Brahms - Works for Solo Piano Vol.5
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Label: BIS
Cat No: BIS2147
Format: Hybrid SACD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 27th October 2017
Contents
Works
Fantasias (7), op.116Piano Sonata no.1 in C major, op.1
Variations on a theme by Schumann in F sharp minor, op.9
Artists
Jonathan Plowright (piano)Works
Fantasias (7), op.116Piano Sonata no.1 in C major, op.1
Variations on a theme by Schumann in F sharp minor, op.9
Artists
Jonathan Plowright (piano)About
Very soon after the meeting, Schumann’s mental health began to decline, to the point of him attempting suicide in February 1854. Composed in the same year, Brahms’s Op.9 Schumann Variations were closely connected with these events and with Robert and Clara. Brahms chose a theme – from Schumann’s collection Bunte Blätter –which Clara herself had composed a set of variations on, and dedicated it to her. Schumann died, hospitalized, in 1856, but Clara and Brahms remained intimate friends and some forty years later, Clara was one of the first persons to whom Brahms showed the newly composed set of Fantasies, Op.116: ‘wonderfully original’ was her reaction, and later performers and listeners have agreed with her.
Jonathan Plowright has been described as ‘a true and moving poet of the keyboard’ by Gramophone and his Brahms cycle has received critical acclaim, with instalments being singled out in Gramophone (Editor’s Choice), BBC Music Magazine (Instrumental Choice of the Month) and on ClassicsToday.com (‘10/10’).
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