Brahms: String Quintets (In The Composer’s Four-Hand Piano Version) – Federica Righini & Riccardo Zadra

To hear these quintets in the four-hand transcriptions is to encounter a second face of the work, born with the first and bound to a concrete practice of private reading, rehearsal, correction, and circulation. The transcriptions preserve the original gesture as though in filigree and translate it into another medium, in which harmonic verticality and the continuity of the keyboard lay bare what, in the strings, often remains a secret of colour. The result is music that asks not merely to be heard, but to be inhabited, page by page, within the patient time of intelligence and of memory.