This is the second volume in the Mandelring Quartet's series of Audite recordings of the string quartets of Brahms coupled with string quartets of his lesser known contemporaries. The earlier volume coupled Brahms' C minor quartet with Friedrich Gernsheim's A minor quartet, the later volume coupled Brahms' A minor quartet with Felix Otto Dessoff's F major quartet, and this volume joins Brahms' B flat major quartet with Heinrich von Herzogenberg's G minor quartet.Both personally and musically, the connection between the two ...
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This is the second volume in the Mandelring Quartet's series of Audite recordings of the string quartets of Brahms coupled with string quartets of his lesser known contemporaries. The earlier volume coupled Brahms' C minor quartet with Friedrich Gernsheim's A minor quartet, the later volume coupled Brahms' A minor quartet with Felix Otto Dessoff's F major quartet, and this volume joins Brahms' B flat major quartet with Heinrich von Herzogenberg's G minor quartet.Both personally and musically, the connection between the two composers is closer here than in the other volumes: Herzogenberg married Brahms' good friend and former piano student Elisabet von Stockhausen, and Herzogenberg pretty clearly modeled his own works on Brahms'. Thus his four-movement quartet here has an approach to form, rhythm, and texture that recalls Brahms' own approach to such an extent that the unwary listener may be forgiven for confusing the two composers at first.As before in this series, the Mandelring Quartet is perhaps...
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