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String Quintet No. 2 in G major, Op. 111

189030 min

This guide follows Brahms’s String Quintet No. 2 in G major, Op. 111 (1890) in four parts: Allegro non troppo, ma con brio (sonata form), Adagio, Un poco Allegretto and Vivace, ma non troppo presto (sonata form).

Recording: Pierre Fouchenneret, Suichi Okada (violins), Lise Berthaud, Adrien Boisseau (violas), François Salque (cello)

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Follow all 33 sections as they play

  1. I , ma · Sonata form
  2. II
  3. III
  4. IV, · Sonata form
I , ma Sonata form0:19–12:39

, ma , in 9/8: the cello launches the with a bold sweep across most of its range, and the violins then take over the . A follows in the second violin, and then the closes. The begins in B-flat and works over the at length. The arrives and leads to a .

  1. : 1
  2. :
II12:56–18:47
III 19:21–24:14
IV, Sonata form24:36–30:17

Section boundaries in music are not always sharp; a transition may be felt over a pause or a held chord.

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