Brahms: The Piano Quartets, Opp. 25, 26 & 60 [Audio CD] Johannes Brahms; Eman...

Description: Brahms: The Piano Quartets, Opp. 25, 26 & 60 [Audio CD] Johannes Brahms; Emanuel Ax; Jaime Laredo; Isaac Stern and Yo-Yo Ma Product Overview Format: Audio CD, October 23, 1990 The piano quartet--one of music's many curious misnomers--relies on a particularly subtle interplay between its contrasting textures of strings and keyboard. The synergy of the four musicians on this CD (each a star on his respective instrument), as in their account of the Mozart piano quartets, creates a shared dynamic that brings the expressive depths that Brahms positively poured into this idiom. They've managed to develop a style of breathing together with a kind of lucidly organic inevitability. The first quartet (in G minor) exhales Brahms's empathetic engagement with the chamber music of Schubert (the piece marked his Viennese debut) but would have a profound impact on Arnold Schoenberg, who wrote a notable essay on it extolling "Brahms the progressive" and later scored it for full orchestra. There's a similarly Schubertian leisureliness to the Quartet in A, but in these musicians' hands, its length unfolds as a horn of plenty, fertile in its musical invention, with an especially magical lushness in the romantic "Nachtstück" slow movement. But the real emotional centerpiece here is the C Minor Quartet (also known as the Werther Quartet from its purported inspiration in Goethe's novel). Ax, Stern, Laredo, and Ma bring a concentrated power and broiling originality to their account, instilling its moments of anguish and harmonic dislocation with searingly tragic energy. The Andante in particular emerges as a sustained rhapsody as the musicians play off each other's phrasing to build a statement of majestic eloquence. --Thomas May Details Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.75 x 5 x 1 inches; 7.2 ounces Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Sony Classical Original Release Date ‏ : ‎ 1990 Run time ‏ : ‎ 2 hours and 7 minutes Date First Available ‏ : ‎ December 8, 2006 Label ‏ : ‎ Sony Classical Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 2 Best Sellers Rank: #54,509 in CDs & Vinyl (See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl) #936 in Chamber Music (CDs & Vinyl) Quality Products This will be shipped securely Returns must be within 30 days - item EXACTLY as it was sent. Must have tracking number. Email us with any issues/questions. Thanks for looking! Fast and Free Shipping Shipping is free for this item. We get your order shipped out and delivered to your doorstep as quickly as possible. Commitment We are committed to making sure that you leave this transaction satisfied. That means having access to real people that get your questions and concerns answered quickly. Give us a shot and we will make sure that you will look to us again!

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