In Reply to: Could you narrow that down a bit? posted by rbolaw on November 10, 2015 at 14:49:12:
Piano trios by Beethoven, Brahms, Faure, Debussy and Ravel; Piano Quintets by Schumann, Brahms and Franck; String quintets by Mozart and Brahms; String sextets by Mendelssohn and Brahms; Woodwind quintets by Reicha, Hindemith, Ibert and Neilsen; Clarinet quintets by Mozart and Brahms; Sextet for piano and winds by Poulenc; Beethoven septet; Mendelssohn and Schubert octets.
A bit more adventurous: trios by Reger; string quartets by Ives; trio and string quartets by Roussel and string quartets by Zemlinsky.
All of this can easily be found on LP. I like Philips LPs, so I look for the Grumiaux and Beaux Arts Trios, Quartetto Italiano, Netherlands Wind Ensemble, etc. I also like the Boston Symphony Chamber players, on RCA or DG. The Juilliard and Budapest string quartets were not always recorded in the best sound, but it's worth putting up with that for them.
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- Now I have a bit more time: - rbolaw 16:37:25 11/10/15 (0)