Natasha Loges compares recordings of Brahms's String Quintet No 1 in F major, Op 88, and chooses her favourite. Show more Natasha Loges compares recordings of Brahms's String Quintet No 1 in F major, ...

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Brahms famously ran into problems with a two-cello string quintet, which metamorphosed into a work for two pianos, and then into the great Piano Quintet we know today. Small wonder, then, that his two ...

There is an irresistible sweep here to the opening movement of the C minor Quartet Op 51 no 1. For all its technical accomplishment and ever increasing musical authority the Belcea is still a young ...

Two of the great cornerstones of 19th-century chamber music were written by Brahms. Each, in a very different way, is a colossus, and each is a total masterpiece: of structure, craftsmanship and ...

These recordings prove that the Nash Ensemble, Britain’s peerless chamber group, is in better shape than ever. I can’t remember a keener musical pleasure in recent months than hearing violinists ...

Brahms claimed to have written and destroyed 20 string quartets before he managed to complete any he wanted to keep. The two quartets of his Op. 51, which he wrote in 1873, ended a quarter century ...

There's a unique opportunity to enjoy the rich and rapturous string quintets of Mozart and Brahms when the New Zealand String Quartet are joined by German violist Hariolf Schlichtig for a nationwide ...

Aston Magna is on the move this summer. At least temporally speaking. “Winds of Romanticism” was the title of Thursday night’s program at Brandeis’s Slosberg Auditorium. After having pitched its tent ...