Brahms - Piano Sonata no.3, Klavierstucke op.119, etc. | Decca 4832154

Brahms - Piano Sonata no.3, Klavierstucke op.119, etc.

Label: Decca

Cat No: 4832154

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Instrumental

Release Date: 25th August 2017

Contents

Works

Brahms, Johannes

Fantasias (7), op.116
» no.1 Capriccio in D minor
» no.4 Intermezzo in E major
Intermezzi (3), op.117
» no.2 in B flat minor
Klavierstucke (4), op.119
Klavierstucke (6), op.118
» no.3 Ballade in G minor
Klavierstucke (8), op.76
» no.3 Intermezzo in A flat major
» no.4 Intermezzo in B flat major
Piano Sonata no.3 in F minor, op.5
Waltzes (16), op.39 (solo piano)
» no.15 in A flat major

Artists

Nelson Freire (piano)

Works

Brahms, Johannes

Fantasias (7), op.116
» no.1 Capriccio in D minor
» no.4 Intermezzo in E major
Intermezzi (3), op.117
» no.2 in B flat minor
Klavierstucke (4), op.119
Klavierstucke (6), op.118
» no.3 Ballade in G minor
Klavierstucke (8), op.76
» no.3 Intermezzo in A flat major
» no.4 Intermezzo in B flat major
Piano Sonata no.3 in F minor, op.5
Waltzes (16), op.39 (solo piano)
» no.15 in A flat major

Artists

Nelson Freire (piano)

About

Nelson Freire made his recording debut with the Brahms F minor Sonata in 1967. Now, half a century later, he returns to this monumental work.

The perfect repertoire at the perfect moment in his career: still in his prime at 72, Nelson Freire invests Brahms’s music with unrivalled colour and imagination.

This recital presents a portrait of Brahms across his entire oeuvre for solo piano, culminating in a selection of the celebrated late intermezzi.

This is Freire’s first Brahms recording since the 2007 Gramophone Record of the Year concerto set with Riccardo Chailly: still the reference recording.

“[Nelson Freire] clearly stands among the greatest pianists of our time or any other” - The New York Times

Reviews

Freire’s sound has always been a thing of wonder: even at full volume and full tilt there’s no hint of percussiveness in his tone – just sample the development of the first movement [Sonata no.3]; or the way the melody of the intermezzo-like slow movement is plucked almost insouciantly out of the texture... Highlights are many – the regret-filled duet of the middle section of Op 118 No 2 or the way he brings to such a quiet close the Ballade, Op 118 No 3. ... Go and buy it, and set it on your shelves next to Volodos.  Harriet Smith
Gramophone Awards 2017

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