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Johannes Brahms
Brahms: String Quartets; Piano Quintet
Genre: Classical

Track Listings (4) - Disc #1
1. String Quartet In C Minor, Op.51 No.1
2. String Quartet In A Minor, Op.51 No.2
3. Piano Quintet In F Minor, Op. 34
4. String Quartet In B Flat Major, Op. 67

CD Details

All Artists: Johannes Brahms
Title: Brahms: String Quartets; Piano Quintet
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: Decca Import
Original Release Date: 1/1/2005
Re-Release Date: 2/2/2005
Album Type: Import
Genre: Classical
Styles: Chamber Music, Symphonies
Number of Discs: 2
SwapaCD Credits: 2
UPCs: 028947565253, 0028947565253

Synopsis

Album Details

The Takács Quartet Began their Exclusive Association with Decca in 1988 and One of their First Recordings was the Disc Containing Brahms?s Two Quartets, Op.51. This was Followed by a Disc Containing the Only Other String Quartet by Brahms ? Op.67 ? and this was Coupled with the Piano Quintet, Op.34, In which the Takács Quartet was Joined by a Fellow-hungarian, Pianist András Schiff.

CD Reviews

Exciting!

Musicus | Oslo, Norway | 05/23/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"It is good news that these gems are reissued as a Double Decca. The works are really good: I find op. 51 younger and fresher than most of Brahm's works. Op. 34 and 67 feel more opulent. The no-nonsense interpretations of the Takacs Quartet are really engaging, interpretations with lots of energy, very exciting, wonderful drive. The sound is somehow big, lush, resonant. I've had these in more than ten years now and am not going to have any other recordings of these wonderful works. A double to a nice price which really is a bargain.

PS: I know the Borodin quartet on the same works; the Borodins go only for beauty, not exciting at all."