BaL 25.11.17 - Brahms: String Quartet no. 3 in B flat, Op. 67

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

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Building a Library: Katy Hamilton explores Brahms's Third String Quartet in B flat major, Op 67. Brahms composed this quartet 1875 and dedicated it to a cellist friend, even though the cellist is the one instrument that doesn't get a prominent solo in the work. The work is composed in a lighter vein than we sometimes associate with Brahms's chamber works; he described it as "a useless trifle, to avoid facing the serious countenance of a symphony", by which he meant work on his First Symphony, which was premiered a week later.

Available versions:

Alban Berg Quartet
Alban Berg Quartet
Amadeus Quartet DG
Amadeus Quartet Audite
Artemis Quartet
Artis Quartet, Wien
Auryn Quartet
Bartók Quartet (download)
Belcea Quartet
Borodin Quartet
Borodin Quartet (DVD)
Budapest Quartet
Busch Quartet
Cavani Quartet (download)
Chiara String Quartet (download)
Cuarteto Casals (download)
Emerson String Quartet
Gringolts Quartet
Guarneri Quartet (download)
Julliard String Quartet
Kuss Quartet
LaSalle Quartet
LaSalle Quartet
Leipziger Streichquartett
London String Quartet
Ludwig Quartet
Mandelring String Quartet
Musikverein Quartet
New Zealand String Quartet
Orlando Quartet
Prazak Quartet
Pro Arte Quartet (download)
Quartetto Italiano
Quatuor Ysaÿe (download)
Sine Nomine Quartet
Smetana Quartet
Takács Quartet
Takács Quartet (DVD)
Tokyo Quartet
Vegh Quartet
Verdi Quartett

[BBMmk2]

Fair old list there EA! I don't have these in my collection. So be quite interested.

[vinteuil]

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... many thanks, Alpie!

And there is Brahms's own transcription for piano four hands - excellently played here :

http://amzn.eu/dKOdhQ2

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[Beef Oven!]

Just the Amadeus DG here. Very happy with them, I don't intend any additions. But I thought that about DSCH 11 last week and ended up buying the Wigglesworth and the Haitink!

[visualnickmos]

...and here, just the Borodin Quartet, and very fine it is.

[BBMmk2]

Just the Amadeus DG here. Very happy with them, I don't intend any additions. But I thought that about DSCH 11 last week and ended up buying the Wigglesworth and the Haitink!

Wiggelsworth was a couple of years below me at prep school!

[Stanfordian]

Wiggelsworth was a couple of years below me at prep school!

Hiya maestro,

Mark Wigglesworth a most underrated conductor whose talent deserves a job with top international orchestra in my opinion. I love his Shostakovich symphony cycle.

[BBMmk2]

Hiya maestro,

Mark Wigglesworth a most underrated conductor whose talent deserves a job with top international orchestra in my opinion. I love his Shostakovich symphony cycle.

I must buy then!

[Barbirollians]

Emerson Quartet here and have always been happy with them .

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Quite informative so far.

[pastoralguy]

At work today. Who 'won'?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

At work today. Who 'won'?

Well ... "the" Takacs (as emboldened in Alpie's edited OP). BUT which of their recordings (Hyperion, or Decca) I didn't hear: she did say at one point to "check the website" for details. Maybe my brain is full, but I can't find where these details are.

(Mind you - I couldn't find the "DVD" version of the Takacs mentioned in Alpie's list, either. )

[BBMmk2]

I have the Hyperionrecording of the Takacs playing this. Is there a need to nuy the Decca?

[pastoralguy]

Many thanks.

[Barbirollians]

It was the Decca Takacs - Emerson runner up by the sounds of it