
Belcea String Quartet
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Belcea String Quartet
London Winds
Brahms: Quartet No.2 in a minor, Op.51/2
Schubert: Octet in F, D.803
ENF10 launches with a feast of rich Romanticism offered by a pair of world-class ensembles. These pieces present their composers as night and day: after all, Schubert wrote his Octet in a matter of weeks in 1824, while Brahms agonising for 8 years before allowing his string quartet to be heard. The Octet owes plenty to Schubert's adventures in the opera house, while Brahms' inspirations were, above all, Mozart and Beethoven. But Brahms was a true Schubertian, as he wrote: 'My love for Schubert is a serious one, precisely because it is not a passing fancy.' That love is more than evident in this moving quartet. |