Brahms - Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34
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Brahms: Piano Quintet in F minor Op. 34 & String Quintet in G major Op. 111
RecommendedPavel Haas Quartet, Boris Giltburg (piano), Pavel Nikl (viola)
The Pavel Haas Quartet and Boris Giltburg take on [the Piano Quintet] with no holds barred: this is an allgiving, full-on version in which the sense of involvement is total and the exhilaration... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 13th May 2022
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Chamber Music
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2022
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With an almost ideal balance between piano and strings, the variety of articulation in their playing brings a marvellous textural variety to the full-blooded writing in the outer movements of... — More…
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Building a Library, April 2008, First Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2007, Chamber Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2008, Winner - Chamber
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Building a Library, April 2021, Also Recommended - Schumann Quintet
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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,... — More…
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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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Special offer. Brahms & Schumann – Chamber Music with Piano
Hrachya Avanesyan (violin), Boris Brovtsyn (violin), Alexander Chaushian (cello), Diemut Poppen (viola), Yevgeny Sudbin (piano)
There’s no lack of personalities on display here…here we have a band of equals…The players are thrillingly daring in the Scherzo [of the Schumann], taken at a breakneck tempo with fizzing accents,... — More…
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Record Review, 9th December 2017, Recording of the Week
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Brahms: String Quartet Op. 67 and Piano Quintet Op. 34
RecommendedKirill Gerstein (piano)
Hagen Quartett
This is technically flawless playing, and discipline and rigour also shape the interpretations. The plangent harmonies are kept firmly in order…The fine-boned vibrato is disciplined, occasional... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Chamber Music
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Diapason d’Or, February 2020, Nouveauté
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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. — More…
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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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Building a Library, October 2020, Recommended Recording
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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... — More…
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