Artist: Belcea Quartet, Tabea Zimmermann, Jean-Guihen Queyras
Album: Brahms: String Sextets
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2021
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24bit, 96 kHz
Duration: 01:15:52
Total Tracks: 8
Total Size: 1,31 GB

Tracklist:

1. Belcea Quartet, Tabea Zimmermann, Jean-Guihen Queyras – Brahms: String Sextet No. 1, Op. 18: I. Allegro ma non troppo (14:44)
2. Belcea Quartet, Tabea Zimmermann, Jean-Guihen Queyras – Brahms: String Sextet No. 1, Op. 18: II. Andante ma moderato (09:31)
3. Belcea Quartet, Tabea Zimmermann, Jean-Guihen Queyras – Brahms: String Sextet No. 1, Op. 18: III. Scherzo. Allegro molto (03:09)
4. Belcea Quartet, Tabea Zimmermann, Jean-Guihen Queyras – Brahms: String Sextet No. 1, Op. 18: IV. Rondo. Poco allegretto e grazioso (10:09)
5. Belcea Quartet, Tabea Zimmermann, Jean-Guihen Queyras – Brahms: String Sextet No. 2, Op. 36: I. Allegro non troppo (13:54)
6. Belcea Quartet, Tabea Zimmermann, Jean-Guihen Queyras – Brahms: String Sextet No. 2, Op. 36: II. Scherzo. Allegro non troppo — Presto giocoso (07:25)
7. Belcea Quartet, Tabea Zimmermann, Jean-Guihen Queyras – Brahms: String Sextet No. 2, Op. 36: III. Poco adagio (08:52)
8. Belcea Quartet, Tabea Zimmermann, Jean-Guihen Queyras – Brahms: String Sextet No. 2, Op. 36: IV. Poco allegro (08:04)

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Brahms was one of the first composers to write for pairs of violins, violas and cellos, blazing the trail for Dvořák, Tchaikovsky, Korngold and Schoenberg. His two sextets are early works, composed in 1860 and 1865 respectively. Brahms wrote to his publisher that the Second was in “the same joyful vein” as the First. Yet the composer’s life was sombre at this time: his mother died suddenly and his romantic relationship with the soprano Agathe von Siebold ended in failure; indeed, the first movement of the Sextet opens with a viola motif on the notes A-G-A-D-B-E (AGADHE in German notation). The members of the Belcea Quartet called in their friends Tabea Zimmermann and Jean-Guihen Queyras to record these peaks of the chamber repertory following a concert tour to some of Europe’s major venues.