Within their genre, the two piano quintets by Franz Lachner (1803-1890), written in 1868 and 1869, mark the transition from the classic period to the romantic one. Our new editions of the works which had not been available for a long time contain an extensive preface in three languages in which the editor Jost Michaels -for many years professor for chamber music at the Detmold conservatory - compares those two quintets which Lachner composed as sisterly pieces complementing one another in juxtap...

• Allegro
• Più mosso
• Andante pesante, quasi Adagio
• Allegro
• Allegro non troppo