"Definitive" is a dangerous word to use about any performance, especially when the work in question is the rich and repeatedly recorded Piano Quintet Op. 34 by Brahms. But this eloquent, expansive and ...

Except perhaps for the stately way in which the Clarinet Quintet begins, there are no surprises in these performances. Michael Collins plays with his usual suave assurance, the Brodsky Quartet manage ...

String Quintet No. 1 Johannes Brahms, Composer WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne Chamber Players String Quintet No. 2 Johannes Brahms, Composer WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne Chamber Players But whatever ...

Brahms famously ran into problems with a two-cello string quintet, which metamorphosed into a work for two pianos, and then into the great Piano Quintet we know today. Small wonder, then, that his two ...

Before it was finally transformed into perhaps the best-known of all Brahms's chamber works, the Piano Quintet in F minor Op 34 had begun life as a quintet for strings alone, its initial inspiration ...

String Quintet No. 2 Pavel Haas Quartet Boris Giltburg, Piano In 2018 the Pavel Haas Quartet won their sixth Gramophone Award for a recording coupling Dvořák’s Piano Quintet (with Boris Giltburg) and ...

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ASPEN – This was a good week at the Aspen Music Festival for chamber music, and especially Brahms. On Tuesday night, a Brahms string quintet hit a high point in the hands of the Takacs Quartet. And ...

These recordings prove that the Nash Ensemble, Britain’s peerless chamber group, is in better shape than ever. I can’t remember a keener musical pleasure in recent months than hearing violinists ...