Brahms: Works for Solo Piano Volume 4

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Douglas achieves a magnificently orchestral textures. This is big, broad-boned playing of a high order: powerful but never noisy; grand but never grandiose; texturally lucid and tonally rich. — BBC Music Magazine, August 2015, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 5th May 2015
Catalogue No: CHAN10857
Label: Chandos
Series: Barry Douglas Brahms Solo Piano Music
Length: 82 minutes

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Brahms: Piano Sonata No. 1 in C major, Op. 1

Work length28:37

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Barry Douglas
Recorded: 15-16 December 2014
Recording Venue: West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge

I. Allegro - Poco ritenuto

Track length10:59

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II. Andante - Adagio

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III. Scherzo. Allegro molto e con fuoco

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IV. Finale. Allegro con fuoco

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Brahms: 3 Intermezzi, Op. 117: No. 3 in C-Sharp Minor

Work length5:20

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Barry Douglas
Recorded: 15-16 December 2014
Recording Venue: West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge

Brahms: 4 Klavierstücke, Op. 119: No. 2, Intermezzo in E Minor

Work length4:36

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Barry Douglas
Recorded: 15-16 December 2014
Recording Venue: West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge

Brahms: 16 Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 9

Work length16:12

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Barry Douglas
Recorded: 15-16 December 2014
Recording Venue: West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge

Theme. Ziemlich langsam

Track length1:15

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Variation I

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Variation II. Poco più moto

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Variation III. Tempo di tema

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Variation IV. Poco più moto

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Variation V. Allegro capriccioso

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Variation VI. Allegro

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Variation VII. Andante

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Variation VIII. Andante (non troppo lento)

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Variation IX. Schnell

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Variation X. Poco Adagio

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Variation XI. Un poco più animato

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Variation XII. Allegretto, poco scherzando - Presto

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Variation XIII. Non troppo Presto

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Variation XIV. Andante

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Variation XV. Poco Adagio

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Variation XVI.

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Excerpt, Brahms: Klavierstücke (8), Op. 76

Work length10:16

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Barry Douglas
Recorded: 15-16 December 2014
Recording Venue: West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge

No. 1, Capriccio in F-Sharp Minor

Track length3:26

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No. 2, Capriccio in B Minor

Track length3:21

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No. 6, Intermezzo in A Major

Track length3:29

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Brahms: 4 Ballades, Op. 10: No. 1 in D Minor, "Edward"

Work length4:43

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Barry Douglas
Recorded: 15-16 December 2014
Recording Venue: West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge

Brahms: 28 Variations on a Theme by Niccolò Paganini, Book I, Op. 35

Work length12:54

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Barry Douglas
Recorded: 15-16 December 2014
Recording Venue: West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge

Theme. Non troppo presto

Track length0:27

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Variation I

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Variation II

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Variation III

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Variation IV

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Variation V

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Variation VI

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Variation VII

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Variation VIII

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Variation IX

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Variation X

Track length1:12

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Variation XI. Andante

Track length1:21

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Variation XII

Track length0:57

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Variation XIII

Track length0:35

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Variation XIV. Allegro

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Variation XIV. Presto, ma non troppo

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This is Volume 4 in Barry Douglas’s monumental project to record the complete works for solo piano by Johannes Brahms. Each volume has been released to critical acclaim, the first one, in 2012, being seen by BBC Music as ‘a triumph of Brahmsian thought, with playing that gets right to the heart of the composer’.

Once again, the album is presented as a stand-alone recital, prominently featuring the C major Sonata, which was Brahms’s first published work. The influence on Brahms of his early romantic predecessors Beethoven and Schubert is obvious here, not only in the virtuoso demands on the performer but also in the opening, which recalls both Beethoven’s ‘Hammerklavier’ Sonata, Op. 106 and Schubert’s ‘Wanderer’ Fantasy.

Two other works are much more than simple sets of variations. The Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann highlight the close relationship of Brahms with Schumann and his wife, Clara, to whom the work is dedicated ‘with intimate reverence’, and demonstrate Brahms’s skill at ‘thematic actualisation’, whereby latent potentialities of a theme are gradually revealed throughout the variation process. In the Variations on a Theme by Niccolò Paganini – the first of two books originally published in 1866 as ‘Keyboard Studies’ – each variation explores a distinct figural pattern or keyboard technique.

The recording also features short keyboard character pieces, abundant in the second half of the nineteenth century and especially in Brahms’s later years.

Reviews

August 2015

Douglas achieves a magnificently orchestral textures. This is big, broad-boned playing of a high order: powerful but never noisy; grand but never grandiose; texturally lucid and tonally rich.

May 2015

Douglas comes fully alive throughout the C major Sonata. His proportioned rubatos in the first movement's second theme and broodingly sustained Andante imbue the unwieldy textures with colour and variety.

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