now playing

start of Brahms: Piano Quartet No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 25
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Pmb322WJOA&list=OLAK5uy_lG9BC4FT2sdiLdH3ib74Aer6X7_1xCu0o&index=2

start of Brahms: Piano Quartet No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 60
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSrzDsVFhNM&list=OLAK5uy_lG9BC4FT2sdiLdH3ib74Aer6X7_1xCu0o&index=6

start of Brahms: Piano Quartet No. 2 in A Major, Op. 26
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UX2gfJQKE4&list=OLAK5uy_lG9BC4FT2sdiLdH3ib74Aer6X7_1xCu0o&index=10

start of Brahms: Intermezzos, Op. 117
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1lzKYWE8cI&list=OLAK5uy_lG9BC4FT2sdiLdH3ib74Aer6X7_1xCu0o&index=13

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lG9BC4FT2sdiLdH3ib74Aer6X7_1xCu0o

read the blurb for this recording and there's this interesting tidbit,
>The following year saw the premiere of the A major quartet, Brahms himself at the piano in offering to the world a work which would be hugely popular during his lifetime before falling inexplicably to the periphery of the repertoire in recent times. It was over a decade later, in 1873/4, that Brahms returned to his aborted C minor quartet: "Imagine a man who is just going to shoot himself, for there is nothing else to do", wrote composer to publisher of this profoundly moving score.

huh...