Brahms: Intermezzi, Op. 117

This page lists all recordings of Intermezzi, Op. 117, by Johannes Brahms (1833-97) on CD & DVD. Generally, more recent CDs and DVDs are listed first, but with priority given to items that are in stock.

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Wilhelm Backhaus - The Great Recitals

Wilhelm Backhaus - The Great Recitals


Bach, J S:

English Suite No. 6 in D minor, BWV811

French Suite No. 5 in G major, BWV816

Prelude & Fugue Book 1 No. 15 in G major, BWV860

Prelude & Fugue Book 2 No. 15 in G major, BWV884

Brahms:

Klavierstücke (6), Op. 118

Capriccio in F sharp minor from 8 Pieces, Op. 76

Intermezzi, Op. 116

Intermezzi, Op. 117

Intermezzi, Op. 119


Wilhelm Backhaus (piano)

Recordings made 1953- 1956

Andromeda - ANDRCD5043

(CD - 2 discs)

$11.99

In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day.

Brahms - Piano Music

Brahms - Piano Music


Brahms:

Rhapsodies, Op. 79

Intermezzi, Op. 117

Klavierstücke (6), Op. 118

Klavierstücke (4), Op. 119


Radu Lupu (piano)

Decca - 4175992

(CD)

$18.49

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Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15, etc.

Brahms:

Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15

Intermezzi, Op. 117


Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Simon Rattle

EMI - 5565832

(CD)

$17.49

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Brahms - Piano Concerto No. 2

Brahms - Piano Concerto No. 2


Albéniz:

El puerto (from Iberia, book 1)

Achúcarro at the Prado

Brahms:

Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 83

Recorded live at Jerwood Hall, St Luke’s, London, May 2009.

London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis

Intermezzi, Op. 117

Achúcarro at the Prado

Chopin:

Prelude Op. 28 No. 15 in D flat major ‘Raindrop'

Achúcarro at the Prado

Prelude Op. 28 No. 16 in B flat minor

Achúcarro at the Prado

Scriabin:

Prelude & Nocturne, Op. 9

Achúcarro at the Prado


Joaquín Achúcarro (piano)

This recording commemorates the 50th anniversary of Joaquín Achúcarro’s debut with the London Symphony Orchestra after winning the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic International Competition in 1959. Recorded at Jerwood Hall, St Luke’s, London, with Britain’s eminent conductor Colin Davis at the helm, Achúcarro delivers a consummate performance that brilliantly expresses his delicate and passionate style. Extra features include a substantial documentary about Achúcarro’s career and performances of solo piano pieces by Brahms, Chopin, Scriabin and Albéniz filmed in the beautiful setting of the Prado museum, Madrid.

“Achúcarro’s approach is unorthodox in today’s stick-to-theletter-of-the-score, mechanically perfect musical world. His rubati seem excessive to some; to others, like a throwback to a Golden Age. For all of his reverence for the great composers whose music he plays, he maintains a healthy sense of their humanity as well. “Our duty is first of all to understand what composer does and wants, and then to try to deliver it the best we can, but also to serve the music,” he says. “And maybe sometimes the composer is wrong.” He adds, “People say you must follow the text. But if you follow the text, perhaps the music is not totally served.” … And he views what he does as a performer as an act of creation in its own right.” The Washington Post

Extra features:

Joaquín Achúcarro: 50 years on

Documentary including interviews with Plácido Domingo, Simon Rattle and Zubin Mehta.

Running time 131 mins

Region code All regions

Picture format 16:9

Anamorphic Sound format 2.0 PCM & 5.1 DTS

Menu language EN

Subtitles EN/FR/DE/ES/IT

Released or re-released in last 6 months

DVD Video

Region: 0

Format: NTSC

Opus Arte - OA1022D

(DVD Video)

$27.49

Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days.

Brahms - Piano Concerto No. 2

Brahms - Piano Concerto No. 2


Albéniz:

El puerto (from Iberia, book 1)

Achúcarro at the Prado

Brahms:

Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 83

Recorded live at Jerwood Hall, St Luke’s, London, May 2009.

