Piano Quartets

Album by Johannes Brahms & Jörg Demus & Barylli Quartet

Piano Quartets are a set of three chamber works by Johannes Brahms, composed between the early 1860s and the mid-1870s. They combine Romantic harmonic language and contrapuntal textures in a piano-and-strings chamber setting, representing a key span in Brahms's career as he developed his mature approach to structure and thematic development within the German Romantic tradition.

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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, op. 25: I. Allegro
    12:34
  2. 2.
    Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, op. 25: II. Intermezzo (Allegro ma non troppo)
    8:44
  3. 3.
    Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, op. 25: III. Andante con moto
    9:36
  4. 4.
    Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, op. 25: IV. Rondo alla Zingarese
    7:58
  5. 5.
    Piano Quartet No. 3 in C minor, op. 60: I. Allegro non troppo
    9:53
  6. 6.
    Piano Quartet No. 3 in C minor, op. 60: II. Scherzo. Allegro
    4:13
  7. 7.
    Piano Quartet No. 3 in C minor, op. 60: III. Andante
    9:16
  8. 8.
    Piano Quartet No. 3 in C minor, op. 60: IV. Finale. Allegro comodo
    10:35

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    Piano Quartet No. 2 in A major, op. 26: I. Allegro non troppo
    14:15
  2. 3.
    Piano Quartet No. 2 in A major, op. 26: II. Poco adagio
    12:50
  3. 4.
    Piano Quartet No. 2 in A major, op. 26: III. Scherzo (Poco allegro)
    10:36
  4. 5.
    Piano Quartet No. 2 in A major, op. 26: IV. Finale (Allegro)
    9:09

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