Brahms - String Sextet No. 1 in B flat major, Op. 18
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Brahms: String Sextets
RecommendedBelcea Quartet, Tabea Zimmermann (viola), Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello)
The two works have attracted numerous fine recordings, but here a luxury cast of the Belcea Quartet, Tabea Zimmermann and Jean-Guihen Queyras bring us a really special one – full-toned, warm-hearted... —
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Record Review, 12th March 2022, Record of the Week
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Finalist - Chamber
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Gramophone Awards, 2022 Finalists
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Chamber Music
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2023, Nominated - Chamber
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Special offer. Brahms: String Sextets Nos. 1 & 2
Live from Aix Easter Festival 2016
Renaud Capuçon, Christoph Koncz (violins), Gérard Caussé, Marie Chilemme (violas) & Gautier Capuçon, Clemens Hagen (cellos)
Theirs is music-making of rare intimacy and shared enjoyment - one has the sense of listening in on six musicians at the top of their game, playing as they might in a cosy domestic setting. —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2017, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Finalist - Chamber
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Gorgeous chamber music-making - urgently recommended —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2007, Editor's Choice
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Building A Library, April 2025, Recommended Recording (Sextet No. 1)
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Meticulously balanced, deeply felt chamber-scale performances that may lack the charismatic surge of the LPO principals in the String sextet No. 1 (on EMI), but capture the String Sextet No.... —
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Building a Library, October 2016, Also Recommended
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Brahms: String Sextet Op. 18
RecommendedHartmut Rohde (viola), Michael Sanderling (violoncello)
Leipziger Streichquartett
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Building a Library, October 2016, First Choice
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Beethoven: Violin Concerto & Symphony No. 8
Augustin Dumay (violin, conductor), Augustin Dumay, Miguela da Silva, Svetlin Roussev, Henri Demarquette, Marie Chilemme, Aurelien Pascal (sextet)
Sinfonia Varsovia, Kansai Philharmonic
The familiar warmth is still there, but now there's a much firmer sense of disciplined purposefulness, and barely a rubato in sight. Whatever your opinions on the morality of style, there's... —
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Completed after the First Piano Concerto, but still comparatively early works, the Sextets are typified by lush textures, ardent emotion, and wonderfully memorable melodic lines. The first is... —
