Pianist Alexandre Tharaud and cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras are long-established as a duo team, but this is the first time that Queyras has joined Tharaud for an Erato recording. They have chosen works that lie at the heart of the Romantic repertoire, all by Brahms: his two cello sonatas and the duo’s own transcriptions of six of the Hungarian Dances.

For the first time since their recording of Saint-Saëns La Muse et le Poète in 2013, the French brothers reunite for a recording of two of the great pillars of Romantic chamber music – Brahms’ string sextets. At the peak of the musical powers, they both appear regularly throughout the world on all the major concert hall platforms. Alongside their solo careers, performing chamber music with friends has always been an important part of their lives, and here they are joined by Austrian violinist Christoph Koncz, French violists Marie Chilemme and Gérard Caussé, and Austrian cellist Clemens Hagen. The album was recorded live at the Aix Easter Festival 2016. The sextets are amongst the most joyful and skilfully-written works of the Romantic chamber music canon. While his own voice as a composer can clearly be heard, outside influences from the great Classical era composers such as Schubert and Beethoven are also in evidence. The second sextet was written around the time Brahms became close to a young singer called Agathe von Siebold, so close in fact that many of their acquaintances thought they would eventually marry. Brahms however refused to be tied down and Agathe broke off the relationship. Near the end of the exposition of the first movement, the first and second violins together spell "Agathe" by playing the notes A-G-A-D-H-E, leading many to deem this work as dedicated to her. After completing the work Brahms wrote to a friend, "Here I have freed myself from my last love."

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01 Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 83 Composed by Johannes Brahms Performed by Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra with Krystian Zimerman, Wolfgang Herzer Conducted by Leonard Bernstein

伊莲·格里莫，法国女钢琴家；1969年生于法国普罗旺斯地区的艾克斯。13岁即被巴黎的法国音乐学院接收为学生，在此她获得了1985年度的雅克 鲁维耶古典音乐比赛首奖。后又随桑多尔和弗莱舍尔深造。 1987年，她参加了戛纳国际音像博览会和拉罗克－当特朗国际钢琴节，还在巴黎举办了她的第一次钢琴独奏音乐会，由巴伦勃伊姆指挥的法国乐团伴奏。 此后她曾与许多知名的乐团有过合作，如柏林爱乐乐团、伦敦交响乐团、莱比锡布业大厦乐团、欧洲室内乐团、皇家爱乐乐团、哥德堡交响乐团、圣彼德堡爱乐乐团、东京NHK 交响乐团，以及北美的波士顿、旧金山、多伦多、纽约等交响乐团。曾经合作过的指挥家，除巴伦勃伊姆外，还有阿巴多、布卢姆斯泰特、贝奇科夫、康伦、迪图瓦、贾维、津曼等。 《Reflection》是法国女钢琴家Helene Grimaud （海伦 格里莫）在DG发行的第二张专辑。演奏的6部钢琴作品分别是罗伯特．舒曼的A小调钢琴协奏曲、勃拉姆斯的第一和第二钢琴狂想曲、第一大提琴奏鸣曲，以及两首舒曼妻子克拉拉．舒曼的艺术歌曲。 唱片中请来和格里莫一起演奏第一大提琴奏鸣曲的是著名的大提琴演奏家Truls Mork，他获得过第44届格莱美奖最佳室内乐表演奖。负责演唱克拉拉两首艺术歌曲的是Anne Sofie Von Otter，她是一位蜚声国际音乐界的瑞典藉次女高音歌唱家。这张唱片的音乐主题都是围绕舒曼及其妻子以及他们的朋友勃拉姆斯之间的浪漫亲情与友情，其中的《A小调钢琴协奏曲》就是舒曼作品中最辉煌的一部，是舒曼向妻子克拉拉表达无限爱意的作品，格里莫的演奏理性中不失抒情和激情，声音生动而细腻，让人感受到女性的温柔气质的同时，也体会男性的力量和刚毅。还有值得一提的是唱片的录音非常出色，是DG的一流水平。

Two of today's most passionate and inspirational artists join forces in the recital programme that brought audiences to their feet at the Menuhin Festival in Gstaad in Summer 2011. The chemistry between Hélène Grimaud and Sol Gabetta left critics and audiences nothing short of euphoric and this first duo recording captures the revelatory magic of their collaboration The album reprises the same programme the duo performed in Gstaad: Robert Schumann’s Fantasiestücke, Claude Debussy’s Sonata for Cello and Piano in D minor, Johannes Brahms Sonata for Cello and Piano No.1 in E minor and Dmitri Shostakovich’s Sonata for Cello and Piano. Hélène’s recordings have been best-sellers on the Yellow Label with more than 800,000 units sold altogether to date. Sol is also a best-selling, chart-storming artist, who is regarded as one of the great cellists of our day.

现代人比一世纪前更崇敬勃拉姆斯，但真正了解他的人反而少了。大部分古典乐迷主要尊崇他的交响曲和协奏曲，然而这只是勃拉姆斯作品的一小部分而已。他其余的作品还包括24首室内乐、24首钢琴独奏曲，以及大约两百首歌曲；说到这些歌曲，我们不得不提及一些双钢琴或四手联弹的作品。像是《匈牙利舞曲》(Ungarische Tänze)、《爱之歌圆舞曲》及《新爱之歌圆舞曲》(Liebeslieder, Op. 52a & Op.65)等。 这张专辑收集了勃拉姆斯的作品《爱之歌圆舞曲》(Liebeslieder-walzer)及《新爱之歌圆舞曲》(Nene Liebeslieder-walzer)，再加上三首《四重唱练声曲》(Drei Quartette, Op.65)。勃拉姆斯乃承袭了贝多芬以来古典乐派的形态，再以浪漫主义的手法，创造出和声深厚、管弦乐富丽、结构严谨的音乐，具有驾驭人声融入旋律的歌曲创作能力。他的音乐织度常是丰润温暖的，有时甚至具有催眠力，游走于恬美的忧郁与贝多芬式的自我防御之间。写给混声合唱和钢琴四首联弹的新旧《爱之歌圆舞曲》，他运用当时社会所喜爱的圆舞曲节奏及音乐，选择歌德(第二组)的情诗，谱成混声四部(加上独唱者)的合唱曲，特别的是，以四手联弹钢琴伴奏；本曲旋律情感丰富但内敛，流泻着勃拉姆斯特有的抒情性，并且蕴藏着炽烈的感情，这些以民间通俗欢愉为题材的作品，散发着浓郁的纯朴芳香。