Johannes Brahms: Historically-Informed Recording of the Piano Quartets
- Submitting institution
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Birmingham City University
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 33Z_OP_I0059
- Type
- I - Performance
- Venue(s)
- recorded at Ehrbar Saal, Vienna
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of first performance
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- Year of first performance
- 2019
- URL
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https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1025740/1025741
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This Research Catalogue exposition presents a double CD of Johannes Brahms’s Piano Quartets, recorded on period instruments in Vienna by The Primrose Piano Quartet for the Meridian label (CDE84650/1-2, 2019). The full recording is presented in streamable MP3 format alongside a PDF of the CD booklet. Accompanying the recording is an essay which documents the research questions, methodology and processes underpinning the work. Preparation, rehearsal, recording and editing are discussed as a process of interpretative investigation. Significantly, alternate takes are provided detailing the experimental, exploratory process involved. The resulting commercial recording offers a radically innovative historically-informed approach to Brahms’s chamber music. Professor John Thwaites, Head of the Department of Keyboard Studies at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, is pianist with the Primrose Piano Quartet and author of the essay in addition to much of the CD booklet.
The Research Catalogue exposition lends interpretative-investigative context to the double CD whilst making it clear that it is the recording itself which constitutes the primary artefact.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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