Brahms: Complete String Quartets, Quintets & Sextets [Box Set]

Brahms: Complete String Quartets, Quintets & Sextets [Box Set] | Karl Leister, Johannes Brahms, ... | Just a "heads up!"

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	Brahms: Complete String Quartets, Quintets & Sextets [Box Set] Karl Leister, Johannes Brahms, ... Deutsche Grammophon, 2003 average customer review:based on 9 reviews view larger image
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Artist: BRAHMS,J.
Title: QT STR 1 (CM)/2 (AM)/3 (B-FLAT)/QNT PNO (FM)/&
Street Release Date: 10/14/2003

The Beauty of Brahms"Chamber Music

Ok, I am going to admit that I purchased this cd boxed set because I truly enjoy chamber music. There is a simplicity and beauty inherent to music played by a select few. Please don't misunderstand me, I enjoy all forms of classical music. Still-trios, quartets, and quintets hold a special place in my music collection.

If your taste is similar, let me say that this is a must have! The playing is superb! This is a cd that can be played over and over and a new discovery is made each time. I give this boxed cd set my highest recommendation!

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Just a "heads up!"

I just want to warn anyone as brain-dead as I turned out to be that the recordings of the 3 string quartets included here are exactly the same recordings contained in Brahms: The String Quartets/Dvorak: Quartet, Op. 96.

D'oh!

They are very good recordings, of course, but one copy is enough.

(When you start making mistakes like this, is it a sign that you own too much music?)

So which should you buy? Well, I would get this 5-disc set because it is still a good deal--the quintets, sextets and clarinet music are all very good. In particular, the recording of Brahms' piano quintet in F minor here, with Eschenbach at the piano, is very highly recommended by people who would know.

And I personally would listen to Brahms' clarinet quintet five times, the 2nd sextet three times and the piano quintet in F minor at least twice for each time I listened to Dvorak's 13th string quartet--as nice as it in fact is.

You can get the Dvorak quartet, which is on the other edition but not here, elsewhere. In fact, Dvorák, Tchaikovsky, Borodin: Quartets by the Emerson String Quartet comes highly recommended to me--so highly that I've decided to purchase it relatively soon to compare to the Amadeus, which I've been enjoying. The Emerson's Dvorak has a slightly better reputation, but of course there's no accounting for taste.

(Evidently the answer to the parenthetically posed question above is an emphatic "No!")

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brahms: complete string quartets, quintets&sextets

Everything was as expected,the product was factory sealed and shipped and delivered in good order

Magnifical Brahms

This is merely the best recording I have purchased this year, a magnifical reason of happiness and spell, since it re-collects the finest masterworks of Brahms's chamber music in 5 cds with the devoted art of Amadeus Quartet and of clarinetist Karl Leister, who surely reaches in the extraordinary Quintet op. 115 the zenith of his career. Excellent. Five stars.

Classic recording--Repeat omissions unforgivable

This recording was such a definitive introduction to the Brahms quintets and sextets (included on the DG complete edition) that the extraordinarily unfortunate omission of the exposition repeats in the Op. 18 sextet and the Op. 111 quintet (especially the latter, which has a glorious first ending and return--thus they have here cut ACTUAL MUSIC that Brahms wrote) have been glossed over and forgotten. I'd like to contact Martin Lovett, the last surviving member of the Amadeus, to ask him why they made such an egregious and unforgivable decision that mars such a glorious and classic recording.

If you want to hear what the repeats sound like, the Verdi Quartet with guests from the old Melos Quartet has just released a CD on Hänssler of these VERY TWO pieces that include the repeats (Op. 18 and Op. 111). Once you hear how awesome the repeat of Op. 111 is, if you've only known this recording, you will put a hex on Norbert Brainin's grave for omitting it (it was surely his decision as quartet leader).

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Tracks
String Quartet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 51/1: 1. Allegro | String Quartet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 51/1: 2. Romanze. Poco Adagio | String Quartet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 51/1: 3. Allegretto molto moderato e comodo - Un poco più animato | String Quartet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 51/1: 4. Allegro | String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op. 51/2: 1. Allegro non troppo | String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op. 51/2: 2. Andante moderato | String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op. 51/2: 3. Quasi Minuetto, moderato - Allegretto vivace | String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op. 51/2: 4. Finale. Allegro non assai | String Quartet No. 3 in B flat major, Op. 67: 1. Vivace | String Quartet No. 3 in B flat major, Op. 67: 2. Andante | String Quartet No. 3 in B flat major, Op. 67: 3. Agitato (Allegretto non troppo) | String Quartet No. 3 in B flat major, Op. 67: 4. Poco Allegretto con Variazioni | Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34a: 1. Allegro non troppo - Poco sostenuto - Tempo I. | Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34a: 2. Andante, un poco Adagio | Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34a: 3. Scherzo. Allegro - Trio | Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34a: 4. Finale. Poco sostenuto - Allegro non troppo - Tempo I - Presto, non troppo | String Quintet No. 1 in F major ('Spring'), Op. 88: 1. Allegro non troppo ma con brio | String Quintet No. 1 in F major ('Spring'), Op. 88: 2. Grave ed appassionato - Allegretto vivace - Tempo I - Presto | String Quintet No. 1 in F major ('Spring'), Op. 88: 3. Finale. Allegro energico | String Quintet No. 2 in G major, Op. 111: 1. Allegro non troppo, ma con brio | String Quintet No. 2 in G major, Op. 111: 2. Adagio | String Quintet No. 2 in G major, Op. 111: 3. Un poco Allegretto | String Quintet No. 2 in G major, Op. 111: 4. Vivace, ma non troppo presto | Trio for clarinet (or viola), cello & piano in A minor, Op. 114: 1. Allegro | Trio for clarinet (or viola), cello & piano in A minor, Op. 114: 2. Adagio | Trio for clarinet (or viola), cello & piano in A minor, Op. 114: 3. Andante grazioso | Trio for clarinet (or viola), cello & piano in A minor, Op. 114: 4. Allegro | Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op. 115: 1. Allegro | Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op. 115: 2. Adagio | Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op. 115: 3. Andantino - Presto non assai, ma con sentimento | Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op. 115: 4. Con moto | String Sextet No. 1 in B flat major, Op. 18: 1. Allegro ma non troppo | String Sextet No. 1 in B flat major, Op. 18: 2. Thema con Variazioni. Andante, ma moderato | String Sextet No. 1 in B flat major, Op. 18: 3. Scherzo. Allegro molto - Trio. Animato | String Sextet No. 1 in B flat major, Op. 18: 4. Rondo. Poco Allegreto e grazioso | String Sextet No. 2 in G major, Op. 36: 1. Allegro non troppo | String Sextet No. 2 in G major, Op. 36: 2. Scherzo. Allegro non troppo - Presto giocoso - Tempo I | String Sextet No. 2 in G major, Op. 36: 3. Poco Adagio | String Sextet No. 2 in G major, Op. 36: 4. Poco Allegro

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