Batiashvili, Aimard & Friends: Brahms Piano Quartet No. 1

Filmed at the Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival in 2002, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Lisa Batiashvili, Vladimir Mendelssohn and Sonia Wieder-Atherton perform Brahms’s Piano Quartet No. 1 — a work that moves from inward lyricism to the exhilarating sweep of its ‘Rondo alla zingarese’ finale. The intimate setting of Kuhmo Hall brings a particular clarity to a collaboration that pairs Aimard, already an influential presence in both contemporary and classical repertoire, with Batiashvili at the start of her career, alongside Mendelssohn and Wieder-Atherton, long associated with the European chamber tradition.