And maybe the two Dvorak Piano Quintets espec op. 81, the Mozart and Beethoven piano & wind quintets plus the less well known Atterberg quintet, the early Bartok Q5, the Bax, the two Berwald Q5s, Bloch, Boccherini (several), Cadman, Elgar, Enescu, Faure, Gubaidulina, Hadley, Hahn, Hummel, Korngold, Piston, Rubinstein, Saint Saens, Spohr, Widor, Wolf-Ferrari amd many others I'm sure.
Of these, and including the Franck, the Dvorak op. 81,the Elgar and the two by Faure plus the Mozart and Beethoven quintets for piano and wind are widely acknowledged as masterpieces (and I have a soft sport for the Boccherini quintets as well).
I'd hoped that Praga would have given us some of these by now, especially the Dvorak but also the French composers on my list, given Praga's French ownership. Chandos for Elgar and Bax??? Bis for Berwald?
And as for piano quartets (again incl Dvorak's pair) and trios still languishing on RB only, and other chamber works like the Brahms string sextets and quintets....at the rate we've progressed in the past ten years it'll be at least a decade before we hear them as they're meant to be heard, in HD.
Don't get me wrong, I'm grateful for what we've got but, like Edward G Robinson's character in "Key Largo", I want more.
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