Chamber, Quartets, Piano Quartets, 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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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's three piano quartets sometimes exhibit this tendency but in performances as fine as these it is triumphantly surmounted with a combination of brisk speeds and an extraordinary collective... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2007, Finalist - Chamber
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2007, Chamber Choice
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The Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective are renowned for their eagerness when it comes to expanding the repertoire… moments of striking beauty and its high-spirited virtuosity, along with its canny... —
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Brahms: Piano Quartets (Remastered)
RecommendedEmanuel Ax (piano), Isaac Stern (violin), Jaime Laredo (viola), Yo-Yo Ma (cello)
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Gramophone Awards, 1991, Winner - Chamber
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Grammy Awards, 34th Awards (1991), Best Chamber Music Recording
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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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BBC Music Magazine, June 2025, Chamber Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2025 Winners, Winner - Chamber
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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Martha Argerich & Friends: Live from the Lugano Festival 2012
RecommendedMaria João Pires (piano), Martha Argerich (piano), Gautier Capuçon (cello), Lily Maisky (piano), Sascha Maisky (violin), Lyda Chen (viola), Mischa Maisky (cello), Nicholas Angelich (piano), Polina Leschenko (piano), Ilya Gringolts (violin), Nathan Braude (viola), Torleif Thedéen (cello), Nelson Goerner...
Several of the ensembles could have benefited from more sustained period of rehearsal, yet they still communicate vibrancy and the sheer enjoyment possible when fine musicians get together to... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 13th May 2013
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2013, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Shortlisted - Chamber
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Special offer. Brahms/Schoenberg: Piano Quartet Op. 25
Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Marc Albrecht
the Netherlanders are more ardent in the songful slow movement, more upbeat in its central march, and far more exciting in the headlong Hungarian gypsy finale. —
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Schumann: Piano Quintet & Brahms: Piano Quartet No. 2
RecommendedClifford Curzon (piano)
Budapest String Quartet
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Building a Library, April 2008, Budget Choice
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