string sextet no. 1 in b flat major, opus 18

Consider writing about your experience and musical tastes.Do you like the artist? Is the transcription accurate? Is it a good teaching tool? Explain exactly why you liked or disliked the product.Naturally, it is available in both score and parts. Brahms specialist Katrin Eich has already taken on the task of editing the work for the Brahms Complete Edition, and this new Urtext edition provides the best possible musical text for performance. The numerous differences between these two first editions of 1861 continue to present problems to Brahms researchers today.

The publisher Simrock was so impressed by it that he accepted Brahms's suggestion that he should publish a score of it alongside the individual parts - something that was by no means usual at the time. It was popular with both public and press, and has retained this status to the present day. The Sextet in B-flat major was already judged to be “one of the most beautiful works by this young composer” after its initial performances in early 1861. However, elsewhere the players demonstrate a deep understanding of Brahms’s music, with their beautifully clear textures in the scherzo, the poised, otherworldly calm of their Poco adagio and the last movement’s charmingly lilting Viennese waltz.Chamber Ensemble String Sextet (Study Score) Study Score. Sextet no.2 gets off to a less promising start, with ensemble between the violin’s rising melody and the undulating viola quavers failing to gel. If the last two movements are sometimes too careful and cerebral, the scherzo’s joyous, whirling trio goes a long way towards dispelling any fustiness. The Andante’s noble viola melody is luxuriously bowed, and the listener fully experiences the variety of textures in the variations, from billowing waves of demisemiquavers to the bare sound of open strings. Listening to the disc’s closely recorded sound, there’s the sensation of sitting among the players, with every detail audible, particularly the middle parts. The ensemble creates a rich, brown sound that immerses one in warmth, a mood maintained by the gently lilting second subject – but then sadly shattered when the tempo is too brusquely pushed on at the animato cello theme. The expansive opening of Brahms’s B flat major Sextet is one of the great moments in chamber music and the all-Czech Pražák, joined by half of the Zemlinsky Quartet, does not disappoint. Musicians: Pražák Quartet, Petr Holman (viola) Vladimír Fortin (cello) Description: A generally successful pairing of Brahms’s two sextets

String sextet no. 1 in b flat major, opus 18