Gramophone Awards 2024
Shortlisted - Chamber

Isabelle Faust (violin), Anne-Katharina Schreiber (violin, Antoine Tamestit (viola), Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello), Alexander Melnikov (piano)

Schumann: Piano Quartet in E flat major, Op. 47
Schumann: Piano Quintet in E flat major, Op. 44

In his Piano Quartet and Quintet, Schumann revisited the frameworks inherited from Schubert and Beethoven to create astonishingly innovative structures.

Their grandiose musical and emotional gestures place these works among his supreme achievements.

The prestigious artists assembled here, with their extensive experience of performing Schumann’s chamber music and concertos, do full justice to his imaginative world.