{"product_id":"769180","title":"Takács Quartet - Brahms: String Quartets Nos. 1 \u0026 3 [CD]","description":"Brand New From Reputable UK Company With 30 Years Experience In Retail, Please Note Not All Our New Items Are Shrink Wrapped.\u003cbr\u003eAll items shipped within 3 working days of payment.\u003cbr\u003ePlease note that all our DVDs are Region 2.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePlease note that not all audio CDs are shrink-wrapped fom the factory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNew recordings by the Takacs Quartet on Hyperion have become important landmarks in the musical calendar. This second disc of Brahms string quartets looks set to repeat all the commercial and critical success of their first.\\r\u003cbr\u003eIt took twenty years for the famously self-critical Brahms to release his Op 51 string quartets for publication. Despite frequent requests, they were held back until they had reached his requisite standard of perfection. It is clear that Brahms\\u2019s struggle with the string quartet medium eventually led him to find an intensely personal language for it, with an unmistakable originality of melody and texture. Op 51 No 1 is both suffused with great musical richness and organically unified, with each idea growing with unerring logic out of the last in a process of continual development, and the main subject of each movement clearly arising out of the same germ.\\r\u003cbr\u003eHaving hesitated so long over his first two string quartets, Brahms managed to produce their successor, Op 67, without any protracted birth-pangs, and the fact that the new work was dedicated to a well-known physician prompted him to elaborate on the medical analogy. \\u2018I am\\u2019, he told Theodor Wilhelm Engelmann (the husband of the pianist Emma Brandes, and himself a keen amateur cellist) \\u2018publishing a string quartet, and may need a doctor for it (as with the first ones). This quartet rather resembles your wife\\u2014very dainty, but brilliant! \\u2026 It\\u2019s no longer a question of a forceps delivery; but of simply standing by. There\\u2019s no cello solo in it, but such a tender viola solo that you may want to change your instrument for its sake!\\u2019\u003cp\u003eVivace [9'33]\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAndante [6'41]\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAgitato, Allegretto non troppo [7'40]\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePoco allegretto con variazioni [9'25]\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAllegro [10'51]\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRomanze: Poco adagio [6'21]\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAllegretto molto moderato e comodo - Un poco pi\\xc3\\x83\\xc2\\xb9 animato [8'19] 8 Allegro [5'41]\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chalkys.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55144806809985,"sku":"769180","price":12.98,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0056\/8043\/1219\/files\/61Z9b39c-RL._SL1500.jpg?v=1767761415","url":"https:\/\/chalkys.com\/products\/769180","provider":"Chalkys.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}