Josef Labor - Piano Quintet in E minor, Op. 3

[@f1f1s]

What an ending! Have not heard such determination in a long time. The chord progression is as decisive as the one in the finale of Glazunov Sonata No.2!

[@mediolanumhibernicus3353]

What great work Olla-vogala’ does for us. Much appreciated. Many thanks.

[@steveegallo3384]

Excellent......BRAVO from Acapulco!

[@JanKlassiek]

Ja eine Fundgrube, an amazing discovery! And: a very nice performance!

[@matiasnorenamuriel7069]

1:01 I love this extract. It's written in my favorite tonality and the chord conducting at the piano is amazing.

[@bigcedock]

Danke, Herr Labor, for writing a fine quintet including the contrabass -- we of that persuasion, or, at least formerly, give thanks.

[@archierice333]

heavenly - truly !!

[@fredericchopin7538]

Wonderful!

[@dlackey88]

Ludwig Wittgenstein said there were six great composers: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms and Labor. Labor was a frequent guest at Haus Wittgenstein, so Ludwig may have been a little prejudiced. But the music is very fine.

[@jamesorr6537]

Perhaps a bit prejudiced, but as the brother of Paul Wittgenstein, Ludwig is likely to have been a perceptive music lover. And I find this work to be a very fine composition, never boring or predictable.

[@Rotaermel]

I'm just reading Wittgenstein und googeled Labor. One of Wittgenstein's remarks on Labor: "Labour is, where he writes good music, absolutely unromantic. That's a very strange and meaningful sign." No clue what he means by that.

[@sanderspoelstra8961]

​@LX Forde If someone doesn't think J.S. Bach is the greatest, that's fine. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion! It just happens that their opinion would be wrong.

[@СергейЛовцов-ъ2э]

I suppose it was a joke) great quintet however

[@marichristian1072]

Heart-breakingly beautiful. I've never heard this piece before, but it strongly reminds me of Brahms' finest chamber music.

[@olla-vogala4090]

+Mari Christian Me too! Labor is again one of those almost completely forgotten composers, who actually made sensitive and well-crafted music like this.

[@marichristian1072]

I thank you for introducing me to a completely new set of composers, olla-vogala. It's difficult to understand why they are not more widely played and acknowledged . This quintet is stunning.

[@olla-vogala4090]

+Mari Christian I agree. Hopefully they will reach a wider audience through these uploads!

[@olla-vogala4090]

ClassicMusicVids I'm not sure it surpasses Brahms, but it's almost on his level of craftsmanship for sure. Which is quite the praise already, I'd say :)

[@steveegallo3384]

@@ClassicMusicVidsUSA -- Indeed....SCINTILLATING! BRAVI TUTTI from Acapulco!

[@jeanpaulchoppart6818]

The first Trio of the Scherzo ( 11:10 to 12:35 ) is magical.

[@jeanpaulchoppart6818]

@Manuel Oscar The channelmaster should delete such idiotic comments. Because of these comments, I got a notification. What a waste of time.

[@johnstag1391]

Exquisite in every way.

[@MarcosPabloDalmacio]

Superb work! Klein meister? No! They were truly great, with a complete control of technique and marvelous ideas!

[@gerardbegni2806]

This is a beautiful score richly and delicately harmonized though with no licence written by a perfectly unknown composer - at lest for me. The sophisticated harmonies sound more German than French, in spite of a very light writing which very far from both Wagner and Barahmps, for instance. A kind of German Gabriel Fauré, if I may say.

[@johnstag1391]

❤

[@WiseCaveOwl]

another fine composer who labor'd in Brahms shadow

[@mcrettable]

yea i wouldn't be surprised if this was mid-late brahms.

[@EmilianoManna]

L O L

[@antoineroche2073]

@@mcrettable It's rythmically/harmonically/contrapuntally very poorer than Brahms.

[@bluelemonade1039]

10:25 16:03 27:27

[@kuang-licheng402]

nice