Brahms & Mahler: Piano Quartets
Eldar Nebolsin (piano), Anton Barakhovsky (violin), Alexander Zemtsov (viola) & Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt (cello)
Together with violinist Anton Barachovsky, violist Alexander Zemtsov and cellist Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt, Nebolsin develops an interpretation that benefits from the soloist status of the ensemble...
Brahms & Mahler: Piano Quartets
Eldar Nebolsin (piano), Anton Barakhovsky (violin), Alexander Zemtsov (viola) & Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt (cello)
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Together with violinist Anton Barachovsky, violist Alexander Zemtsov and cellist Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt, Nebolsin develops an interpretation that benefits from the soloist status of the ensemble...
About
After a period as a court composer at Detmold, Brahms returned to the city of his birth, Hamburg, in January 1860. Here, in relative tranquillity, he explored the then rare piano quartet repertoire. The Piano Quartet No. 2 received a very sympathetic hearing in Vienna, Clara Schumann even preferring it to its immediate predecessor, the Piano Quartet, Op. 25 [Naxos 8572798]. Its lyricism is heightened by a romantically beautiful Adagio. Mahler’s vibrant Piano Quartet in A minor dates from 1876, the end of his first year at the Vienna Conservatory, where the only completed movement was first performed.
Contents and tracklist
- Anton Barakhovsky, Alexander Zemtsov, Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt, Eldar Nebolsin
- Anton Barakhovsky, Alexander Zemtsov, Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt, Eldar Nebolsin
Awards and reviews
FonoForum July 2017
Together with violinist Anton Barachovsky, violist Alexander Zemtsov and cellist Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt, Nebolsin develops an interpretation that benefits from the soloist status of the ensemble players but nonetheless finds a chamber music balance. The strings either blend with the piano sound or else step out in a lively dialogue…I would love to hear more from this ensemble.
