Piano Quintet, GP 167 (Bax, Arnold)

Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's 3 movements
Composition Year 1915 or 1914-15
Genre Categories Quintets; For 2 violins, viola, cello, piano; Scores featuring the violin; Scores featuring the viola; Scores featuring the cello; Scores featuring the piano; For 5 players

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Performances

Sheet Music

Scores and Parts

 Complete Score
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⇒ 4 more: Violin 1 Part • Violin 2 Part • Viola Part • Cello Part

 Violin 1 Part
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 Violin 2 Part
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 Viola Part
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 Cello Part
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Editor First edition
Publisher. Info. London: Murdoch, Murdoch & Co., 1922. Plate M.M. & Co. 304.
Copyright
Public Domain [tag/del/mrg]
Misc. Notes Original images: 300dpi, color tif (from pdf) files approx. 2610 by 3700 pixels. Editing: re-sampled to 600dpi, converted to black and white tif files, de-skewed, and set uniform margins. Piano score suffers from serious page curvature.
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Free Recordings

  • Performance by Jonathan Powell (piano) and the Post Scriptum Quartet of Kyiv, Ukraine, at the 2010 Levoca (Slovakia) Festival.
First movement (first 12 minutes)
First movement (remainder)
Slow movement
Finale
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General Information

Work Title Quintet in G minor for Piano and Strings
Alternative. Title
Composer Bax, Arnold
Opus/Catalogue NumberOp./Cat. No. GP 167
I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No. IAB 33
Key G minor
Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's 3 movements
I. Tempo moderato. Con passione ("Passionate and Rebellious") -
Poco più lento - Moderato
II. Slow and serious (Lento serioso)
III. Moderate Tempo (Tempo moderato) - Allegro vivace - Più Largamente -
Tempo del Introduzione - Lento con Gran Espressione
Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp. 1915 or 1914-15
First Performance. 1920 May 12, London (public premiere)
Fanny Davies, piano; Bohemian String Quartet
First Publication. 1922 – London: Murdoch, Murdoch & Co.
Dedication Edwin Evans Jr. (1874-1945)
Average DurationAvg. Duration 45 minutes
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period Early 20th century
Piece Style Early 20th century
Instrumentation 2 violins, viola, cello, piano
External Links Baxworks site
All Music Guide
Wikipedia article (Dutch)

Navigation etc.

Semi-private premiere given in 1917.

Critic Edwin Evans Jr., the dedicatee (according to Naxos' notes for their recording of the quintet- perhaps in turn according to Bax's autobiography? will have to check...), is the son of Edwin Evans.

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