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The classical what are you listening to now ? thread.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08W57XNQP/?tag=pinkfishmedia-21

Brahms Piano Quartet no.1 in its original guise - not Schoenberg's orchestration, in a good performance but not in same league as others such as Stern/Laredo/Ma/Ax

But the companion piece is a kind of reverse-Schoenberg, an absolutely superb piano quartet arrangement of Brahms' 3rd Symphony. Its completely convincing and I enjoyed it hugely.

Sticking with chamber-size reductions:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00MWG7JE0/?tag=pinkfishmedia-21

This too is very good.... at times you could almost think its a full orchestra but its only about 14-15 musicians I think. What's very interesting is how the pared down sound in the 2nd and 3rd movements becomes something very redolent of Weimar-era decadent nightclubs in Berlin, very strong shades of Kurt Weil.
 
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gingermrkettle said:
Disc 7 of this has possibly one of the more incongruous couplings by a single composer.

6th symphony in all its oddness with the filler being RVW's version of the birdy song.*

* by which I mean Lark Ascending.
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Which a muso friend rather spoiled for me many years ago by saying it was a bit like music coming out of a tube, toothpaste like.
 
This was disc of the month in HFN a few years ago. Very nice and engineered by Tony Faulkner:

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Following on from Alan's excellent recommendation for the piano quartet transcription of Brahms 3rd symphony, here are the Notos Quartet again, this time playing Bartok.

Bartok?
I don't like Bartok. (That's not entirely true)

But this piano quartet, presumably a youthful work, is hugely engaging and enjoyable.
Really quite Brahmsian.

Interesting blurb from Amazon.. ..

"For years the Hungarian composer’s Piano Quartet in C minor op. 20 was believed to be lost but was rediscovered following extensive research by the members of the ensemble, who prepared the present edition on the basis of the composer’s autograph score."

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01N6F77YT/?tag=pinkfishmedia-21

https://open.spotify.com/album/75dqaA9gpcLqS6owMjlIGH?si=YqbN8cIlSXSEbPvWKgPtXg&utm_source=copy-link
 
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