Brahms - Viennese Sentiment & Hungarian Passion: Works for Piano Four Hands
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Label: Etcetera
Cat No: KTC1698
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 7th May 2021
Contents
Works
Hungarian Dances (21), WoO1 (piano duet)Variations on a theme by Schumann for 4 hands, op.23
Waltzes (16), op.39
Artists
Jan Vermeulen (piano)Veerle Peeters (piano)
Works
Hungarian Dances (21), WoO1 (piano duet)Variations on a theme by Schumann for 4 hands, op.23
Waltzes (16), op.39
Artists
Jan Vermeulen (piano)Veerle Peeters (piano)
About
It is clear that Brahms, like Schubert and Chopin, took lighter genres such as the waltz very seriously. This can be seen in the wealth of melody, the variation of rhythm and the lush harmonies of the Waltzes, op.39. These were composed in 1865, three years after he had settled in Vienna.
It is astonishing to see how a Northern German could feel so at home in every genre that he attempted; he is completely at ease with the gypsy idiom and seems also to be Viennese-born and bred.
Brahms raises the folk character of Georg Friedrich Daumer’s poems to an ultimate refinement in his Liebesliederwalzer, op.52. The work was initially intended for vocal quartet (the vocal parts are marked ad libitum in the original edition) and piano four hands; the marking ad libitum is apposite, given that the work is just as effective without the vocal parts. It is, however, well worth taking a look at Daumer’s poems just to see and hear how ingeniously Brahms handled them.
Given that such an album as this requires variety and contrast, we have not only alternated Hungarian dances with waltzes but also have placed Brahms’ profound Variationen uber ein Thema von Robert Schumann, op.23, at the centre of these otherwise light-footed works.
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