Brahms Piano Quartet in G minor, Op.25

[BBMmk2]

I do very much like this particular work. I have a couple or so recordings of it. Laredo, Serkin, Ma, fourth one escapes my mind, Takacs with Hamlin. I do also have a penchant for the Schoenberg transcription he made for orchestra. What a master of that he was. I have Dohnanyi’s with the Cleveland, and Rattles with the CBSO and Berliners.

[Beef Oven!]

I do very much like this particular work. I have a couple or so recordings of it. Laredo, Serkin, Ma, fourth one escapes my mind, Takacs with Hamlin. I do also have a penchant for the Schoenberg transcription he made for orchestra. What a master of that he was. I have Dohnanyi’s with the Cleveland, and Rattles with the CBSO and Berliners.

I have the Rattle in the latter. It's a work that I've gone off a bit - it doesn't quite do what it used to do for me. I think I'll give it a whirl this week.

[BBMmk2]

I have the Rattle in the latter. It's a work that I've gone off a bit - it doesn't quite do what it used to do for me. I think I'll give it a whirl this week.

Do so. I’m thinking of writing a transcription on the last movement, the Rondo à la Zingaresa. I don’t think it will work so well for brass band.

[Beef Oven!]

Do so. I’m thinking of writing a transcription on the last movement, the Rondo à la Zingaresa. I don’t think it will work so well for brass band.

Not everything lends itself to a brass transcription

[BBMmk2]

Not everything lends itself to a brass transcription

Indeed not. I’ll see what my various contacts I have now would think as well.

[richardfinegold]

There was a Budapest Qt recording that introduced me to this piece, another performance that I haven’t heard since my stomach was flat and my hairline hadn’t receded. Who was the Pianist? I think it was also Rudolph Serkin. I believe the The Budapest Qt made a mono recording with Szell, or was that the Mozart Piano Quartets? At any rate, re the Brahms Op.25, the Beaux Arts Trio with Trampler is what I spin.
I heard MTT conduct the Schoenberg expansion here a few years ago. It was a hoot

[LMcD]

I first encountered this work when part of the final movement was featured in a rather depressing film called 'Monsieur Hire'. I have a double CD of the three piano quartets played by Yo Yo Ma, Emanuel Ax, Isaac Stern and Jaime Laredo.

[jayne lee wilson]

Orchestral that often gets overlooked - VPO/Dohnanyi (glad to see you have it, BBm), c/w Beethoven arr. Mahler Op.95. Classic Decca Disc, I favour it over CBSO/Rattle. (I bought the Berlin one too... well, suffice to say I don't play it much now....)

Yes, an absolutely iconic work for me, always somewhere in the back of my mind..... what is it about this remarkable work? The sheer intensity and continuity of its inspirations, something like that? You sometimes wonder how a mere human animal could have written such a thing...
My latest chamber-original acquisition was the astounding Ironwood on the Australian ABC label, c/w Op.34. Period instruments ( rare in this rep., very rubato/portamento), utterly unique, unmissable if you adore it, on Qobuz to listen to....

(Anyway it's only Reds v Hammers halftime! Need some more coffee and cognac....)

[Beef Oven!]

Orchestral that often gets overlooked - VPO/Dohnanyi (glad to see you have it, BBm), c/w Beethoven arr. Mahler Op.95. Classic Decca Disc, I favour it over CBSO/Rattle. (I bought the Berlin one too... well, suffice to say I don't play it much now....)

Yes, an absolutely iconic work for me, always somewhere in the back of my mind..... what is it about this remarkable work? The sheer intensity and continuity of its inspirations, something like that? You sometimes wonder how a mere human animal could have written such a thing...
My latest chamber-original acquisition was the astounding Ironwood on the Australian ABC label, c/w Op.34. Period instruments ( rare in this rep., very rubato/portamento), utterly unique, unmissable if you adore it, on Qobuz to listen to....

(Anyway it's only Reds v Hammers halftime! Need some more coffee and cognac....)

The Irons players need the coffee and their supporters the cognac!

[BBMmk2]

Orchestral that often gets overlooked - VPO/Dohnanyi (glad to see you have it, BBm), c/w Beethoven arr. Mahler Op.95. Classic Decca Disc, I favour it over CBSO/Rattle. (I bought the Berlin one too... well, suffice to say I don't play it much now....)

Yes, an absolutely iconic work for me, always somewhere in the back of my mind..... what is it about this remarkable work? The sheer intensity and continuity of its inspirations, something like that? You sometimes wonder how a mere human animal could have written such a thing...
My latest chamber-original acquisition was the astounding Ironwood on the Australian ABC label, c/w Op.34. Period instruments ( rare in this rep., very rubato/portamento), utterly unique, unmissable if you adore it, on Qobuz to listen to....

(Anyway it's only Reds v Hammers halftime! Need some more coffee and cognac....)

I haven't played that version for ages, JLW.


LMcD, thank you for heading up that recording of the PQ, with Isaac Stern, Jamie Laredo, Yoyo Ma and Emanuel Ax, was the pianist I couldn't remember.

[Beef Oven!]

Reflecting on my current ambivalence to the AS orchestral version, I wonder if a different percormance from the Rattle might help. Do forumites have a tip-top recommendation that might liberate me?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Reflecting on my current ambivalence to the AS orchestral version, I wonder if a different percormance from the Rattle might help. Do forumites have a tip-top recommendation that might liberate me?

Try Robert Craft on NAXOS - less "earnest" than Rattle, he gets more of a sense of fun. (I'd never really thought much of Arnie's orchestrations of Brahms - or Handel, Bach, or Monn for that matter - until I got the Craft CD, which has a pretty damn fine recording of the Five Orchestral pieces there, as well.)

[Beef Oven!]

Try Robert Craft on NAXOS - less "earnest" than Rattle, he gets more of a sense of fun. (I'd never really thought much of Arnie's orchestrations of Brahms - or Handel, Bach, or Monn for that matter - until I got the Craft CD, which has a pretty damn fine recording of the Five Orchestral pieces there, as well.)

Thanks ferney. I keep meaning to buy that Craft Naxos CD but keep telling myself I’ve already got it! I need to check properly!

[jayne lee wilson]

Thanks ferney. I keep meaning to buy that Craft Naxos CD but keep telling myself I’ve already got it! I need to check properly!

Recent hi-res choices here with surprising couplings...The Adventurous Choice!
Never heard these yet, but the HM & Pentatone reviewed very well...
https://www.qobuz.com/gb-en/search_v....25&i=boutique

Of Rattle's two I prefer the CBSO (originally c/w the BSO Mahler 10, quite an album!) by a wide margin, but first off the shelf is always Dohnanyi. (DO avoid Craft's earlier Chicago one...rowdy & scrappy, the worst I ever heard, regretted buying it...)

Historical legendary: Hollywood Quartet with Victor Aller..."unsurpassable" in its way, you could almost live with this one on its own...!

[Beef Oven!]

Recent hi-res choices here with surprising couplings...The Adventurous Choice!
Never heard these yet, but the HM & Pentatone reviewed very well...
https://www.qobuz.com/gb-en/search_v....25&i=boutique

Of Rattle's two I prefer the CBSO (originally c/w the BSO Mahler 10, quite an album!) by a wide margin, but first off the shelf is always Dohnanyi. (DO avoid Craft's earlier Chicago one...rowdy & scrappy, the worst I ever heard, regretted buying it...)

Historical legendary: Hollywood Quartet with Victor Aller..."unsurpassable" in its way, you could almost live with this one on its own...!

Sooo tantalising!

Fascinating C/Ws!

This is gonna cost me