Chamber, 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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Brahms: String Quartet Op. 67 and Piano Quintet Op. 34
RecommendedKirill Gerstein (piano)
Hagen Quartett
This is technically flawless playing, and discipline and rigour also shape the interpretations. The plangent harmonies are kept firmly in order…The fine-boned vibrato is disciplined, occasional... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Chamber Music
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Diapason d’Or, February 2020, Nouveauté
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Their approach is alert, texturally clear and passionate … these are admriable performances which I recommend to any prospective buyer … this new Takács reading weighs in at the top end of the... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2009, Finalist - Chamber
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It's rare to come across truly revelatory performances of such oft-recorded repertory, but that's what the Zehetmair Quartet have given us here. —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2025, Editor's 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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When you have an intelligent, technically almost superhuman ensemble like the Emerson Quartet, playing with obvious feeling for the music, reservations about quartet-style fly out of the window. —
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2007, Chamber Choice
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Building a Library, November 2017, Also Recommended
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Building a Library, October 2020, Recommended Recording
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