String Quartets by Brahms (Op. 51, No. 1) & Gernsheim (Op. 31)
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97503
BCA
2004.09.01
"Was diese CD aber über den rein interessanten Aspekt weit heraushebt, das ist die Interpretation des Mandelring Quartetts. Selbst wer die großen Aufnahmen der Brahms-Quartette kennt – und davon gibt es ja viele! –, der wird in dem Spiel des Mandelring Quartetts so manch Neues entdecken." (Pizzicato)
"The gifted Mandelring Quartet play this delightful work with such unfailing sensitivity and enraptured affection (not to say technical aplomb) that you’d have thought it was central repertoire they’d been playing for years." (The Strad)
"It is not difficult to compose. But it is incredibly difficult to cast aside the superfluous notes."
(Johannes Brahms)
This quotation of Brahms shows his self-critical attitude towards his own compositions. During his whole life Brahms dedicated himself to the central genres of...