The Paris-based group’s first disc is a wonderfully detailed recording of Brahms quartets that at times might benefit from a more muscular edge Quatuor Agate owe their name to Brahms – taking it from ...

Aside from soloists, it’s safe to say most classical musicians almost always have their sheet music close at hand. But the young players in the Chiara String Quartet have challenged themselves to ...

The New Zealand String Quartet has a distinguished track record on disc, balancing homegrown with international repertoire. Its latest Naxos release offers the first two string quartets of Brahms, ...

The Amsterdam Sinfonietta is Holland's only professional string orchestra, and seems to make a speciality of performing works from the chamber-music repertory in expanded versions. The 23-strong group ...

The Belcea Quartet, regular at Wigmore Hall for more than 25 years, is joined by Tabea Zimmermann to perform Mozart's G minor ...

(5) Lieder, Movements: No. 1, Wie Melodien zieht es mir (wds. Groth) Mojca Erdmann, Soprano Kuss Quartet Johannes Brahms, Composer (6) Lieder, Movements: No. 1, Sommerabend (wds. Heine) Mojca Erdmann, ...

I feel much the same way about the Novus Quartet’s Brahms as I did about their Tchaikovsky (Aparté, 11/17), my initial encounter with this ensemble. There, I described the ensemble’s wiry, glistening ...

Brahms was apparently so petrified of comparisons with Beethoven's achievements in the form that he destroyed the 20 or so string quartets he composed as a youth before finally, having turned 40, ...

Brahms claimed to have written and destroyed 20 string quartets before he managed to complete any he wanted to keep. The two quartets of his Op. 51, which he wrote in 1873, ended a quarter century ...