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Brahms: | Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24 Klavierstücke (4), Op. 119 Rhapsody in G minor, Op. 79 No. 2 | Chopin: | Scherzo No. 1 in B minor, Op. 20 Mazurka No. 10 in B flat major, Op. 17 No. 1 Mazurka No. 41 in C sharp minor, Op. 63 No. 3 Étude Op. 10 No. 3 in E major 'Tristesse' Previously unreleased Étude Op. 10 No. 4 in C sharp minor Previously unreleased Étude Op. 10 No. 5 in G flat major 'Black Key' Étude Op. 10 No. 10 in A flat major Previously unreleased Étude Op. 25 No. 11 in A minor 'Winter Wind' Previously unreleased Nocturne No. 4 in F major, Op. 15 No. 1 Waltz No. 14 in E minor, Op. post., KKIVa:15, B 56 Polonaise No. 6 in A flat major, Op. 53 'Héroïque' Previously unreleased | Debussy: | Clair de Lune | Granados: | Goyescas: Quejas ó La Maja y el Ruiseñor | Liszt: | Concert Paraphrase on Rigoletto, S.434 after Verdi's opera Widmung after Schumann: Liebeslied Hulanka (Drinking Song, after Chopin) | Mendelssohn: | Song without Words, Op. 38 No. 6 in A flat major 'Duetto' | Rachmaninov: | Variations on a theme of Corelli, Op. 42 First ever stereo release Prelude Op. 3 No. 2 in C sharp minor First ever stereo release Prelude Op. 23 No. 4 in D major First ever stereo release Prelude Op. 23 No. 5 in G minor First ever stereo release Prelude Op. 23 No. 6 in E flat major First ever stereo release Prelude Op. 32 No. 5 in G major First ever stereo release Prelude Op. 32 No. 12 in G sharp minor First ever stereo release | Schumann: | Arabesque in C major, Op. 18 |
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| |  | Brahms - Klavierstücke, Opp. 116 - 119
Nicholas Angelich (piano) “Steering a balanced course between imaginative vitality and warmth on one side and resigned melancholy on the other can be difficult, but Nicholas Angelich manages it with a kind of panache. He takes you to the brink of inconsolable sadness one moment, only to put a refreshingly spring in the step of a dance movement the next.” BBC Music Magazine, March 2007 ***** “Trenchant, focused Brahms from a formidable player . . . . Nicholas Angelich is an American pianist, trained in Paris, whose performances on this disc are of a wholly exceptional drama, sweep and impeccable craftsmanship. Few young pianists have so little truck with flighty, salon-ish alternatives to seriousness, and his Brahms is sufficiently authoritative to make one long to hear him in the piano concertos. . . . . Angelich’s is nonetheless among the finest recordings of Brahms’s formidable masterpiece.” Gramophone Magazine  CD Review
Critics Disc of the Year - December 2007 |
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Instrumental Choice - March 2007 |
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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. |
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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”. | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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German pianist Markus Groh returns to AVIE after his very successful Liszt’s solo piano music recital (a Gramophone Editor’s Choice). Recorded once more utilizing in the superior quality of the SACD technology, Groh visits Brahms’ challenging four late compositions for piano solo, Opp 116, 117, 118,119, ranging from the most dramatic to the daring and wondering emotions towards this great composer’s late years “There's much to admire in Groh's playing of these four sets...especially the beautifully judged palette of keyboard colours with which he shades these exquisite pieces. At times the quiet inwardness of the music escapes him - he's more at home, for instance, with the comparative extroversion of the Rhapsodie with which Op 119 ends, than with the delicately pearled intermezzo with which the set opens - and not everything in these pieces unfolds with the naturalness and expressive breadth that they ideally need. But Groh's playing has a musicality and honesty.” The Guardian, 20th June 2008 *** “Sometimes in the more fiery pieces, such as the capriccios of Op 116, Groh seems limited in his colour range. Yet it is the poetic touch that matters here, and he clearly possesses that in spades, as the opening piece of Op 117, the beautifully gauged dying cadence of Op 116, No 6, the rich colours of Op 118, No 2, and the direct, unhurried simplicity of the first piece of Op 119 all testify.” Sunday Times, 15th June 2008 *** “Late Brahms that demonstrates the pianist's supreme control and sensitivity.” Gramophone Magazine, September 2008 | | | Avie - AV2136 (SACD) Normally: $16.99 Special: $13.59 |
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