Johannes Brahms - Piano Quartets Nos. 2 & 3 (Krystian Zimerman; etc.)

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Composer: Johannes Brahms

• Piano Quartet No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 60
• Piano Quartet No. 2 in A Major, Op. 26

Krystian Zimerman, piano

Maria Nowak, violin

Katarzyna Budnik, viola

Yuya Okamoto, cello

Date: 2025

Label: Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

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Krystian Zimerman’s passion for chamber music goes back to his childhood and has accompanied him ever since. He states, “every great composer wrote some kind of quartet with piano. It’s a fantastic richness of music history that is often underestimated.” Although Brahms' first piano quartet is the best known of the three, Zimerman instead focuses on the sometimes-overlooked Piano Quartets Nos. 2 and 3 in order to give them the attention they deserve. He adds: “I particularly love the third quartet. It’s crazy. It’s so powerful. It has unbelievable drive.”

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