London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis

Intermezzi, Op. 117

Achúcarro at the Prado

Chopin:

Prelude Op. 28 No. 15 in D flat major ‘Raindrop'

Achúcarro at the Prado

Prelude Op. 28 No. 16 in B flat minor

Achúcarro at the Prado

Scriabin:

Prelude & Nocturne, Op. 9


Joaquín Achúcarro (piano)

This recording commemorates the 50th anniversary of Joaquín Achúcarro’s debut with the London Symphony Orchestra after winning the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic International Competition in 1959. Recorded at Jerwood Hall, St Luke’s, London, with Britain’s eminent conductor Colin Davis at the helm, Achúcarro delivers a consummate performance that brilliantly expresses his delicate and passionate style. Extra features include a substantial documentary about Achúcarro’s career and performances of solo piano pieces by Brahms, Chopin, Scriabin and Albéniz filmed in the beautiful setting of the Prado museum, Madrid.

“Achúcarro’s approach is unorthodox in today’s stick-to-theletter-of-the-score, mechanically perfect musical world. His rubati seem excessive to some; to others, like a throwback to a Golden Age. For all of his reverence for the great composers whose music he plays, he maintains a healthy sense of their humanity as well. “Our duty is first of all to understand what composer does and wants, and then to try to deliver it the best we can, but also to serve the music,” he says. “And maybe sometimes the composer is wrong.” He adds, “People say you must follow the text. But if you follow the text, perhaps the music is not totally served.” … And he views what he does as a performer as an act of creation in its own right.” The Washington Post

Extra features:

Joaquín Achúcarro: 50 years on

Documentary including interviews with Plácido Domingo, Simon Rattle and Zubin Mehta.

Running time 131 mins

Region code All regions

Video codec: AVC/MPEG-4

Disc size: BD50

Picture format 1080i High Definition / 16:9

Sound format 2.0 & 5.1 PCM

Menu language EN

Subtitles EN/FR/DE/ES/IT

Released or re-released in last 6 months

Blu-ray Disc

Region: all

Opus Arte - OABD7054 D

(Blu-ray)

$34.49

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Mihaela Ursuleasa plays Beethoven, Brahms, Ravel & Ginastera

Mihaela Ursuleasa plays Beethoven, Brahms, Ravel & Ginastera


Beethoven:

32 Variations on an Original Theme in C minor, WoO 80

Brahms:

Intermezzi, Op. 117

Ginastera:

Piano Sonata No. 1, Op. 22

Ravel:

Gaspard de la Nuit


Mihaela Ursuleasa (piano)

On her debut album, Mihaela Ursuleasa takes the listener with her on a journey. It is a journey that leads from the past into the present and at the same time, back to her Romanian roots. Each stage of the journey is an adventure in its own right, revealing another brilliant facet of the artist.

Released or re-released in last 6 months

Berlin Classics - 0016542BC

(CD)

$18.99

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Brahms - Late Piano Works

Brahms - Late Piano Works


Brahms:

Fantasies (7 piano pieces), Op. 116

Intermezzi, Op. 117

Klavierstücke (6), Op. 118

Klavierstücke (4), Op. 119


Hakon Austbo (piano)

Håkon Austbø was born in Norway, and now resides on Holland.

In 1971 he won the prestigious Olivier Messiaen prize. His recording of Scriabin sonatas was praised by the Gramophone as ‘Scriabin playing that can stand comparison with the finest on record’.

Brahms was a formidable pianist, and his early works were written to show of his tremendous technique. The piano sonatas Opp. 1–3 typify the highly virtuosic muscular style that suited his performing style. Brahms never revisited the piano sonata form after these early works, and his output for solo piano falls distinctly in top three groups. The early impetuous works, then from 1854-73 the more technical works, and, finally the late works from the 1890s included on this CD. These works are contemplative and autumnal, though the drama and tensions of the earlier works are never far away. The Op.116 set is remarkable in that its seven linked numbers form a single unity. It is in fact a seven movement sonata. Op.117 contains probably some of the most beautiful music Brahms’s composed. The 3 Intermezzi are reflective, deeply personal works. Op.118 contains severe technical demands for the performer, as well as music of incredible passion and sadness. Op.119 contains a Rhapsody, which is widely regarded as a final tribute to his pianist friend Clara Schumann. Brahms was madly in love with her, but although they were great friends, his love went unrequited.

