era, and yet radically different works: here is the highly anticipated reading of the Piano Quartets by Saint-Saëns and Chausson by the Schubert Ensemble. It would be difficult to find a clearer demonstration of the diversity of French music at the end of the 19th century, especially since neither of the piano quartets conforms to the usual cliché that French music is light, graceful, charming, or anything that approaches the intellectual. From the elegant and spirited writing of Saint-Saëns' Piano Quartet in E-flat major to the vigorous yet relatively unknown writing of Chausson's Piano Quartet in A major, the Schubert Ensemble presents two extremes of the French romantic repertoire, thus offering a rare, appealing, and diverse program.