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Brahms - String Quintet No. 2 in G major, Op. 111
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Chamber » Quintets » String Quintets
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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... —
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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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There’s a wealth of characterisation within this richly unified, bronze-dark ensemble. A deep-dug, chunky tone, often quite rugged, is offset by moments of intense sweetness, as well as great... —
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2024, Recording of the Month
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Chamber Music
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One of the glories of their performances of both quintets is the fullness and richness of sound, something Brahms clearly strove to cultivate in his scoring. Paul Watkins's heroic, thrusting... —
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Building A Library, November 2021, Recommended Recording Recommended Recording
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Everything sounds as though it has been thought through extensively...The Takács's Brahms is like a superbly engineered road: we always know where we're going, and the views can be magnificent,... —
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Camerata Academica des Mozarteums Salzburg, Sandor Vegh
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The Brandis balance 'body and soul' with an intuitive understanding of Bruckner's idiom. —
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Building A Library, November 2021, Also Recommmended
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Conrad Hansen (piano), Heinrich Geuser (clarinet), Cecil Aronowitz (viola)
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Brahms - Complete String Quartets, Quintets & Sextets
RecommendedCecil Aronowitz (viola), William Pleeth (cello), Christoph Eschenbach (piano), Karl Leister (clarinet)
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Building a Library, October 2016, Also Recommended
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Special offer. Brahms Works for Viola II
Maxim Rysanov (viola), with Boris Brovtsyn (violins), Julia Deyneka (viola), Kristine Blaumane (cello), with Mariana Osipova, with Alice Coote (mezzo-soprano) & Ashley Wass (piano)
In the rhapsodic musings of the slow movement Rysanov becomes the idealised incarnation of the gypsy fiddler that Brahms surely had in mind when composing that uniquely florid part. The whole... —
