Brahms: Four-Hand Piano Music, Vol. 10 - Silke-Thora Matthies, Christian Köhn

Brahms was an accomplished pianist, whose output for the piano spanned his entire life. In addition to his solo works he made four-hand piano arrangements of many of his orchestral and vocal scores, to give them greater accessibility. This also extended to chamber music repertoire, as evidenced here by the piano arrangements of his first two String Quartets, Op. 51. These two works represent years of experimentation with writing for string quartet, Brahms having reportedly destroyed earlier attempts at mastering this demanding musical form.