Brahms: String Quartet No. 1 & Piano Quintet

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It’s 0 to 100 in three seconds: from the first notes and initial crescendo of the Brahms Op. 51 No. 1, the Brodsky Quartet means serious business. All of this long-established ensemble’s considerable... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2016, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 1st Apr 2016
Catalogue No: CHAN10892
Label: Chandos
Length: 76 minutes

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Brahms: String Quartet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 51 No. 1

Work length33:54

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Brodsky Quartet
Recorded: 8-10 September 2015
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk

I. Allegro

Track length11:02

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II. Romanze. Poco Adagio

Track length7:38

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III. Allegretto molto moderato e comodo

Track length9:09

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IV. Allegro

Track length6:05

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Brahms: Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34

Work length42:30

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Brodsky Quartet, Natacha Kudritskaya
Recorded: 8-10 September 2015
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk

I. Allegro non troppo

Track length15:29

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II. Andante, un poco adagio

Track length9:01

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III. Scherzo. Allegro

Track length7:23

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IV. Finale. Poco sostenuto

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The Brodsky Quartet presents this second volume in its exploration of Brahms’s complete string quartets. The first, which also featured the Clarinet Quintet with Michael Collins, received numerous enthusiastic reviews, The Guardian praising the players for their ‘immaculate’ performance. The String Quartet, Op. 51 No. 1, featured here, was written alongside its contrasting companion, Op. 51 No. 2. Both were finally published in 1873 after having been held back for years by a typically self-doubting Brahms, until he had brought them to his own high standards of perfection. Op. 51 may be regarded as evidence of his concern to revive and reinvigorate a genre, the strong legacy of which went back to the generation of Mozart, Haydn, and, above all, Beethoven. The Quartet is joined by the young, prodigious Ukrainian pianist Natacha Kudritskaya in the Piano Quintet, a more adventurous work: it had started life as a String Quintet, which Brahms then transcribed as a sonata for two pianos. The final version gives as much importance to the strings as to the piano.

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June 2016

It’s 0 to 100 in three seconds: from the first notes and initial crescendo of the Brahms Op. 51 No. 1, the Brodsky Quartet means serious business. All of this long-established ensemble’s considerable prowess is brought to bear on the composer’s turbulent chamber music: an enormous and remarkable intensity suffuses the atmosphere throughout. The result is inspiring, profoundly unsettling and a true visceral thrill

June 2016

These are performances that are not afraid to relax, which don’t insist on maintaining constant tension to keep the pieces taut and together…the playing in the Quintet is similar and matched well by that of Natacha Kudritskaya, who plays very much as part of the team…it’s an approach that makes a fascinating contrast to more conventionally forceful and richly drawn accounts

17th April 2016

The Brodskys hold clarity and passion in fine balance in the C minor quartet, while in the thrilling F minor quintet, the Ukrainian pianist adds an effective bite to the often clamorous texture from the off

10th April 2016

they excel in a wide range of repertoire, and this performance of the Brahms Piano Quintet...with the Ukrainian pianist Natacha Kudritskaya, is big-boned, impassioned and, especially in the Andante, warm and lyrical.

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