0 Bartók and his wife played the two piano version of his Piano Quintet and a recording also exists of the Capriccio Op. It began life in 1861 as a string quintet with two cellos. 34 (1864) Program Notes for the 2002 - 2003 Season Compositions Performed.
Schubert: Fantasie for Violin and Piano, D934, excerpts with James Ehnes, violin, and Inon Barnatan, piano. Of the various combinations of the piano with strings, the piano quintet has the greatest sonority and orchestra- like qualities - although, as this is chamber music, all players perform as soloists.
In 1890, with the completion of his superb Viola Quintet in G, he declared that his creative output was at an end, and that (at age 57) he would spend his remaining days ordering his affairs and his earlier compositions, and relaxing.
