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Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op 51 No. 2
Composer: Johannes Brahms
Performers: Armida Quartet
Recording date: 13 November 2015
Date of broadcast: 28 December 2015
The sense of loneliness and longing is overwhelming at the beginning of this quartet, and continues throughout. The last movement, based on the Hungarian CzΓ΅rdΓ΅s dance creates tension through a conflicting metre between melody and accompaniment.
Composer: Johannes Brahms
Performers: Armida Quartet
Recording date: 13 November 2015
Date of broadcast: 28 December 2015
