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Brahms: String Sextets
Johannes Brahms, L'Archibudelli, Anner Bylsma
Brahms: String Sextets
Genre: Classical
 
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The idea of Brahms on "period instruments" may seem strange, since the instruments of his time were nearly the same as ours. This ensemble, though, has gone far beyond the use of gut strings, to produce a warmer, less bril...  more »

     
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All Artists: Johannes Brahms, L'Archibudelli, Anner Bylsma, Vera Beths, Jurgen Kussmaul, Marilyn Mcdonald, Guus Jeukendrup, Kenneth Slowik
Title: Brahms: String Sextets
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Total Copies: 0
Label: Sony
Release Date: 7/23/1996
Genre: Classical
Style: Chamber Music
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 074646825228

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The idea of Brahms on "period instruments" may seem strange, since the instruments of his time were nearly the same as ours. This ensemble, though, has gone far beyond the use of gut strings, to produce a warmer, less brilliant sound than what we have come to expect from modern ensembles. They have investigated the period and have decided to play Brahms faster, and with lighter textures, than we are used to hearing today. - -Leslie Gerber
 

CD Reviews

Revolution!
D. Gammelgard | Falun, Sweden | 11/23/1999
(5 out of 5 stars)

"This cd brings out some amazing aspects of the Brahms sextets. Brahms playing in general have never been close to this! The instruments are strung with gut strings, as the instruments were at the time it was written, which creates some really unique sounds and gives an amazingly free bowing phrasing. When the steel-string sonorities and the constant vibrato has been removed, a pure and vital sound is created which gives so much to the music of Johannes Brahms, at least in the sextets. I really recommend this cd to anyone who wants to hear something very beautiful and unique! I truly hope this opens up the ears of the public and most important, the musicians, so that we can create new worlds for the music of Brahms and his contemporaries to exist in. And express the music in its own true colours!"
Gorgeous!
12/15/1999
(5 out of 5 stars)

"I prefer this recording to the one headed by Isaac Stern. Why? Because Stern and his team deliver an old-fashioned Brahms, with sluggish tempi, little contrast in articulation, and little feel for the subtleties of Brahms's part-writing. L'Archibudelli deliver the exact opposite. It's a pity that too many people still play Brahms as if his music were a reflection of the typical image of the composer as a fat bearded turd. There's a lot more to Brahms than that, and I'm glad that L'Archibudelli make this a point in their recording of the Sextets. Bravo!"
Beautiful!
eido | 09/26/2000
(5 out of 5 stars)

"I was surprised at first to see L'Archibudelli had recorded repertoire as late as the Brahms Sextets, but I fell in love with the recording as soon as I heard it. L'Archibudelli gives new life and energy to these chamber pieces: a lighter touch and livelier tempos than the usual rendition of later romantic works. The sextets are simply gorgeous compositions-- some of Brahms's best chamber works. Brahms is able to achieve an orchestral-sized spectrum of textures from the six instruments. I enjoy these especially since they offer a more intimate setting to experience the rich harmonic developments of the late romantics without being overwhelmed by gigantic masses of symphonic sound. The beautiful music married with the perfect sound of L'Archibudelli makes this disk a jewel."