Artist: Mariani Klavierquartett

Title: Brahms & Gernsheim: Piano Quartets

Year Of Release: 2021

Label: Audax Records

Genre: Classical

Quality:  24bit-48kHz FLAC (tracks+booklet)

Total Time: 61:40

Total Size:  603 MB





Tracklist:



01. Piano Quartet in G Minor, Op. 25: I. Allegro (13:33)

02. Piano Quartet in G Minor, Op. 25: II. Intermezzo. Allegro (ma non troppo) (7:25)

03. Piano Quartet in G Minor, Op. 25: III. Andante con moto (9:23)

04. Piano Quartet in G Minor, Op. 25: IV. Rondo alla Zingarese. Presto (8:29)

05. Piano Quartet in C Minor, Op. 20: I. Allegro molto moderato (9:45)

06. Piano Quartet in C Minor, Op. 20: II. Adagio cantabile (7:10)

07. Piano Quartet in C Minor, Op. 20: III. Rondo. Allegro (5:59)



In the year of “social distancing,” the Mariani Piano Quartet dedicates itself to a today almost forgotten friendship and embarks with Audax Records upon a voyage of discovery in which the piano quartets of Johannes Brahms are juxtaposed with those by Friedrich Gernsheim.

Gernsheim, a child prodigy trained at the renowned Leipzig Conservatory, occupied – after a sojourn of several years in Paris, where he experienced the scandal-ridden Tannhäuser performances, and became acquainted with Rossini, Saint-Saëns, and Lalo – important positions in Saarbrücken, Berlin, Cologne, and Rotterdam. Mahler and Strauss held him in high regard and conducted his music. However, after his death his musical legacy fall victim to the anti-Semitic climate in Europe.



On the first album of a three-part series, the Mariani Piano Quartet presents Gernsheim’s sensuously indulging C-Minor Quartet alongside the perhaps best-known work of the genre: the Piano Quartet in G Minor, Op. 25, by Brahms with its unbridled energy and symphonic radiance. An intoxicating journey through time into the Romantic period in a captivating interpretation.