L'Archibudelli - Brahms: String Sextets (1996)

This cd brings out some amazing aspects of the Brahms sextets. Brahms playing in general have never been close to this! The instruments are strung with gut strings, as the instruments were at the time it was written, which creates some really unique sounds and gives an amazingly free bowing phrasing. When the steel-string sonorities and the constant vibrato has been removed, a pure and vital sound is created which gives so much to the music of Johannes Brahms, at least in the sextets. I really recommend this cd to anyone who wants to hear something very beautiful and unique! I truly hope this opens up the ears of the public and most important, the musicians, so that we can create new worlds for the music of Brahms and his contemporaries to exist in. And express the music in its own true colours!