Brahms Piano Quartet Opus 60
Mon, Feb 27 2012, 5:54PM
The latest addition to my site (primarily dedicated to restoration of recordings on 78s) is a recording of the Brahms Piano Quartet in No.3 in C minor Opus 60, by four musicians Harry Cumpson, Cyril Towbin, David Dawson and Carl Stern. This work was completely new to me and I was intrigued to find a detailed analysis of the last movement via google (A note on the Finale of.............). The performance is by turns passionate and delicate with the composers trade-mark "3 against 2" in evidence. The Gramophone review is to be found here:
http://www.gramophone.net/Issue/Page/April%201935/5/804153/Brahms
The Brahms has been placed following the Piano Quintet by Bloch and you will have to suffer/enjoy (according to taste) a minute or so's worth of this composition as the file loads. I hope some of you will be tempted to listen to the whole "modernist but rooted in tonal" composition which probably is much tamer now than it was when composed.
