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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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Brahms & Bruckner: Motets

Anton Bruckner

Classical - Released October 30, 2015 | Signum Records

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Maybe the combination of Brahms and Bruckner with the British choir Tenebrae sounds a little strange: the choir has specialized in Renaissance music and generally in music built on that sound ideal. Maybe the combination of the abstract, devout, and technically demanding Bruckner with the friendly and humanist Brahms sounds a little strange, too. But it all works out very nicely. In the 19th century, when choral music was a bigger part of everyday musical life than it is now, this would have been a program any good municipal choir would have loved to present. And Tenebrae bulks up its style a bit. They hit Bruckner's punishing high notes with the requisite perfect chill, and you can sample one of the large motets at the beginning, such as Ecce sacerdos (track three), for the full range of this choir's remarkable technical control under director Nigel Short. In Brahms pieces like the familiar "How lovely are thy dwellings" from the German Requiem, Op. 45 (track 11), the choir might even be called unusually weighty. Signum hits the ball out of the park sonically with engineering work at London's Temple Church, and the end result is a satisfying and unusual choral disc. A substantial donation from each copy of this album sold goes to Macmillan Cancer Support.© TiVo
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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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Brahms: Piano Sonata No. 3 Op. 5 & Handel Variations

Jonathan Fournel

Classical - Released October 22, 2021 | Alpha Classics

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The pianist Jonathan Fournel, recent prizewinner of the prestigious 2021 Queen Elisabeth Competition (where he won not only the Queen Elisabeth Grand Prix, but also the Queen Mathilde Prize, the Musiq3 Audience Prize and the Canvas-Klara Award) has joined the Alpha label for several recordings, starting with a Brahms programme recorded in the superb acoustic of the music room at La Chaux-de-Fonds just before the Competition: "Over the years, for me Brahms has become a figure I admire so tremendously, a composer I can never tire of. It was fairly obvious to me that I had to make my first recording with these two works that I love so much". The 28-year-old French pianist has been gathering many plaudits for his concerts and shows all the signs of developing a great career and a highly individual artistic path. © Alpha Classics
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 - Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Haydn

Maxim Emelyanychev

Symphonic Music - Released October 19, 2018 | Aparté

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Brahms: Vier Ernste Gesänge, Op. 121

Marie-Claude Chappuis

Classical - Released May 26, 2023 | Prospero Classical

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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: La belle Maguelone

Stéphane Degout

Classical - Released October 6, 2023 | B Records

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Brahms: Complete Songs, Vol. 1

Christoph Prégardien

Vocal Music (Secular and Sacred) - Released December 3, 2021 | Naxos

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At the age of sixty-five, one might have feared for the voice of tenor Christoph Prégardien when he undertook to record all of Johannes Brahms's Lieder. Listening to this first volume, recorded in 2020, these fears have been allayed by a voice that has remained intact and a flawless technique.Christoph Prégardien's programme here spans Brahms' entire life, from the Vier Gesänge, Op. 43 from 1857 to the Fünf Lieder, Op. 105 of 1888. Brahms's popularity as a symphonist and chamber musician, not to mention his piano works, has somewhat overshadowed the three hundred and eighty Lieder, for one, two or four voices, in his catalogue. It is the melodic line that Brahms favours in this intimate art: here, its form is often symmetrical and regular, and always of great beauty.These qualities are particularly evident in Christoph Prégardien's performance, supported by Ulrich Eisenlohr's dreamy piano, with which he converses in perfect harmony. The text is enhanced with great romantic intensity. This is evident from the start of the recording with the famous Mainacht ('May Night'), the splendid Über die Heide ('On the Heath') and the joyous Versunken ('Engulfed') based on a famous poem by Goethe. In fact, all twenty-four Lieder of the four cycles presented here deserve mention, both for the music and for their inspired performance. © François Hudry/Qobuz
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Brahms: 10 Intermezzi for Piano - Gould Remastered

Glenn Gould

Classical - Released January 1, 1961 | Sony Classical

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Brahms: Complete Liebeslieder Walzer, Op. 52 & 65, Hungarian Dances

Rias Kammerchor

Choral Music (Choirs) - Released November 4, 2022 | harmonia mundi

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In these love songs in waltz style for chorus or solo voices accompanied by piano four hands, Brahms freely indulged his taste for Viennese folk music. The RIAS-Kammerchor instils a wonderful inner life in these musical landscapes, sometimes cheerful, sometimes melancholy, punctuated here by a selection from the Hungarian Dances – also eminently popular in their inspiration. © harmonia mundi
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Schumann & Brahms

Hélène Grimaud

Classical - Released September 15, 2023 | Warner Classics

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Brahms

Anna Tsybuleva

Concertos - Released May 28, 2021 | Signum Records

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Brahms: Vier ernste Gesänge

Christoph Eschenbach

Art Songs, Mélodies & Lieder - Released May 13, 2016 | harmonia mundi

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Brahms, Haydn, Enesco

Antal Doráti

Symphonic Music - Released January 1, 1993 | Decca Music Group Ltd.

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Mendelssohn: Die erste Walpurgisnacht - Brahms: Nänie - Schumann: Der Königssohn

Simone Schroder

Classical - Released January 24, 2011 | Farao Classics

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Brahms Orchestral & Vocal Works

Orquesta y Coro de la Comunidad de Madrid

Classical - Released October 20, 2023 | IBS Classical

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Con Amore

Kyung Wha Chung

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

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Brahms: The Hungarian Connection

Andreas Ottensamer

Classical - Released February 18, 2015 | Mercury KX

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Andreas Ottensamer, principal clarinetist of the Berlin Philharmonic, has released several innovatively programmed albums without resorting to common crossover formulas. Brahms: The Hungarian Connection is another. The title is perhaps a bit too strong in that the last part of the program does not consist of music by Brahms and, in fact, has no direct connection to Brahms. But as a recital juxtaposing Hungarian folk sounds with their ramifications in the concert repertoire, the program works well. Some may not have thought of the Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op. 115, as a Hungarian piece, but listen again to the slow movement passage where the string quartet conjures up a cimbalom. The extremely gentle performance of the quintet is worth the price of admission in itself; for a reading by an all-star group as opposed to an established ensemble, it breathes unusually well. The quartet's cellist, Stephan Koncz, arranged the rest of the music for clarinet and string quartet, and he certainly doesn't do anything an average Viennese musician might not have attempted during Brahms' lifetime. From two lightly Hungarian waltzes (one from the Op. 39 set for piano four-hands and one from the Liebeslieder Waltzes, Op. 52), listeners move into more explicitly Hungarian material, first arranged by Brahms and then by other composers. It's an unorthodox recital structure, but it's effective, leading both to some little-known and fun pieces (the Two Movements of Hungarian composer Leó Weiner) and then to an infectious Transylvanian dance medley finale. Ottensamer's tone modulates nicely from ultra-smooth in the Brahms to peppy in the more Hungarian pieces. Recommended for Brahmsians and clarinet lovers alike.© TiVo