Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective concludes their series of pairing Brahms’s three piano quartets with lesser known contemporaries. The final installment features the Quartet No. 1 paired with Dora Pejačević’s Piano Quartet in D Minor, Op. 25 and her Impromptu for Piano Quartet, Op. 9b. “We can imagine some eyebrows being raised at the description of Dora Pejačević as a contemporary of Brahms; the two composers were born more than fifty years apart, and their lives only overlapped by twelve years. Yet both works by Pejačević are unmistakably from the same compositional lineage as that by Brahms; and both are works written early on in Pejačević’s remarkable (and, sadly, all-too-short) life. Both pieces belong clearly to the romantic tradition, displaying no hint of the more modernist directions which her later works would take. We were immediately intoxicated by the passionate sweep of Pejačević’s Piano Quartet, but also the tenderness of its slow movement, and felt it would make the perfect bedfellow for the First Piano Quartet of Brahms…justly one of the best-loved of all chamber works” – Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective.