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Brahms (1833-1897)

Description:

The Notos Quartet, which astonished the music world with its first recording of Bartók's Piano Quartet, presents its second recording of Brahms, which received rave reviews during a performance in Japan. The second release by the Notos Quartet, which wowed the music world with the first recording of Bartók's Piano Quartet, is Brahms' Brahms Symphony No. 3, which was critically acclaimed during a performance in Japan. Brahms' Piano Quartet No. 1 was performed by Clara Schumann at a concert in Hamburg in November 1861. The music is passionate and exhilarating, with Brahms' innovations incorporated in the first movement's dim first theme and serene second theme, the flowing melody of the second movement, the pastoral melody and march-like middle section of the third movement, and the gypsy-style rondo (czardas) of the fourth movement. Schoenberg found much richness in Brahms' piano quartet and arranged it for a huge three-wind orchestra, creating a rare orchestral piece in which the beauty of Brahms' dense melodies and the charm of Schoenberg's eloquent orchestration interacted with one another. Schoenberg's reason for arranging the orchestral version was to create a unique orchestral piece. Schoenberg said in a private letter, "I like this work, but it is rarely performed, and if there is a good player for the piano part, the emphasis on that part makes it sound bad, so I arranged it so that all the parts can be heard.This work is literally the signature repertoire of the Notos Quartet, an up-and-coming German piano quartet, and was also the main program item on their July 2019 visit to Japan, when the Japanese premiere of Bartók's piano quartet attracted much attention. As a work to be paired with the Piano Quartet No. 1, the Notos Quartet asked Andreas N. Talcman to arrange the same Brahms Symphony No. 3, as if to cross the boundary between chamber music and symphonic music. Talcman's arrangement, however, adopts the opposite approach to that of Schoenberg, instead revealing the chamber music character of Brahms' Third Symphony. Through the first recording of the piano quartet version, which suddenly reveals a previously unheard structure, the arrangement gains originality as a piano quartet, and the listener experiences the work in a completely new way. In other words, the symbiosis of symphonic sound and chamber music transparency as a foundation seems to evidence Brahms' astonishing music-making as a composer. Talcman's confident arrangement technique blows away any doubts that the piece is not a symphony, and it acquires the persuasive force of Brahms's piano quartet, "No. 4."(1/2) Sony Music

Tracklisting:

1.Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op. 25~Allegro
2.Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op. 25~Intermezzo. Allegro (ma non troppo)
3.Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op. 25~Andante con moto
4.Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op. 25~Rondo alla Zingarese. Presto
5.Symphony No. 3 in F major, Op. 90~Allegro con brio
6.Symphony No. 3 in F major, Op. 90~Andante
7.Symphony No. 3 in F major, Op. 90~Poco Allegretto
8.Symphony No. 3 in F major, Op. 90~Allegro