Geoffroy Couteau, Quatuor Hermès // Brahms #1 complete chamber music with piano

Quatuor Hermès Geoffroy Couteau

When a long-term project becomes a reality
In March 2016, Geoffroy Couteau presented the complete solo piano works of Johannes Brahms in a box set of six discs released by La Dolce Volta. After this magnum opus, the pianist reaffirms his passion for the composer by continuing his musical adventure with a complete recording of Brahms’s chamber music with piano.

Brahms, Geoffroy Couteau, Quatuor Hermès

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« Impressively muscular performance » Sunday Times Culture Magazine

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Quatuor Hermès and the pianist Geoffroy Couteau mark this new series with an impressively muscular performance of Brahms’s great F minor Piano Quintet, Op 34, the sharpness of the scherzo’s thrilling hocketings balanced by the slow movement’s penetrating warm-heartedness. Alone Couteau gives intimately opulent readings of the eight exquisitedly distilled Op 76 capriccios and intermezzos.

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« This is a fine performance, and the recording is clear and well balanced. » The Strad

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There is a purity in the Hermès’s playing, in contrast to the lush Romantic style of many. Early on they give a firm, almost heroic fortissimo statement of the opening theme, with a wonderful, melting change of character for the following piano melody. The gentle moments are among the most affecting … In the second movement the strings pulse gently above Couteau’s expressive theme before opening out gloriously into their molto espressivo melody. The whole movement has a winning natural flow to it. In the Scherzo the quartet really flexes its muscles, launching into the first fortissimo with big-boned jubilation, and snapping splendidly through the dotted rhythms. The Finale opens out into a great paragraph of colour and vivid contrast. This is a fine performance, and the recording is clear and well balanced.

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› Complete chamber music works with piano #1

Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34 / Allegro non troppo

14'53
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Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34 / Andante, un poco Adagio

8'00
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Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34 / Scherzo : Allegro – Trio

7'20
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Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34 / Finale. Poco sostenuto - Allegro non troppo - Presto, non troppo

10'11
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Klavierstücke op.76 / Capriccio in F sharp minor

3'30
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Klavierstücke op.76 / Capriccio in B minor

3'25
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Klavierstücke op.76 / Intermezzo in A flat major

2'29
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Klavierstücke op. / Intermezzo in B flat major

2'09
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Klavierstücke op.76 / Capriccio in C sharp minor

3'09
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Klavierstücke op.76 / Intermezzo in A major

3'20
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Klavierstücke op.76 / Intermezzo in A minor

2'59
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Klavierstücke op.76 / Capriccio in C major

3'26
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Geoffroy Couteau, Quatuor Hermès // Brahms #1 complete chamber music with piano

Quatuor Hermès Geoffroy Couteau

« Impressively muscular performance » Sunday Times Culture Magazine

« This is a fine performance, and the recording is clear and well balanced. » The Strad

› Complete chamber music works with piano #1

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