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"Definitive" is a dangerous word to use about any performance, especially when the work in question is the rich and repeatedly recorded Piano Quintet Op. 34 by Brahms. But this eloquent, expansive and ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Life & Arts news every morning. This useful pairing finds Brahms at his most autumnal, the entire quartet unfolding at moderate speeds ...

Brahms's dedication of his op. 51 string quartets (1873) to the surgeon Theodor Billroth provides a window into Brahms's musico-political views in the 1870s that has hitherto been unexplored by music ...

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 ...

“Quasi Minuetto” — “sort of a minuet”. Why “quasi” rather than simply “Minuetto”? Because by the time Brahms came to write this piece, somewhere between 1866 and 1873, the dainty triple-time dance ...

Brahms: String Quartet in C Minor Op. 51, No. 1Brahms: String Quartet in C Minor Op. 51, No. 1 ...