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... — More…
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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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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. — More…
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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 — More…
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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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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... — More…
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Building a Library, October 2016, Also Recommended
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Brahms - Complete String Quartets, Quintets & Sextets
RecommendedCecil Aronowitz (viola), William Pleeth (cello), Christoph Eschenbach (piano), Karl Leister (clarinet)
Amadeus Quartet
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Building a Library, October 2016, Also Recommended
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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.... — More…
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Warm, sympathetic accounts of Brahms's sublime Sextets from this Swiss quartet and friends, though lacking the intensity of, say, the Nash Ensemble's recording. — More…
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