"Definitive" is a dangerous word to use about any performance, especially when the work in question is the rich and repeatedly recorded Piano Quintet Op. 34 by Brahms. But this eloquent, expansive and ...

Brahms: Piano Quintet in F minor, Op.34; String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op. 51/2 Borodin Quartet, Elizio Virzaladze, piano. (Teldec). The present members of the Borodin Quartet have played together ...

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 ...

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ASPEN – This was a good week at the Aspen Music Festival for chamber music, and especially Brahms. On Tuesday night, a Brahms string quintet hit a high point in the hands of the Takacs Quartet. And ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...