Brahms the Progressive: Piano Works by Brahms, Webern & Berg
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Label: Odradek Records
Cat No: ODRCD330
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 23rd March 2018
Contents
Works
Piano Sonata, op.1Klavierstucke (4), op.119
Klavierstucke (6), op.118
Children's Piece for Piano 'Kinderstuck'
Movement for piano
Piano Piece, op.posth
Variations for piano, op.27
Artists
Pina Napolitano (piano)About
This provides the essence of this album: traversing time in two directions, looking at Brahms from the future of the modern Viennese, and vice versa, looking at the Second Viennese School from the past of Brahmsian romanticism.
We hear on this album Berg’s Op.1 Sonata, in which there is an intricate network of motivic relations, rhythmic flexibility and metrical ambiguity, the music unfolding with the sort of fluidity and connectedness which are hallmarks of Brahms’s style. Webern’s Satz (1906) was written not long after he had begun to take lessons with Schoenberg, but the piece shows clearly how Webern’s music grew out of the 19th century. Written in 1924, Webern’s Kinderstück is his earliest complete piece using 12-note serialism, but it is with his Variations, op.27 (1936) that we hear a more typically sophisticated serial technique from Webern.
If Webern’s Op.27 looks back to Brahms in its sense of motivic connectedness, it is perhaps possible to see the opening Intermezzo of Brahms’s Op.119 looking forward to Webern. Both Opp. 118 and 119 were written in 1893 and are among Brahms’s final works. Brahms gives the sets the title of Klavierstücke - which Schoenberg would use later for his own works for solo piano.
Italian pianist Pina Napolitano made a splash with her debut CD in 2012: Norman Lebrecht featured her recording of Arnold Schoenberg’s complete piano works as his CD of the Week, shortlisting it for his Sinfini Music Album of the Year; Guy Rickards in International Piano Magazine called the CD “outstanding”, citing the “tensile strength to her playing that is distinctly hers”, and Calum MacDonald in BBC Music Magazine gave it five stars for its “rare penetration, understanding, grace and elegance”.
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