BaL 4.10.14 - Brahms: Piano Quartet no. 1 in G minor Op. 25

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

9.30am
Building a Library, Ivan Hewett with a personal recommendation from recordings of Brahms's G minor piano quartet, Op.25

Available versions:-


Victor Aller, Hollywood String Quartet
Ames Piano Quartet
Emanuel Ax, Isaac Stern, Jaime Lavedo, Yo-Yo-Ma
Artur Balsam, Budapest String Quartet
Prisca Benoit, Roland Daugareil, Michel Michalakakos, Roland Pidoux
Borodin Trio, Rivka Golani
Brandis, Christ, Borowitzky, Vasary
Busch Ensemble
Milana Chernyavska, Milander Quartet
Domus
Ralf Gothoni, Peter Csaba, Matti Hirvikangas, Frans Helmerson (download)
Nash Ensemble
Emil Gilels, Amadeus Quartet
Emil Gilels, Members of Beethoven Quartet
Emil Gilels (early mono)
Marc-Andre Hamelin, Leopold Trio
Derek Han, Isabelle Faust, Bruno Guiranna, Alain Meunier
Menuhin Festival Piano Quartet
Mozart Piano Quartet
Munich Piano Trio, Tilo Widenmeyer
Nash Ensemble
Murray Perahia, Amadeus Quartet
Philharmonische Ensemble Berlin
Primrose Piano Quartet
Pro Arte Piano Quartet
Rome Beethoven Quartet (download)
Arthur Rubinstein, Guarneri String Quartet
Arthur Rubinstein, Pro Arte Quartet Members (download)
Alexander Scheider, Walter Trampler, Leslie Parnas, Stephanie Brown
Schubert Ensemble
Csilla Szabo, Peter Komlos, Geza Nemeth, Karoly Botvay (download)
Villiers Piano Quartet
Walter Trampler, Beaux Arts Trio

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

There are also orchestral and two-piano recordings available.

[verismissimo]

What a great work this is. Brahms at his finest! And so many outstanding musicians have recorded it.

I'm going to hear it in a couple of hours time in the parish church at Deddington, Oxfordshire, played by:

Lucy Gould, Sophie Renshaw, Kate Gould and Viv McLean

Deep joy.

[richardfinegold]

Is this the one that Schoenberg orchestrated?

[LeMartinPecheur]

Is this the one that Schoenberg orchestrated?

Yes.

[Barbirollians]

Rubinstein and the GSQ for me .

[gurnemanz]

Rubinstein and the GSQ for me .

I've been meaning to get that version for about the last 40 years but never got around to it. You might just have nudged me.

[LeMartinPecheur]

Rubinstein and the GSQ for me .

I've owned the LP box (3 Brahms quartets plus the Schumann quintet) for some 40 years but have always found it absolutely infuriating with its splitting of works across discs, the 2nd quartet across 3 sides

Just checked the riverpeople for a better-arranged CD reissue. No joy - there's quartets 1 and 3 on one disc, and the Schumann and Brahms quintets on another, but no sign of the 2nd quartet anywhere

EDIT Ah, the 2nd quartet lurks here http://www.amazon.co.uk/Rubinstein-C...stein+guarneri but the 1/3 coupling appears to be only available secondhand. So will it figure on the programme?

A box of all the quartets plus the quintet would surely be a winner, with or without the Schumann.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Just checked the riverpeople for a better-arranged CD reissue. No joy - there's quartets 1 and 3 on one disc, and the Schumann and Brahms quintets on another, but no sign of the 2nd quartet anywhere

EDIT Ah, the 2nd quartet lurks here http://www.amazon.co.uk/Rubinstein-C...stein+guarneri but the 1/3 coupling appears to be only available secondhand. So will it figure on the programme?

Yours for £12 (incl P&P) on CD 8 in this boxed set (minus Schumann):

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Rubinstein-Plays-Brahms-Classical-Masters/dp/B0042U2HN2/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1411810967&sr=1-1&keywords=rubinstein+plays+brahms

[LeMartinPecheur]

Yours for £12 (incl P&P) on CD 8 in this boxed set (minus Schumann):

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Rubinstein-P...n+plays+brahms

Thanks fhg: I'd made the mistake of searching for Brahms+Rubinstein+Guarneri.

Duly ordered from Marketplace - thanks for the steer.

[Barbirollians]

Yours for £12 (incl P&P) on CD 8 in this boxed set (minus Schumann):

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Rubinstein-P...n+plays+brahms

That box is one of the bargains of the catalogue !

[richardfinegold]

My only recording is a complete set with Beaux Arts Trio and Trampler. I haven't played it for a bit. I heard MTT conduct the Schoenberg Orchestration a few years back and I've listened to that several times on Spotify.

[verismissimo]

As of today, Holst 175, Brahms 11. Shome mishtake?

[BBMmk2]

Strange as it seems, I have Rattle's Berlin account of the Schoenberg transcription of the score! :)

[Don Petter]

By coincidence, I have just been listening to the Demus/Barylli recording, which was in the Korean Westminster Chamber Music box. I think the box is now nla, and the quartets are not in the later DG Westminster box.

Like meeting an old friend, and a beautifully musical performance. I rate Demus highly as a chamber music player and accompanist.