Chamber, Brahms (composer)
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Brahms: Piano Quartets Nos. 2 & 3
RecommendedKrystian Zimerman (piano), Maria Nowak (violin), Katarzyna Budnik (viola), Yuya Okamoto (cello)
The A major Quartet is one of Brahms’s most open-hearted and immediately engaging chamber works. Zimerman and his colleagues deliver a superb performance capturing the outgoing qualities of... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 4th April 2025
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2025, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2025, Chamber Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2025 Winners, Chamber
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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The Times, Best Classical Albums of 2025
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Brahms: String Sextets
RecommendedBelcea Quartet, Tabea Zimmermann (viola), Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello)
The two works have attracted numerous fine recordings, but here a luxury cast of the Belcea Quartet, Tabea Zimmermann and Jean-Guihen Queyras bring us a really special one – full-toned, warm-hearted... —
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Record Review, 12th March 2022, Record of the Week
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Finalist - Chamber
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Gramophone Awards, 2022 Finalists
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Chamber Music
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2023, Nominated - Chamber
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Brahms & Bruckner: Motets
RecommendedMark Templeton (trombone), Helen Vollam (trombone), Patrick Jackman (trombone), Alexander Mason (organ)
Tenebrae, Nigel Short
Nigel Short and Tenebrae have come up with a beautifully balanced and contrasted programme…The beauty of sound and dignified expression of intensity that Tenebrae create in the opening of the... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Disc of the month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2016, Choral Winner
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Building a Library, December 2017, First Choice
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Building a Library, December 2017, First Choice
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Brahms: Clarinet Quintet
RecommendedMartin Fröst (clarinet), with Janine Jansen (violin), Boris Brovtsyn (violin), Maxim Rysanov (viola), Torleif Thedéen (cello), with Roland Pöntinen (piano), with Torleif Thedéen (cello) & Roland Pöntinen (piano)
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Fröst revels in the deep-plush velvet of his chalumeau regions - and, indeed, sustains this timbre throughout the instrument's register...the ensemble creates cutting-edge rhythmic urgency,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2014, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Gramophone Awards, 2015, Finalist - Chamber
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Dynamic and dramatic readings, faithful to Brahms's intentions. Powerfully conceived, they are rhythmically alert, without an ounce of undue sentiment and never for an instant losing sight of... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2013, Disc of the Month
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2014, Orchestral Finalist
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Recording of the Year
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Building a Library, April 2018, Also recommended
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In short, this highly recommendable collection represents a model of imaginative and provocative programming. —
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Modern, streamlined and elegant Brahms. —
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Presto Editor's Choice, August 2019
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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The finest performance here, by far, is of the Bartók sonata, one of the most demanding of his modernist works. The spontaneity which the performers speak about in their ‘conversation’ materialises... —
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Record Review, 28th January 2023, Record of the Week
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2023, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Chamber Music
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Special offer. Johannes Brahms: Piano Quartets Nos. 2 & 3
Christian Tetzlaff (violin), Barbara Buntrock, Tanja Tetzlaff (cello), Lars Vogt (piano)
Passion and fragility combine to form the essence of Vogt’s art, especially in the context of this wonderful music. —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2024, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Chamber Music
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Gramophone Awards, 2025 Shortlist, Chamber
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Brahms: Piano Quintet in F minor Op. 34 & String Quintet in G major Op. 111
RecommendedPavel Haas Quartet, Boris Giltburg (piano), Pavel Nikl (viola)
The Pavel Haas Quartet and Boris Giltburg take on [the Piano Quintet] with no holds barred: this is an allgiving, full-on version in which the sense of involvement is total and the exhilaration... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 13th May 2022
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Chamber Music
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2022
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