Composer: Johannes Brahms
Performer: Krysia Osostowicz, James Boyd, Richard Lester, Zebra String Trio
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0066
Release: 2012
Size: 389 MB
Recovery: +3%
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Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34
01. I. Allegro non troppo
02. II. Andante un poco adagio
03. III. Scherzo: Allegro
04. IV. Finale: Poco sostenuto – Allegro non troppo
Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op. 115
05. I. Allegro
06. II. Adagio – Piu lento
07. III. Andantino – Presto non assai, ma con sentimento
08. IV. Con moto
Brahms first wrote his Op. 34 as a string quintet before recasting it for two pianos and then as the version for piano quintet known today. In this imaginative reconstruction as a string quintet by the Finnish cellist Anssi Karttunen, the Zebra Trio is joined by some of Britain’s most outstanding stringplayers, allowing modern listeners to hear a version of the work in textures closer to Brahms’ original thoughts.
It is coupled in this recording by Brahms’ own rarely heard version of the Clarinet Quintet, Op. 115, as a string quintet, with a viola replacing the clarinet.