The Ensō Quartet, founded at Yale University in 1999, has won numerous awards including top prizes at the Concert Artists Guild competition and the Banff International String Quartet Competition.
Performer Biography
Gottlieb Wallisch, the pianist on this recording, won first prize in The Stravinsky Awards in the USA at the age of sixteen, and was appointed professor of piano at the Geneva University of Music in 2010.
Composer Biography
Ernő Dohnányi, born in 1877, was a piano pupil of István Thomán, a former pupil of Liszt and principal piano teacher at the Budapest Music Academy.
Composition History
Dohnányi's First Piano Quintet was his first published work, composed in 1895, and received appreciative comments from Brahms.
Composer Biography
Dohnányi was President and Director of the Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra from 1919 until 1944.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Dohnányi's compositional style is rooted in the Austro-German classical tradition, and while he used Hungarian folk music, he was not a nationalist composer like Bartók or Kodály.
Composer Biography
Dohnányi embarked on concert tours throughout Europe, Russia, and the United States, establishing himself as a virtuoso pianist to equal Liszt.
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