The Raphael Ensemble - Johannes Brahms: String Quintets (2010)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 272 Mb | Total time: 58:07 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDH55369 | Recorded: 1995
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 272 Mb | Total time: 58:07 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDH55369 | Recorded: 1995
Brahms composed his two published String Quintets amid the rural tranquillity of Bad Ischl in Upper Austria and the works can almost be seen as an expression of escape from the 'urban stress' of nineteenth-century Vienna. The Quintets show Brahms standing at the pinnacle of the composition of chamber music, their gentle pastoral character being subtly shaded by a profoundly melancholy introspection.