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Natasha Loges compares recordings of Brahms's String Quintet No 1 in F major, Op 88, and chooses her favourite. Show more Natasha Loges compares recordings of Brahms's String Quintet No 1 in F major, ...

There is an irresistible sweep here to the opening movement of the C minor Quartet Op 51 no 1. For all its technical accomplishment and ever increasing musical authority the Belcea is still a young ...

The pianist Menahem Pressler was a founding member of the Beaux Arts Trio, a fabled name in chamber music from 1955 until 2008. Now 93, he is still playing. Inevitably, each new recording has ...

Brahms famously ran into problems with a two-cello string quintet, which metamorphosed into a work for two pianos, and then into the great Piano Quintet we know today. Small wonder, then, that his two ...

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 ...

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