16 Walzer / Waltzes / Valses Op.39
-No.15- (00:00) No.1 - Tempo Giusto (01:45)
No.2 (02:47) No.3 (04:21) No.4 - Poco Sostenuto (05:16)
No.5 (06:51) No.6 - Vivace (08:26)
No.7 - Poco più Andante (09:30)
No.8 (11:51) No.9 (13:00) No.10 (14:24)
No.11 (14:59) No.12 (16:36)
No.13 (18:32) No.14 (19:15)
No.15 (20:47) No.16 (22:33)
6 Klavierstücke / Short Piano Pièces / Courtes Pièces pour Piano Op.118
No.1 - Intermezzo (23:51)
No.2 - Intermezzo (26:02)
No.3 Ballade (31:26)
No.4 Intermezzo (34:39)
No.5 Romanze (37:22)
No.6 Intermezzo (41:02)
Variationen und fuge über ein Thema Von Händel Op.24
Aria (45:17)
Variationen (46:05)
Fuga (1:07:01)
Piano : György Sebök
Recorded in 1963
New mastering in 2018 by AB for CMRR
Passionately interested in early music, he chose as the starting-point for a new set of variations an Air with Variations that Handel had published in 1733 in his ’Suites de pièces pour le clavecin’. Each of these Variations on a Theme by Handel is based on the initial air (45:17) subjects it to the most varied forms (46:05). The work ends in a blaze of glory with a monumental fugue (1:07:01). The great diversity of the pianistic writing an the constant contrats between the landscape involving the interplay of light and shade.
A set of sixteen waltzes (01:45) in which Brahms explored the multiple possibilities of triple-time metre. Like Schubert’s contributions to the medium, they constitute an astonishing kaleidoscope of emotions and types : noble, quick, tender, gypsyish and berceuse-like. After completing these op.39 waltzes Brahms wrote no more works for the piano for another fifteen years. only at the end of his life, in 1892, did he return of the instrument for his final compositions in the form of the Klavierstücke op.116-119. The six short works assembled as his op.118 (23:51) all reveal a rare degree of inwardness : the first is an emotionally charged introduction, the second a song without words, the third a ballade redolent in spirit of the op.79 Rhapsodies, the fourth a quick movement cast in the form of a canon, the fifth a romance and the sixth an intermezzo built around four conjunct notes that poignantly suggest the whole vanity of the world, whit a central section more vehement in tone. Denis Herlin
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