String Quartet No. 2 / String Quintet No. 2

Album by Johannes Brahms & Pražák Quartet & Vladimír Bukač

String Quartet No. 2 and String Quintet No. 2 are chamber works by Johannes Brahms, composed in 1873 and 1890 respectively. Both pieces belong to the late-Romantic chamber-music tradition, characterised by dense polyphonic textures, rich harmonic language and rigorous motivic development that reflect Brahms's classical grounding; the quartet represents a mid-career consolidation of his string-writing technique while the quintet shows a later, more expansive and contrapuntally driven approach to form and texture.

String Quartet No. 2 / String Quintet No. 2 by Johannes Brahms - album cover

First released: 2006

Classical

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1.
Quartet for 2 Violins, Viola, and Cello No. 1 in A minor, Op. 51 No. 2: I. Allegro non troppo
12:25
2.
Quartet for 2 Violins, Viola, and Cello No. 1 in A minor, Op. 51 No. 2: II. Andante moderato
8:38
3.
Quartet for 2 Violins, Viola, and Cello No. 1 in A minor, Op. 51 No. 2: III. Quasi minuetto. Moderato - Allegretto vivace
4:47
4.
Quartet for 2 Violins, Viola, and Cello No. 1 in A minor, Op. 51 No. 2: IV. Finale. Allegro non assai - Più vivace
7:02
5.
Quintet for 2 Violins, 2 Violas, and Cello No. 2 in G major, Op. 111: I. Allegro non troppo, ma con brio
12:22
6.
Quintet for 2 Violins, 2 Violas, and Cello No. 2 in G major, Op. 111: II. Adagio
6:00
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Quintet for 2 Violins, 2 Violas, and Cello No. 2 in G major, Op. 111: III. Un poco Allegretto
4:51
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Quintet for 2 Violins, 2 Violas, and Cello No. 2 in G major, Op. 111: IV. Vivace, ma non troppo presto
4:42