Giovanni Guzzo, Máté Szűcs, Miklos Perenyi, Dénes Varjon – Brahms: Complete Piano Quartets (2024) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Giovanni Guzzo, Máté Szűcs, Miklos Perenyi, Dénes Varjon – Brahms: Complete Piano Quartets (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:01:14 minutes | 2,02 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Hungaroton

Brahms’ piano quartets are the undisputed highlights of the composer’s oeuvre. Hungaroton has recorded this album with some of the most prominent current classical artists, which allows the pieces to reveal their distinctive characteristics in a unique and unified atmosphere.

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Hélène Grimaud, Konstantin Krimmel, Camerata Salzburg, Giovanni Guzzo – For Clara: Works by Schumann & Brahms (Extended Edition) (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Hélène Grimaud, Konstantin Krimmel, Camerata Salzburg, Giovanni Guzzo – For Clara: Works by Schumann & Brahms (Extended Edition) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:43:52 minutes | 1,68 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

Inspired by the Romantic storyteller E. T. A. Hoffmann’s eccentric alter ego, Robert Schumann’s Kreisleriana is a work Hélène Grimaud has known since she was a teenager and has recorded once before – yet, as she says, “you can spend a lifetime with a piece like this and always find something new”. In revisiting it here, she’s paired it with two pieces by Schumann’s protégé, Johannes Brahms, including a set of songs in which Brahms distilled his unrequited love for Schumann’s widow Clara, and for which Grimaud is partnered by sensational young baritone Konstantin Krimmel. The Extended Edition of her album For Clara complements pianist Hélène Grimaud’s recording of Schumann’s Kreisleriana and Brahm’s Op. 117 Intermezzi and Op. 32 songs with a recording of her 2022 performance of the Schumann Piano Concerto with the Camerata Salzburg at Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie. The second movement, which is now available, gives a first impression of Hélène Grimaud performing one of the most widely recorded piano concertos from the Romantic period.

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