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Building a Library – Brahms

Recommended recordings

Clarinet Quintet in B minor Op. 115

Reviewer: Colin Lawson
Broadcast: 3rd December 2011

Recommended sets include

  • BRAHMS: Clarinet Quintet in B minor Op. 115
    c/w MOSCHELES: Variations and Finale
    SCHUMANN: Marchenerzahlungen for Clarinet, Viola & Piano Op. 132
    Richard Hosford (clarinet), Nash Ensemble
    WIGMORE HALL LIVE WHLIVE0007 (CD, midprice)

4 Serious Songs

Reviewer: Richard Wigmore
Broadcast: 12th February 2011

First choice:
  • c/w SCHUBERT: Schwanengesang
  • Thomas Quasthoff (baritone) / Justus Zeyen (piano)
  • DG 471 0302 (CD)

Quartet Op. 51/1 C minor

Reviewer: Piers Burton-Page
Broadcast: 25th September 2010

First choice:
  • BRAHMS: String Quartet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 51 No. 1; Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34
  • Quatuor Ebene
  • Akiko Yamamoto (piano)
  • Virgin 2166222 (CD)

Die Schone Magelone

Reviewer: Hilary Finch
Broadcast: 13th March 2010

First choice:
  • Baritone and piano:
  • c/w SCHUBERT: Auf der Donau; Der Wanderer; An die Freunde; Prometheus; Aus Helopolis II; Der Wanderer an den Mond; Fischerweise Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) / Sviatoslav Richter (piano [Brahms]) / Benjamin Britten (piano [Schubert]) [live at Aldeburgh 20 June 1965]
  • BBC Legends BBCL42552 (CD)

  • Tenor, narrator and fortepiano:
  • Christoph Pregardien (tenor) / Andreas Staier (fortepiano) / Vanessa Redgrave (narrator)
  • Teldec 8573809162 (CD)

Klavierstucke Op. 118

Reviewer: David Owen-Norris
Broadcaster: 25th April 2009

First Choice Recommendation:
  • (c/w Klavierstucke Opp. 116 and 119)
  • Stefan Vladar (piano)
  • Harmonia Mundi HMC901844 (CD)

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