Hyperion Records | Brahms: String Quartets & Piano Quintet

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CDD22018
(Originally issued on CDA66651, CDA66652)
2CDs Dyad (2 CDs for the price of 1)

Recording details: February 1992
All Saints, Durham Road, East Finchley, London, United Kingdom
Produced by Arthur Johnson
Engineered by Antony Howell & Robert Menzies
Release date: September 1997
Total duration: 144 minutes 57 seconds

'This is a top recommendation for all these works' (Classic CD)

'Highly recommendable' (Gramophone)

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)

String Quartets & Piano Quintet

New Budapest Quartet

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		String Quartet in C minor, Op 51 No 1
CD1	1	Movement 1: Allegro [11'08]
	2	Movement 2: Romanze. Poco adagio [7'17]
	3	Movement 3: Allegretto molto moderato e comodo – Un poco più animato [8'50]
	4	Movement 4: Allegro [6'05]
		String Quartet in A minor, Op 51 No 2
	5	Movement 1: Allegro non troppo [12'28]
	6	Movement 2: Andante moderato [9'20]
	7	Movement 3: Quasi menuetto, moderato – Allegro vivace [5'02]
	8	Movement 4: Allegro non assai [6'43]
		String Quartet in B flat major, Op 67
CD2	1	Movement 1: Vivace [9'10]
	2	Movement 2: Andante [7'24]
	3	Movement 3: Agitato, Allegretto non troppo [7'55]
	4	Movement 4: Poco allegretto con variazioni [10'36]
		Piano Quintet in F minor, Op 34
	5	Movement 1: Allegro non troppo [15'42] with Piers Lane (piano)
	6	Movement 2: Andante, un poco adagio [8'54] with Piers Lane (piano)
	7	Movement 3: Scherzo. Allegro [7'40] with Piers Lane (piano)
	8	Movement 4: Poco sostenuto – Allegro non troppo – Presto non troppo [10'43] with Piers Lane (piano)