Brahms: Piano Quintet in F Min / Complete String Quartets (1, 2, 3)
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Composer: Johannes BrahmsPerformer: Leon Fleisher
Performer: Emerson String Quartet
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2007-05-08
Music Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Allegro
- Romanze: Poco Adagio
- Allegro Molto Moderato E Comodo-Un Poco Piu Animato
- Allegro
- Allegro Non Troppo
- Andante Moderato
- Quasi Minuetto, Moderato-Allegretto Vivace
- Finale: Allegro Non Assai
- Vivace
- Andante
- Agitato (Allegretto Non Troppo)-Trio
- Poco Allegretto Con Variazioni-Doppio Movimento
- Allegro Non Troppo
- Andante, Un Poco Adagio
- Scherzo: Allegro-Trio
- Finale: Poco Sostenuto-Allegro Non Troppo-Presto, Non Troppo
Music reviews of Brahms: Piano Quintet in F Min / Complete String Quartets (1, 2, 3)
Music Review: Sublime Brahms from the Emersons
Rating: 5 Stars
Johannes Brahms did not tackle the form of the symphony before he had mastered such chamber music forms as the string quartet, piano trio and piano quintet, perhaps as a kind of "rehearsal" for the larger (though not necessarily less demanding) symphonic form. He did not publish any string quartets until he had written 20 of them - which he did not publish! Thus, the three string quartets he finally chose to publish were to be true masterpieces of the genre, though out and honed to perfection to the minutest detail.
This is not to say that Brahms' string quartets (nor any of his other chamber music) are dry academic exercises, in
which Brahms set himself a problem and found a way to solve it. Far from it; they are passionate and profound works, and should be heard by all chamber music lovers.
Yet it seems that Brahms' quartets are not held in so great an esteem as they should be, for example, when compared to Beethoven's or Schubert's quartets. In this they resemble the string quartets of Brahms' friend, Robert Schumann, whose quartets are also not so very well known. A typical reaction seems to be that by Charles T. Downey of the Ionarts Web page, who, writing in a review of this recording by the Emerson Quartet, regards Brahms' string quartets as "not essential works even for fans of Brahms' chamber music." Although evaluations of music are to a very large extent a matter of personal taste, that is to me quite an astonishing statement (although Downey's review of the recording is generally appreciative, he has this odd reservation about the quartets. Not so with the Amazon reviewers here...).
The more I listen to these wonderful and many-sided works, the more I seem to get out of them. This is perhaps because they reveal their melodic content not in a series of easily hummable tunes, but gradually, through the economy of their execution and intensity of their feeling. To me, they are uniquely powerful and successful works, owing perhaps to the fact that Brahms took so great pains in "preparing the way" before actually composing them.
To this, add the warm and sonorous recording. The Emersons really shine in these works, most of all in the Piano Quintet, of which the ensemble, together with pianist Leon Fleischer, gives an altogether sublime performance. The
quality of the recorded sound is excellent, as in most other recordings by the Emersons I have heard. These are now the reference versions indeed!
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