Dvorak gave the piano a heavy involvement in this beautiful chamber work. The second movement is patterned after the “Dumka” dance form. Beautiful melodies, wonderful orchestration. A quintet of rare quality. In short, wonderful music! Includes a complete, high-quality printed music score; and a compact disc, voluminously indexed for ease of practice, containing a complete performance with soloist, then performed again with accompaniments only, minus you, the soloist.

Performed by Harriet Wingreen, piano

Accompaniment: Manhattan String Quartet