Johannes Brahms: String Quartet No.1 in C minor Op.51 / Belcea Quartet

Johannes Brahms: String Quartet No.1 in C minor Op.51

Belcea Quartet

Corina Belcea, violin
Axel Schacher, violin
Antoine Lederlin, violoncello
Krzysztof Chrozelski, viola

00:00 Allegro
11:25 Romanze : Poco adagio
18:40 Allegretto molto moderato e comodo - Un poco più animato
28:05 Allegro

Recorded on 23rd February 2021 at Musik- und Kulturzentrum Don Bosco Basel, Paul Sacher Saal

Film: Johannes Bachmann
Sound: Joël Cormier

© HMF Productions 2021

[tobiasseyb]

Schade, dass man nur 1 like geben kann...
Wunderbar, als Geiger weiss ich, wieviel Arbeit und Hingabe solch einer Aufführung vorausgegangenen sind.

[staffanolofsson]

I never get tired listening to this. This String Quartet has almost all of the human emotions we know by now. Thank you, Belcea Quartet for exellent playing, and thank you, PLANET CHAMBER MUSIC.

[stevegebhart]

Brahms just does a great job of making a virtuoso quartet be all it can be! This is a great performance as it hits all the emotional highs and lows prevailant in this particular work and leaves us with feeling of satisfaction and release. The second movement is so beautiful and so well done that no more could be asked of this performance.

[waggishsagacity]

I have never heard this gorgeous quartet before, and I'm delighted to have heard it in such a crisp, emotion-filled, and intimate performance. I hope to hear more performances by The Belcea Quartet --another first for me. I must give special praise to whoever chose this remarkable and abstract setting (foreshadowing the surprisingly modern piece, to my mind), and special thanks to the videographer, Johannes Bachmann, and to the sound engineer, Joël Cormier, who enhanced the pleasure of listening to the Opus 51/1 Quartet and its performance. Well done! Thanks.

[gasparocelloman]

Beautifully played. Such a treat. Many thanks.

[baglmonstr]

The recording quality of this video is astonishing. Take my word for it; I've listened to dozens of recordings since 1994. It's also beautifully shot. Those little fairy lights look like stars suspended in the concert hall.

[thomasmyers]

I'm completely overwhelmed! What a beautiful quartet. Thank you for a wonderful performance.

[staffanolofsson]

0:05 Allegro
11:25 Romannze : Poco adagio
18:40 Allegretto molto moderato e comodo - Un poco più animato
28:05 Allegro

[oj]

Everything about this performance and recording/filming is SUPERB!! Thank you!

[Olenka_NYC]

Excellent performance and I love the various camera angles that capture the fantastic left hand techniques of the musicians. I admire the passion with which they play. Gorgeous.

[leporello]

I never expected to fell such emotion listening a piece Heard so Many times before. Congratulations.

[inthemisthan]

Thanks to this performance, I was able to blow away today's melancholy.

[francoisbazantay]

Bravo ! Un ensemble d'une telle perfection ! Et j'ai rarement entendu une telle compréhension en profondeur de cette musique !

[VitusStarkov]

What an outstanding performance of such a wondrous quartet! I must admit that I had for some reason never heard this piece before, but I am so glad that I was able to experience it for the first time with this ensemble!

[organboi]

Could not POSSIBLY be performed any better. Incredible group.

[thomasmyers]

Wonderful, beautifully played, thank you.

[artem.non.odit.nisi.ignarus]

Neben dieser wunderbaren musikalischen Leistung 🎶 - was für eine schöne Kameraführung! 🎥

[crly]

beautiful performance. Sometimes feel like the quartets don't get enough love

[genesbeans]

The whole thing is full of passion and beauty It's about his love for Clara Schumann.

[Timmmmartin]

Superb playing of a great work. Strictly speaking, this is Op.51 No.1. The other one in A minor is even better imo.