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BRAHMS: QUARTET IN B-FLAT, OP. 67, VIVACE

Johannes Brahms once said that he had written twenty quartets and had used the manuscripts to paper the walls in his apartment. He wasn’t joking. Because Beethoven had such huge boots to fill in the composition of symphonies and string quartets, Jo wasn’t sure he was ready to publish in those genres until he reached middle age. His two quartets of Opus 51 have always left me cold, but the Opus 67 quartet is a blast. It’s always fun to find Brahms in one of his sunny moods. Those are horn calls in the strings that open the movement. The second subject is a ländler, a German country dance.

Brahms: Quartet in B-flat, Op. 67, first movement