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Brahms - String Quartets | Deutsche Grammophon 4776458

Brahms - String Quartets

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Label: Deutsche Grammophon

Cat No: 4776458

Barcode: 0028947764588

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 2

Genre: Chamber

Release Date: 16th April 2007

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To coincide with its 30th anniversary in May 2007, the Emerson String Quartet have taken on one of the most important bodies of string quartet literature from the 19th century: the String Quartets of Johannes Brahms.
 
In addition to the composer's three String Quartets, this specially priced two-CD set also includes Brahms's Piano Quintet, a richly coloured and highly romantic masterpiece for which the Emersons teamed up with legendary pianist Leon Fleisher.
 
This pairing of artists is unique on the market and a worthy follow-up to the Emersons' series of complete quartet anthologies, which includes Beethoven, Mendelssohn, and Shostakovich, among others.
 
Lavish, deeply romantic works performed by the world's leading string quartet.
 
'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.' BBC Music Magazine
 
 
Track Listing:
 
CD 1
 
String Quartet in C minor op. 51 no. 1
Seinem Freunde Dr. Theodor Billroth in Wien zugeeignet
(Dedicated to his friend Dr. Theodor Billroth in Vienna)
[1] Allegro
[2] Romanze: Poco Adagio
[3] Allegro molto moderato e comodo - Un poco pił animato
[4] Allegro

String Quartet in A minor op. 51 no. 2
Seinem Freunde Dr. Theodor Billroth in Wien zugeeignet
[5] Allegro non troppo
[6] Andante moderato
[7] Quasi Minuetto, moderato - Allegretto vivace
[8] Finale: Allegro non assai - Pił vivace
 
CD 2
 
String Quartet no. 3 in B flat major op. 67
Seinem Freunde Professor Theodor Wilhelm Engelmann in Utrecht zugeeignet
(Dedicated to his friend Professor Theodor Wilhelm Engelmann in Utrecht)
[1] Vivace
[2] Andante
[3] Agitato (Allegretto non troppo) - Trio
[4] Poco Allegretto con Variazioni - Doppio Movimento
 
Piano Quintet in f minor op. 34
(Dedicated to Her Royal Highness Princess Anna of Hesse)
[5] Allegro non troppo
[6] Andante, un poco Adagio
[7] Scherzo: Allegro - Trio
[8] Finale: Poco sostenuto - Allegro non troppo - Presto, non troppo
 
 
Artists:

Emerson String Quartet
     Eugene Drucker, 1st violin (op. 51 no. 1, op. 34), 2nd violin (op. 51 no. 2, op. 67)
     Philip Setzer, 1st violin (op. 51 no. 2, op. 67), 2nd violin (op. 51 no. 1, op. 34)
     Lawrence Dutton, viola/alto · David Finckel, cello
Leon Fleisher, piano (Leon Fleisher appears by courtesy of Vanguard Classics)


 

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