Ornstein- Piano Quintet Op.92, String Quartet No.2

Product Description The young pianist-composer Leo Ornstein went from wowing the ladies with his virtuosity to writing a Violin Sonata in 1915 of such atonal violence that it frightened even him. By the late 1920s his style had become more rounded. In the exhilarating hands of Marc-André Hamelin and the Pacifica Quartet these performances of his Piano Quintet Op.92 and String Quartet No.2 fizz with exuberance. Review Pacifica Quartet are always worth hearing and with pianist Hamelin they certainly get all thats to be gotten from the Ornstein Quintet. --Positive Feedback