Brahms: Quatuors à cordes, quintette pour piano et cordes (Intégrale musique de chambre), Vol. 6

Featuring

Pierre Fouchenneret
Sarah Nemtanu
Lise Berthaud
François Salque
Éric Le Sage
Quatuor Strada

Johannes Brahms

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Performer Biography

The musicians on this album, including Pierre Fouchenneret, Lise Berthaud, François Salque, and Éric Le Sage, formed a close-knit "company" to tackle the ambitious project of recording Brahms's complete chamber music.

Recording & Production

This album is part of a larger project to record all of Brahms's chamber music with the same musicians, a goal initially deemed "impossible to achieve."

Composer's Artistic Vision

Johannes Brahms, a peerless musician, cherished chamber music ensembles and composed for them throughout his life, blending classical rigor with Romantic impulse.

Composer Biography

Brahms was an extremely demanding composer, destroying many early works, including at least twenty string quartets, if they did not meet his high standards.

Composition History

Brahms's Piano Quintet in F Minor, Opus 34, underwent several transformations: it was initially conceived as a string quintet, then a sonata for two pianos, before reaching its final form as a piano quintet.