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

Jean-Claude Pennetier

Classical - Released May 25, 2018 | Mirare

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Chopin, Schubert & Prokofiev

Yulianna Avdeeva

Classical - Released September 8, 2014 | Mirare

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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 : Intermezzi, Rhapsodies

François Chaplin

Classical - Released June 14, 2019 | Aparté

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Following a previous recording devoted to Mozart, François Chaplin has chosen Brahms' latest opus for solo piano: Rhapsodies Op. 79 and the intermezzi from Klavierstücke Op. 117 and Op. 118. The Rhapsodies, moving and powerful scores, express Brahms' sober melancholy. Far from his symphonic works, the interludes of Opus 117 and Opus 118, true miniatures, reveal the inner imagination of the composer. Brahms talks directly to the heart of the listener with his mature and sober poetry. Within these Klavierstücke, the interlude is a humble but generous genre where the musician gathers freely the fruits of his most intimate inspiration. These « lullabies of pain », as he called them, are composed during summer in the Austrian countryside, dear to this sturdy northern German. The emotion that emerges from it is all the more intense as it measures his artistic evolution. On this journey, François Chaplin brings out a soft poetry from a contained lyricism. © Aparté
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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: Piano Works, Opp. 24, 79, 118 & 119 (Original Edition)

Murray Perahia

Classical - Released November 12, 2010 | Sony Classical

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Fauré: Intégrale de l’oeuvre pour piano, Vol 3

Jean-Claude Pennetier

Solo Piano - Released October 1, 2015 | Mirare

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Chopin: 26 Préludes - Scriabine: Sonate Op. 19 No. 2

Beatrice Rana

Classical - Released September 2, 2012 | ATMA Classique

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Frederic Chopin : Valses (Intégrale)

Alexandre Tharaud

Classical - Released April 21, 2006 | harmonia mundi

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Alexander Scriabin : Intégrale des Etudes pour piano

Andrei Korobeinikov

Solo Piano - Released October 6, 2014 | Mirare

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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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Hélène de Mongeroult, portrait d'une compositrice visionnaire

Marcia Hadjimarkos

Classical - Released September 20, 2023 | iMD-Seulétoile

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Chopin : De l’enfance à la plénitude

Anne Queffélec

Classical - Released January 21, 2010 | Mirare

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Brahms: Liebeslieder, Walzer & Dix Danses Hongroises pour piano à quatre mains

Brigitte Engerer

Classical - Released September 6, 2011 | Mirare

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Beethoven Symphonies

Emmanuel Krivine

Symphonic Music - Released March 21, 2011 | naïve

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Chopin chez Pleyel

Alain Planès

Classical - Released October 22, 2009 | harmonia mundi

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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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Field : Nocturnes

Florent Albrecht

Solo Piano - Released September 17, 2021 | HORTUS

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“Unprecedented” is the right word to sum up this album entirely devoted to John Field's Nocturnes. Unprecedented because it is the first recording by Florent Albrecht, an extra-terrestrial of the pianoforte, who trained late in life after a first career in the luxury goods industry. After graduating from the Conservatoire of Geneva in 2018 and laureate of the Royaumont Foundation the same year, the French pianist has already performed at the Paris Opera and the Juilliard School, among others. An unprecedented album, as it features the world premiere of Nocturne in B flat major, posthumous Op.142, a score exhumed from the shelves of the St Petersburg library by Florent Albrecht. For the occasion, Qobuz presents this original and enchanting album exclusively for five weeks.The nocturne, a form made popular by Chopin, emerged at a time in the history of music when technical improvements in keyboard instruments enabled them to rival the expressiveness of the human voice. We do not know if it is John Field's writing talent or Florent Albrecht's fluid and airy playing—it is probably a subtle mixture of the two—but we come away from listening being convinced that the piano is the sole instrument capable of expressing the emotions of the romantic soul. The musician opts for a phrasing that is both clear and supple, perfectly suited to his instrument (a Carlo Meglio from 1826), whose rounded and slightly trembling timbre, sometimes close to a cimbalom, acts like a soothing balm for the soul. A truly calming interlude. © Pierre Lamy/Qobuz
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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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