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Subject: Re: new Brahms string quintets album
Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2024 07:50:21 +0000
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Todd:
"There's a new release on Bis from the Gringolts Quartet with Lilli
Maijala.  I listened once on streaming, with a positive impression,
so intend to spend some more time with it at some point....  I enjoy
e.g. the "orchestral" feel they get from Op.88."

What I don't understand is labels are still doing these museum-like
recordings. All of Brahms's string quintets. Admittedly, it's only two
pieces, but it's not like anyone isn't fully and duplicatedly aware
Brahms wrote these two pieces.

It would have been more fun and interesting if the Gringolts had done
one of the Brahms works (pref the F major) and recorded one or two more
works demonstrating that great chamber music was really getting composed
AFTER the year 1900, or even much later. A Reger work, a Hindemith piece
or even Kurtag or Ligeti, just to combat the ever shrinking repertoire.