Released or re-released in last 6 months

Brilliant Classics - 93990

(CD)

$7.99

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Brahms - The Late Piano Pieces

Brahms - The Late Piano Pieces


Brahms:

Fantasies (7 piano pieces), Op. 116

Intermezzi, Op. 117

Klavierstücke (6), Op. 118

Klavierstücke (4), Op. 119


Anna Gourari (piano)

Gourari plays the late piano pieces of Brahms, including Fantasies and the Intermezzi. This is the Russian pianist’s debut on the Berlin Classics label. She has been praised for her “almost mystical piano playing”.

Berlin Classics - 0016472BC

(CD)

$17.49

Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days.

Brahms - Piano Music

Brahms - Piano Music


Brahms:

Piano Sonata No. 3 in F minor, Op. 5

Rhapsodies, Op. 79

Intermezzi, Op. 117


Thomas Beijer (piano)

New recording: one of a series of releases from Brilliant Classics featuring outstanding young artists who have won the principal prizes at the Young Pianist Foundation’s National Piano Competition.

Thomas Beijer, born in 1988, started playing and studying the piano at the age of 8. A pupil of Jan Wijn, he won the prestigious Dutch Young Pianist Foundation Prize in 2007. He performs frequently both in the Netherlands and internationally.

Brahms’s output for solo piano spans his creative life, from the early Scherzo Op.4 of 1851, to the late Intermezzi Opp. 116–9. The Third Sonata Op.5, the central work on this disc, was the last to be written for solo piano – all his other sonatas being for piano with violin, cello, clarinet/viola. It is a heroic, large-scale piece, presenting considerable technical demands for the pianist. Cast in five movements, the fourth is an intermezzo, a form that Brahms became preoccupied with later in his career. The second movement is prefaced with lines from a poem by Sternau: ‘The twilight falls, the moonlight gleams, two hearts in loveunite, embraced in blissful rapture.’

Schumann described Brahms’s three sonatas for piano as ‘symphonies in disguise’, such is their size and temperament. The first of the two works in Op.79 was originally to be called ‘capriccio’, but an exchange with Brahms’s publisher Simrock settled the matter and ‘ Rhapsody’ became the term for both these thrilling works. They are marked ‘agitato’ and ‘passionato’ respectively.

Brilliant Classics - 93815

(CD)

$7.99

Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days.

Wilde plays Brahms

Wilde plays Brahms


Brahms:

Rhapsodies, Op. 79

Variations on an Original Theme in D major, Op. 21, No. 1

Intermezzi, Op. 117

Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24


David Wilde (piano)

"David Wilde's power and individuality make a separation between composer and performer, between creator and recreator unrealistic. He sees the simple grace and lyricism favoured by many pianists as an evasion of a deeper poetic truth, and if he gives us all of Brahms' exulting strength in the fugue from the 'Handel' Variations, he is no less responsive to darker nights of the soul in Op. 117. Always there is an open invitation to re-appraise Brahms' genius, not by a radical reinterpretation (the determinedly 'different' way of, say, Gould or Pogorelich), but by a probing and enquiring look beneath the music's surface life. David Wilde may be true to the composer, but he is a pianist to make you think again." Bryce Morrison

"One of the most intense and involving performances that I've heard" International Record Review on David Wilde on Delphian

“…the most impressive aspect of this disc is the beautiful sound Wilde coaxes from his superbly voiced Steinway (recorded by Beth Baxter in the Reith Concert Hall, University of Edinburgh) with its pliant treble and richly resonant bass.” Gramophone Magazine, July 2009

Delphian - DCD34040

(CD)

$18.49

Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days.

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