Brahms, Johannes - Piano Quartets Nos. 1-3 - Hamelin, Marc-André (piano)

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...Marc-André Hamelin är en gudabenådad pianist. Hans spel är auktoritativt men kan samtidigt göra ett både graciöst och ömsint intryck...

...I de tre intermezzi för piano, opus 117, som finns med på skivan frilägger Hamelin den storartade enkelheten, självklarheten, i denna sköna musik...

(Östgöta Correspondenten)



...den bästa kompletta utgåvan av de tre verken jag hört...

(Sundsvalls Tidning)



The G minor quartet (1861—actually Brahms’s second foray into the genre) offers a heady mix of unbridled gypsy vigour cast within a musical architecture of symphonic mastery, characteristics not lost on Arnold Schoenberg who later made an orchestral arrangement. The following year saw the premiere of the A major quartet, Brahms himself at the piano in offering to the world a work which would be hugely popular during his lifetime before falling inexplicably to the periphery of the repertoire in recent times.



It was over a decade later, in 1873/4, that Brahms returned to his aborted C minor quartet: ‘Imagine a man who is just
going to shoot himself, for there is nothing else to do’, wrote composer to publisher of this profoundly moving score. Much of the 1850s material is recast, and the resulting quartet is a tense masterpiece terminated by a cadence of
perfunctory abruptness. Unsatisfied fatalism triumphs.



This generously filled set is concluded with the Op 117 Intermezzos for solo piano. One of four late groups of piano pieces Brahms composed with his beloved Clara Schumann very much in mind, these exquisite miniatures find an eloquent interpreter in Marc-André Hamelin.



The recorded sound here is astonishing, both in its immediacy and raw energy: every passionate nuance of Brahms’s Romantic vision is perfectly captured. Awards can be expected.
Marc-André Hamelin, piano


Leopold String Trio:

Marianne Thorsen, violin

Lawrence Power, viola

Kate Gould, cello
CD 1

Johannes Brahms

Piano Quartet No 1 in G minor Op 25

1 Allegro

2 Intermezzo: Allegro ma non troppo — Trio: Animato

3 Andante con moto

4 Rondo alla Zingarese: Presto



Piano Quartet No 3 in C minor Op 60

5 Allegro non troppo

6 Scherzo: Allegro

7 Andante

8 Finale: Allegro comodo



CD 2

Piano Quartet No 2 in A major Op 26

1 Allegro non troppo

2 Poco adagio

3 Scherzo: Poco allegro — Trio

4 Finale: Allegro



Three Intermezzos Op 117 for solo piano

5 Andante moderato

6 Andante non troppo e con molto espressione

7 Andante con moto