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Brahms - String Quartets and Piano Quintet | Alpha ALPHA248

Brahms - String Quartets and Piano Quintet

Label: Alpha

Cat No: ALPHA248

Barcode: 3760014192487

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 2

Release Date: 9th September 2016

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About

More than twelve years after its initial incursion into the music of Brahms, the Belcea Quartet now presents an eagerly awaited complete recording of his string quartets. A powerful style and a sense of musical architecture are the two qualities most often attributed to the Belcea, which is now one of the top international quartets. And those characteristics blossom to the full in Brahms. For the Piano Quintet, its members are joined by Till Fellner. This Austrian former student of Alfred Brendel is one of today’s most respected pianists, combining grace, rigour and musical intelligence.

Reviews

This recording features intense and wonderful quartet playing: lucid and agitated, sleek and muscular, with Corina Belcea’s silvery-lean first violin sound balanced by the huge warmth at the centre of the ensemble from violist Kzystof Chorzelski. In the Piano Quintet, pianist Till Fellner’s light touch makes him less of a soloist, more of an integrated texture...  Kate Molleson
The Guardian 6 October 2016

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