Recording of a new album featuring Brahms quintets

photo © Lukáš Kadeřábek

Pavel Haas Quartet with their new member Luosha Fang (viola) are recording their new, highly anticipated album these days. The new album will be featuring String Quintet No. 2 in G major, Op. 111 and Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34 by Johannes Brahms and the recording sessions take place in Studio Domovina, Prague where the Ouartet recorded some of their previous albums (for example SU 4172-2 Bedřich Smetana – String Quartet No. 1 in E minor „From my Life“ and String Quartet No. 2 in D minor / Gramophone Chamber Award 2015, BBC Music Magazine Chamber Award 2015). Same as in case of the Gramophone Chamber Award 2018 winning album SU 4195-2 Antonín  Dvořák – Quintets Op. 81 & 97, the Pavel Haas Quartet will record the new album with special guests Boris Giltburg (piano) and Pavel Nikl (viola, exPHQ member). The new album is supposed to be released in May 2022.