Franck - Piano Quintet - Brahms - Piano Quartet in G minor

César Franck

Piano Quintet in F minor, M. 7 (Op. 14)

Alfred Cortot, Piano
International String Quartet

André Mangeot, 1st violin / Boris Pecker, 2nd violin
Frank Howard, viola / Herbert Withers, cello

(HMV, recorded 1927)

Johannes Brahms

Piano Quartet in G minor, Op. 25

Artur Rubinstein, Piano
Member of the Pro Arte Quartet

Alphonse Onnou, 1st Violin
Laurent Halleux, 2nd Violin
Robert Maas, Cello

(HMV, recorded July 6, 1936)

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These are new transfers made this
weekend (June 5 - 7). I couldn't
find a better way to spend a weekend
- although many people on this earth
have just spent their time doing things
in the opposite direction of this music
and what it stands for in a broad sense
(but these performances are also meant
specifically).

It's food for the soul - the art of
speaking to other human beings, after
all ... an endangered commodity ...
something one can't have too much of;
a fundamental thing which we can't
afford to lose.

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Transfers of above 78 rpm material.
Includes original covers, labels and notes.