Composer: Johannes Brahms, Friedrich Gernsheim
Performer: Mariani Klavierquartett
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Audax
Catalogue: ADX11202
Release: 2022
Size: 784 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Brahms: Piano Quartet in A Major, Op. 26
01. I. Allegro non troppo
02. II. Poco Adagio
03. III. Scherzo. Poco Allegro
04. IV. Finale. Allegro
Gernsheim: Piano Quartet in F Major, Op. 47
05. I. Allegro tranquillo
06. II. Allegro energico e appassionato
07. III. Andante cantabile
08. IV. Tema con Variazioni
After the first volume which was awarded a “Diapason d’Or”, Mariani Klavierquartett continues its journey of discovery, juxtaposing the piano quartets of Johannes Brahms and Friedrich Gernsheim. Although this second album is dominated by Brahms’s luminescent A-Major Quartet – his longest – and although the friendship of the two composers stands at the center of this three-part project, Gernsheim’s F-Major Quartet shows that not only Brahms numbered among his influences, but that Gernsheim was also able to blend echoes of Beethoven, Mendelssohn, and Schubert into a convincing personal style. In the hands of the Mariani Piano Quartet, the formal perfection of his fervent work gleams with undreamt-of power.