Two of the great cornerstones of 19th-century chamber music were written by Brahms. Each, in a very different way, is a colossus, and each is a total masterpiece: of structure, craftsmanship and ...

Quintet for Clarinet and Strings Robert Oberaigner, Clarinet Fritz Busch Quartet Quintet for Clarinet and Strings Robert Oberaigner, Clarinet Fritz Busch Quartet Clarinet quintets by Brahms and Reger ...

Before it was finally transformed into perhaps the best-known of all Brahms's chamber works, the Piano Quintet in F minor Op 34 had begun life as a quintet for strings alone, its initial inspiration ...

Brahms famously ran into problems with a two-cello string quintet, which metamorphosed into a work for two pianos, and then into the great Piano Quintet we know today. Small wonder, then, that his two ...

Quintet for Clarinet and Strings Sabine Meyer, Clarinet Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer Carmina Quartet Allegro fragment Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer Carmina Quartet Sabine Meyer, Clarinet ...

NEW YORK — A century separates the clarinet quintets of Mozart and Brahms, but at the emotional heart of each sits a slow movement of rapt, bucolic calm. In both, the strings play with mutes, creating ...