Schoenberg was a great admirer of Brahms. Schoenberg was so fond of Brahms' Piano Quartet op.25 that he made an arrangement of it for orchestra. That arrangement has been released on CD many times. What does it have to do with this CD? Actually not much, except for the fact that the Notos Quartet takes the opposite route. They play the Piano Quartet in the original version, combined with a chamber
… music arrangement of Brahms' Third Symphony. The result is surprising. Hidden structures are revealed (....) as a symbiosis between a symphonic sound and chamber musical clarity', according to the musicians. (HJ)more
