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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 Cz谩rd谩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

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