Description
After Volume 1, which was awarded a Diapason d'or, Mariani Klavierquartett continues its journey
of discovery, juxtaposing the piano quartets of Johannes Brahms and Friedrich Gernsheim.
Although this
second album is dominated by Brahms's luminescent A-Major Quartet and although the
friendship of the two composers stands at the center of this three-part project, Gernsheim's F-Major
Quartet shows that not only Brahms numbered among his influences, but that Gernsheim was also able to
blend echoes of Beethoven, Mendelssohn, and Schubert into a convincing personal style. In the hands of
the Mariani Piano Quartet, the formal perfection of his fervent work gleams with undreamt-of power.