Brahms - Piano Quartet No.1 in G minor Op. 25 (Batiashvili, V. Mendelssohn, Aimard, Wieder-Atherton)

From the Kuhmo Festival for Chamber music, Finland Johannes Brahms - Klavierquartett Nr. 1 in g-Moll, Opus 25 Piano - Pierre-Laurent Aimard Violin - Lisa Batiashvili Violin - Vladimir Mendelssohn Cello - Sonia Wieder-Atherton 0:00 Entrance 00:37 - I. Allegro 14:42 - II. Intermezzo: Allegro ma non troppo — Trio: Animato 22:37 - III. Andante con moto 30:15 - IV. Rondo all Zingarese: Presto Subscribe to wocomoMUSIC: Follow us on Facebook: Born in Tbilisi, Lisa Batiashvili moved to Germany with her family at the age of eleven. There she studied with Mark Lubotsky and with Ana Chumachenco. The youngest-ever entrant in the International Jean Sibelius Violin Competition in 1995, she made her breakthrough as winner of its second prize. She was named winner of the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival’s Leonard Bernstein Award in 2003 and awarded the 2006 Beethoven Ring Prize by the Beethoven Festival Bonn. Vladimir Mendelssohn was born into a family of musicians and attended the National University of Music Bucharest. He taught at a number of conservatories, such as the Conservatoire de Paris, where he served as a professor of chamber music. He was also a professor at the Folkwang University of the Arts and the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. Pierre-Laurent Aimard was born in Lyon, where he entered the conservatory. Later he studied with Yvonne Loriod and with Maria Curcio. In 1973, he was awarded the chamber music prize of the Paris Conservatoire. In the same year, he won the first prize at the international Olivier Messiaen Competition. In 1977, at the invitation of Pierre Boulez, he became a founding member of the Ensemble InterContemporain. Sonia Wieder - Atherton was born in San Francisco, she grew up in New York and then in Paris where she entered the Conservatoire de Paris in Maurice Gendron’s class. She is the sister of Claire Atherton. After her studies at the Conservatoire de Paris in the cello classes of Maurice Gendron and chamber music of Jean Hubeau, she studied with Mstislav Rostropovich, then two years at the Moscow Conservatory with Natalia Shakhovskaya. In 1986, she was a laureate of the concours de violoncelle Rostropovitch. In chamber music, she plays with pianists Imogen Cooper, Jean-Claude Pennetier, Laurent Cabasso, cellists Raphaël Oleg and Silvia Marcovici, the violist Gérard Caussé, percussionist Françoise Rivalland. In 1999, the Académie des beaux-arts (France) awards her the Grand Prix Del Duca. © 2002, Licensed by Digital Classics Distribution