This is a fine but frustrating disc. Admirers of the superb Swedish clarinettist Martin Fröst may already have this version of Brahms' Trio for clarinet, cello and piano Op 114, which was released ...

Jane Jones explores the work which was an end to early retirement for Brahms. After years of self criticism, and the burden of great expectation laid on his shoulders by friend and mentor Robert ...

One of the greatest of all chamber works, Brahms's Piano Quintet was apparently much admired in its composer's lifetime for its "masculine strength". Opinions about Brahms and masculinity have changed ...

Brahms struggled for three years to find just the right instrumentation for his Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34. After rejecting several options, he finally settled on piano plus string quartet. It's ...

In a generation-crossing collaboration, the Pacifica Quartet partners with revered pianist Menahem Pressler in Johannes Brahms's Piano Quintet in F Minor, Op. 34, on a new Cedille Records album. It's ...

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Canadian James Campbell's playing with the NZSO evoked a sense of spirited dialogue. Monday's evening of quintets featuring Canadian clarinettist James Campbell with the New Zealand String Quartet ...

David Bruce’s Gumboots looks back to the apartheid regime in South Africa, when miners had to toil in flooded gold mines wearing gumboots. The rhythms of them slapping their boots and chains are ...

The Takács Quartet also offer a rival recording of the C minor String Quartet (their Hyperion remake, which follows almost two decades after their first recording for Decca, 9/90 R). While both the ...

String Quintet No. 2 Pavel Haas Quartet Boris Giltburg, Piano In 2018 the Pavel Haas Quartet won their sixth Gramophone Award for a recording coupling Dvořák’s Piano Quintet (with Boris Giltburg) and ...