Artist: Barry Douglas
Title: Brahms: Works for Solo Piano, Vol. 5
Year Of Release: 2015
Label: Chandos Records
Genre: Classical, Piano
Quality: FLAC (tracks) [24Bit/96kHz]
Total Time: 01:07:08
Total Size: 0,99 GB (d.booklet)
Recorded: West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge, UK, 12 and 13 April 2015.
This album is the penultimate in what BBC Music has described as a 'triumph of Brahmsian thought', namely the survey by Barry Douglas of the composer's complete works for solo piano.
Three years after the release of Volume 1, the winner of the 1986 Tchaikovsky Competition is now performing this repertoire in the finest international venues, such as the Wigmore Hall in July 2015 and Concertgebouw in 2016, when the series will come to a highly anticipated climax with the final volume. Taking a big step further in his career with this achievement, Barry Douglas is gaining a reputation of one of the few accomplished world-class piano virtuosi of the romantic repertoire.
This fifth volume is probably the most virtuosic to date, as it includes the transcendent Scherzo in E flat minor (among Brahms's earliest surviving compositions), technically demanding variations (especially Book II of the famous Op. 35; see Volume 4 for Book I), as well as several intermezzi, strongly marked by Brahms's love of metrical complications.
The album also features three tuneful Hungarian Dances, arranged by the composer for solo piano, repertoire new to Barry Douglas's Brahms exploration.
Tracklist:
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
01 Intermezzo, Op. 118 No. 1 1:53
in A minor - in a-Moll - en la mineur
from [Six] Piano Pieces
Allegro non assai, ma molto appassionato
02 Sarabande, WoO 5 posth. No. 1 2:31
in A minor - in a-Moll - en la mineur
Variations on a Theme by Nicolo Paganini, Op. 35, Book II 10:25
in A minor - in a-Moll - en la mineur
03 Thema. Non troppo presto - 0:26
04 Variation 1. [ ] - 0:49
05 Variation 2. Poco animato - 0:35
06 Variation 3. [ ] - 0:32
07 Variation 4. Poco Allegretto - 0:50
08 Variation 5. [ ] - 0:26
09 Variation 6. Poco più vivace - 0:20
10 Variation 7. [ ] - 0:25
11 Variation 8. Allegro - 0:34
12 Variation 9. [ ] - 0:48
13 Variation 10. Feroce, energico - 0:47
14 Variation 11. Vivace - 0:36
15 Variation 12. Un poco Andante - 1:00
16 Variation 13. Un poco più Andante - 0:39
17 Variation 14. Presto, ma non troppo 1:31
Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 21 No. 1 16:38
in D major - in D-Dur - en ré majeur
18 Thema. Poco larghetto - 1:31
19 Variation 1. [ ] - 1:20
20 Variation 2. Più moto - 0:59
21 Variation 3. [ ] - 1:02
22 Variation 4. [ ] - 1:03
23 Variation 5. Tempo di tema - 1:40
24 Variation 6. Più moto - 1:07
25 Variation 7. Andante con moto - 0:58
26 Variation 8. Allegro non troppo - 0:49
27 Variation 9. [ ] - 0:58
28 Variation 10. [ ] - 1:06
29 Variation 11. Tempo di tema, poco più lento 3:59
30 Sarabande, WoO 5 posth. No. 2 3:08
in B minor - in h-Moll - en si mineur
31 Scherzo, Op. 4 9:15
in E flat minor - in es-Moll - en mi bémol mineur
E.F. Wenzel zugeeignet
Rasch und feurig -
Trio I -
Da Capo lo Scherzo senza repetizione -
Trio II. Molto espressivo -
[Rasch und feurig] - Più mosso - Più sostenuto
32 Intermezzo, Op. 76 No. 3 2:14
in A flat major - in As-Dur - en la bémol majeur
from [Eight] Piano Pieces
Grazioso
33 Intermezzo, Op. 118 No. 4 2:53
in F minor - in f-Moll - en fa mineur
from [Six] Piano Pieces
Allegretto un poco agitato
34 Hungarian Dance, WoO 1 No. 3 2:23
in F major - in F-Dur - en fa majeur
from [Ten] Hungarian Dances for Piano, Two Hands
Allegretto - [ ] - Tempo I
35 Intermezzo, Op. 76 No. 4 2:08
in B flat major - in B-Dur - en si bémol majeur
from [Eight] Piano Pieces
Allegretto grazioso
Variations on a Hungarian Song, Op. 21 No. 2 6:39
in D major - in D-Dur - en ré majeur
36 Allegro - 0:15
37 Variation 1. [ ] - 0:16
38 Variation 2. [ ] - 0:15
39 Variation 3. [ ] - 0:14
40 Variation 4. [ ] - 0:16
41 Variation 5. [ ] - 0:18
42 Variation 6. [ ] - 0:20
43 Variation 7. Poco più lento - 0:26
44 Variation 8. [ ] - 0:27
45 Variation 9. [ ] - 0:24
46 Variation 10. [ ] - 0:14
47 Variation 11. [ ] - 0:10
48 Variation 12. [ ] - 0:12
49 Variation 13. [ ] - 0:15
50 Allegro (il doppio Movimento) - Tempo I più animato 2:30
51 Hungarian Dance, WoO 1 No. 1 3:02
in G minor - in g-Moll - en sol mineur
from [Ten] Hungarian Dances for Piano, Two Hands
Allegro
52 Hungarian Dance, WoO 1 No. 5 2:24
in F sharp minor - in fis-Moll - en fa dièse mineur
from [Ten] Hungarian Dances for Piano, Two Hands
Allegro - Vivace
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Barry Douglas - piano
