The G major String Quintet was to have been Brahms’s swan-song. He was in his late fifties when he composed it, and had vowed to lay his pen aside; but the following year he met the clarinettist ...

Brahms Piano Quintet; String Quintet No. 2 Pavel Haas Quartet; Boris Giltburg (piano) Supraphon SU4306-2 71:44 mins Brahms tried out several formats for a powerful four-movement work in F minor that ...

Brahms wrote three string quartets – or rather, he wrote three string quartets that he liked enough to let us hear them: we’ll never know how many were burned and abandoned along the way. The ...