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Brahms - String Quartet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 51 No. 1
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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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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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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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The emotional palette is broad: surging intensity is balanced emotionally by tenderness, delicate sensitivity, and…even by touches of humour. But the balance is architectural too. It may be... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2015, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Finalist - Chamber
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throughout this set, the Novus’s focus seems to be on textual transparency. Such clarity is welcome in the opening movement of the A minor Quartet, which all too often sounds clotted. And with... —
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Their approach is alert, texturally clear and passionate … these are admriable performances which I recommend to any prospective buyer … this new Takács reading weighs in at the top end of the... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2009, Finalist - Chamber
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Special offer. Johannes Brahms: String Quartet No. 1 & Clarinet Quintet, Op. 115
Aris Quartett, Thorsten Johanns (clarinet)
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The C minor Quartet requires playing of the utmost passion if its complex textures are not to sound clogged, and this is what it receives here, though the delicacy and affection the players... —
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Building a Library, September 2010, First Choice
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