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Brahms: Piano Works (Klavierstücke Op. 76, Intermezzi Op. 117, etc.)

Adam Laloum

Classical - Released January 18, 2011 | Mirare

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Brahms: The Final Piano Pieces, Op. 116-119

Stephen Hough

Classical - Released January 3, 2020 | Hyperion

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By the early 1890s, Johannes Brahms began thinking that his career was approaching its end, perhaps because of his growing awareness of his mortality, due to the deaths of several close friends. In spite of that, encouragement from Brahms' publisher Fritz Simrock and a renewed burst of creativity brought about the major works of his final years, which included chamber pieces for clarinetist Richard Mühlfeld; a collection of arrangements of German Folk Songs; the Four Serious Songs; the 11 Chorale Preludes; and the piano pieces published as the Fantasias, Op. 116, the Intermezzos, Op. 117, the Clavierstücke, Op. 118, and the Clavierstücke, Op. 119. This group of 20 keyboard pieces collectively represent the autumnal and sometimes gloomy moods that dominated Brahms' thoughts in his last decade, and have even retroactively colored the overall character his music, suggesting a nostalgic attitude in his work as a whole. Yet there is a balance between melancholy and exuberance in Brahms, and while much can be made of the sorrowful events in his life that influenced him, particularly in the Intermezzos, Op. 117 (which he considered to be lullabies for his sorrows), expressions in the late piano music are artfully conceived and perhaps less a measure of Brahms' emotional state than of his genius. Stephen Hough has recorded Brahms' piano concertos, and some of the chamber works, but this 2019 Hyperion album is his first album since 2001 devoted to Brahms' solo piano works. At this stage of his career, Hough seems to have found the right approach to these character pieces, which can be just as fiery and passionate as they are sad or sentimental. However, just as important are their structures and formal designs, which show an active and lively imagination, especially in Brahms' use of chromatic harmony and his sometimes expansive treatment of the Romantic "miniature."© TiVo
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Brahms: 3 Intermezzi, Op. 117 & Klavierstücke, Op. 118 & 119

Lars Vogt

Classical - Released January 13, 2023 | Warner Classics

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Johannes Brahms: Piano Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2, Variations on a Hungarian Song & Klavierstücke

Sviatoslav Richter

Classical - Released June 1, 2013 | Praga Digitals

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Brahms: Late Piano Music, Opp. 76, 79, 116-119

Charles Owen

Classical - Released November 16, 2018 | Avie Records

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Brahms: Fantasien, Op. 116, Intermezzi, Op. 117, Klavierstücke, Op. 118 & 119

Nicholas Angelich

Classical - Released January 15, 2007 | Warner Classics

In 2006, the year prior to the release of this two-disc set of Brahms' late piano music, young American pianist Nicholas Angelich released a single disc of Brahms' early piano music featuring the Ballads and the Paganini Variations. That disc was a marvel and a wonder -- comparisons with Richter and Kempff did not seem unreasonable -- but it was not as utterly beyond comprehension as this disc. True, Angelich's technique is as commanding and his tone is as variegated as before -- but Brahms' late piano music demands more of a pianist: it demands a depth of soul as well as a breadth of experience that a young performer could hardly be expected to possess. And yet, irrefutably, Angelich possesses that depth and breadth. The strength, tenderness, and especially the insatiable longing for all one's ever loved and lost is present in his performances, turning into sound the mysteries of Brahms' sorrow. It's true that Angelich does stretch tempos at times -- the Andante non troppo e con molto espressione from his Opus 117 Intermezzi is much slower than any andante conceivably could be -- but because of the compelling intensity of his interpretations, this only heightens the overall tension. Anyone who loves great Brahms' piano playing or just great piano playing should hear these performances. Virgin Classics' sound is rich, warm, and fine grained.© TiVo
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Brahms: Intermezzi, Op. 117 & Klavierstücke, Op. 118 & 119

Paul Badura-Skoda

Classical - Released January 1, 1987 | naïve classique

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Brahms: Die Späten Klavierstücke - The Late Piano Pieces (op. 116-119)

