Brahms - String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op. 51 No. 2
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Chamber » Quartets » String Quartets
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It's rare to come across truly revelatory performances of such oft-recorded repertory, but that's what the Zehetmair Quartet have given us here. —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2025, Editor's Choice
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When you have an intelligent, technically almost superhuman ensemble like the Emerson Quartet, playing with obvious feeling for the music, reservations about quartet-style fly out of the window. —
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2007, Chamber Choice
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Building a Library, November 2017, Also Recommended
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In 2003 the Belcea Quartet recorded a nerves-on-a-knife’s-edge account of Brahms’s C minor Quartet (Op 51 No 1) for EMI. Here, more than a decade on, their conception retains its essential ferocity,... —
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2016, Winner - Musique de Chambre
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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These new versions from Stephen Hough and the Takács Quartet strike me as even better, and in more modern sound … in both Quintet and Quartet the performers give bright, focused, alert, almost... —
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Special offer. Brahms: Complete String Quartets & Clarinet Sonatas
Quartetto Italiano, George Pietersen (clarinet), Hephzibah Menuhin (piano)
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Building a Library, November 2017, Also Recommended
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Special offer. The Alban Berg Quartet - The Teldec Recordings (1971-79)
RecommendedThe Alban Berg Quartet
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Building a Library, January 2009, First Choice
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Fierce, fiery Bartók that engages from the start and Brahms that has real shape and drive, although I could have done with more yearning passion. —
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Special offer. Brahms: The String Quartets & String Quintet No. 2
Dudok Quartet, Lilli Maijala (viola)
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