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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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, ...

Musica Tra Amici (Music Among Friends) will have their first concert of 2022. For this chamber music concert, Artistic Director and Houston Symphony co-concertmaster, Eric Halen, will be joined by his ...

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, ...