The New Zealand String Quartet has a distinguished track record on disc, balancing homegrown with international repertoire. Its latest Naxos release offers the first two string quartets of Brahms, ...
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This disc is dedicated to the memory of one of the people playing on it: viola player Friedemann Weigle, who died in July aged 53. He joined the Berlin-based Artemis Quartet in 2007. Brahms gives ...
The Brodsky Quartet started young and, with a couple of changes of leader during their lifetime, celebrated their 40th anniversary in 2012. Great musical ambassadors, they excel in a wide range of ...
The Takács Quartet also offer a rival recording of the C minor String Quartet (their Hyperion remake, which follows almost two decades after their first recording for Decca, 9/90 R). While both the ...
Brahms claimed to have written and destroyed 20 string quartets before he managed to complete any he wanted to keep. The two quartets of his Op. 51, which he wrote in 1873, ended a quarter century ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Music Review By Vivien Schweitzer Brahms, an intensely self-critical composer who destroyed many of his works before publication, described his ...
Their own standpoint ranges freely from the tense to the tractable, the rhythm of the music always under control, tone sinewy rather than plush, and instrumental lines consistently in excellent ...
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