Anna Gourari

Solo Piano - Released April 17, 2009 | Berlin Classics

Ultra-romantic and extra moody, Anna Gourari's 2009 recording of Brahms' late piano works may divide listeners. The technically adept Gourari pulls off the headiest hemiolas and the most strenuous two-fisted sonorities with panache, and her interpretive personality is never in doubt. Tempos are flexible, chords are often rolled, lines are warmly sculpted, and colors are richly blended. But what she wants to do with the music may not be what everyone wants to hear in the music. For some, Gourari may be too free in her interpretations, making Brahms sound less like a late Romantic German composer and more like an unlikely combination of French impressionism via Debussy and Russian sensuality via Rachmaninov. This may be fine with listeners looking for a new way to hear old music, and it may be more than fine with listeners who wish Brahms were more overtly emotional. But for listeners who like their Brahms powerfully expressive but still heroically restrained, Gourari's interpretations may not do the trick. Berlin Classics' digital sound is clear, but perhaps a bit too close.© TiVo
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Brahms: Intermezzo

Murray Perahia

Classical - Released October 9, 2000 | Sony Classical

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Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op.56 & 4 Piano Pieces

Rudolf Serkin

Classical - Released January 1, 1980 | Sony Classical

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Brahms: 4 Klavierstücke, Op. 119: No. 1, Intermezzo in B Minor

Jeremy Denk

Classical - Released January 8, 2019 | Nonesuch

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Brahms, Chopin

Jakub Kuszlik

Classical - Released February 4, 2022 | Polskie Radio

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Jakub Kuszelki is a polish pianist, Prize winner of the 18th International Piano Competition Frederic Chopin in 2021. On November 11, 2017, for the first time on the DAB Plus digital platform and on the Internet, the sounds of Fryderyk Chopin's music broadcast by Polish Radio Chopin were heard. Every year, on the eve of the November anniversary of this eighth public radio antenna, birthday concerts are organized. On November 10, 2021, at the Concert Studio of Witold Lutosławski, Jakub Kuszelik, winner of the fourth prize and the Polish Radio Special Prize for the best performance of mazurkas, in the Chopin Competition that ended only three weeks earlier, performed in the next anniversary concert. Extensive fragments of the recording of this November concert fill the currently presented debut solo album of Jakub Kuszlik. Before this just 25-year-old, talented pianist, a graduate of the Academy of Music. Feliks Nowowiejski in Bydgoszcz, in the class of prof. Katarzyna Popowa-Zydroń, the doors of many concert halls, not only in Poland, are just opening. The concert's repertoire included compositions by Fryderyk Chopin, including, of course, a series of awarded mazurkas. However, the program was extended to include compositions by Johannes Brahms. Their inclusion in the recital program is only at first glance not obvious in the context of Chopin's oeuvre. © Polskie Radio
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Brahms: Piano Works, Opp. 24, 79, 118 & 119 (Original Edition)

Murray Perahia

Classical - Released November 12, 2010 | Sony Classical

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Lalo: Concertante Works for Violin, Cello & Piano

Jean-Jacques Kantorow

Classical - Released March 18, 2016 | Alpha Classics

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Brahms: Piano Pieces, Opp.117, 118, 119

Radu Lupu

Classical - Released January 1, 1987 | Decca Music Group Ltd.

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Gabriel Fauré : Piano Works

Michel Dalberto

Classical - Released April 14, 2017 | Aparté

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Disciple of Vlado Perlemuter and Jean Hubeau, Michel Dalberto has stood out as a master and ardent defender of French music in the course of a forty-year career. His signature for the Aparté label of a series of recordings devoted to Debussy, Fauré, Ravel, and Franck marks his awaited return to discs. Each episode will be recorded live and accompanied by a video. This second release, recorded on a Bechstein piano at the Conservatoire d’Art Dramatique-Paris on 7 January 2017, honours Gabriel Fauré.
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Brahms: 10 Intermezzi for Piano - Gould Remastered

Glenn Gould

Classical - Released January 1, 1961 | Sony Classical

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Schumann & Brahms

Hélène Grimaud

Classical - Released September 15, 2023 | Warner Classics

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Brahms : Klavierstücke Op.76, Fantaisies Op.116...

Anna Vinnitskaya

Solo Piano - Released February 19, 2016 | Alpha Classics

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Fauré: Intégrale de l'œuvre pour piano, Vol. 4

Jean-Claude Pennetier

Classical - Released May 25, 2018 | Mirare

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