Brahms: Quintette pour cordes et piano & Zwei Gesänge

Featuring

Philippe Bernhard
Loïc Rio
Laurent Marfaing
François Kieffer
Jean-Frédéric Neuburger
Andrea Hill

Quatuor Modigliani
Johannes Brahms

Did you know?

1/7

Composition History

The Piano Quintet was dedicated to Princess Anna of Hesse, who, in return, gifted Brahms with the manuscript of Mozart's G minor Symphony.

Instruments

The Modigliani Quartet performs on four magnificent Italian instruments, including violins by Giovanni Battista Guadagnini (1780) and Alessandro Gagliano (1734), a viola by Mariani (1660), and a cello by Matteo Goffriller (1706).

Composer Biography

Johannes Brahms, despite a deprived childhood in Hamburg, made his public debut at age ten and received guidance from Eduard Marxsen, the city's best piano teacher.

Composer Biography

Brahms spent two years living with Clara Schumann's family, profiting from her piano lessons during her husband Robert Schumann's confinement in a mental hospital.

Composition History

The Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34, underwent two major transformations: it was initially a string quintet, then a sonata for two pianos, before becoming the piano quintet we know today.

Recording & Production

This album was recorded at the Théâtre-Auditorium (TAP) in Poitiers, France, a venue recognized for having one of the finest acoustics in Europe.

Composition History

The second of the Two Songs, Op. 91, was composed in September 1864 as a birth gift for Johannes Joachim, Brahms's godson and the son of his friends Joseph Joachim and Amalie Weiss.