Pablo Massa wrote: >My friend Miguel asked me, some days ago, about good recordings of >Schumann's chamber music, excepting lieder cycles and piano solo music. >As I'm not a fanatic of Schumann's chamber works, excepting these two last >categories, I couldn't recommend him more than a few releases by the Beaux >Arts Trio, and the piano quintet by Serkin/Budapest. I suppose that many >people in the list knows a lot about the subject, and I would like, then, >some recommendations. With pleasure! For years I have been hoping to find a set of the complete string quartets of Schumann. Finally I found a boxed set on Hungaroton Classic HCD 12918-19 of ALL THREE quartets played beautifullly by the Takacs Quartet. In addition, there is a performance of the Trout Quintet of Schubert with Zoltan Kocsis on this set. I am also very fond of the Complete Schumann Trios as performed by the OLD Beaux Arts Trio (Pressler, Cohen and Greenhouse) and the two-cd set from Philips, a budget set (456-323-2) also includes the Piano Quartet with a yummy cello solo, and the Piano Quintet. The extra violist is Samuel Rhodes, and the extra bass player is Dolf Bettelheim. The violin and piano sonatas are also wonderful. A knockout cd with Argerich and Kremer is not to be missed! Mimi Ezust <[log in to unmask]>