Intermezzo Archive
BRAHMS: Piano Sonata; Intermezzi; Capriccio; Ballade; Klavierstücke; Waltz – Nelson Freire, piano – Decca
Nelson Freire plays BRAHMS = Piano Sonata No. 3 in f minor, Op. 5; Intermezzo in A-flat Major, Op. 76, No. 3; Intermezzo in B-flat Major, Op. 76, No. 4; Capriccio in d minor, Op. 116, No. 1; Intermezzo in E Major, Op. 116, No. 4; Intermezzo in b-flat minor, Op. 117, No. 2; Intermezzo […]
FRANZ SCHMIDT: Symphony; R. STRAUSS: Intermezzo Excerpt – Vienna Phil. Orch./ Semyon Bychkov – Sony
FRANZ SCHMIDT: Symphony No. 2 in E-flat Major; R. STRAUSS: Dreaming by the Fireside – Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra/ Semyon Bychkov – Sony 88985355522, 55:20 (6/2/17) ****: Semyon Bychkov and the VPO celebrate music that proves endemic to Vienna, in their under-rated favorite son, Franz Schmidt. Generally speaking, the late-Romantic music of Franz Schmidt (1874-1939) has not […]
SCHUMANN: Cello Concerto in a; Sym. No. 2 in C Major – Jan Vogler, cello/ Dresden Festival Orch./ Ivor Bolton – Sony
Suave and elegant Schumann played in natural, heroic manner by all principals. SCHUMANN: Cello Concerto in a, Op. 129; Symphony No. 2 in C Major, Op. 61 – Jan Vogler, cello/ Dresden Festival Orch./ Ivor Bolton – Sony 88985372122, 59:06 (12/2/16) ****: Clara Schumann once referred to the people of Dresden as “Philistines,” convinced that, […]
Grigory Sokolov, piano – SCHUBERT/ BEETHOVEN – DGG (2 discs) DGG
DGG combines two live Sokolov recitals to produce a towering program, intellectual and exciting at once. Sokolov – SCHUBERT/ BEETHOVEN – SCHUBERT: Four Impromptus, D. 899; Drei Klavierstuecke, D. 946; BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No. 29 in B-flat Major, Op. 106 “Hammerklavier”; RAMEAU: Les Tendres Plaintes; Les Tourbillons; Les Cyclopes; La Follette; Les Sauvages; BRAHMS: Intermezzo […]
All the Way Back = Works of SMETONA, BRAHMS, BRACH, SCHUMANN, LISZT & CHOPIN – Vytautas Smetona, piano – Navona
Pianist Vytautas Smetona returns to the recording studio with a recital that embodies “the rhetoric of desire” in the Romantic ethos.
Marian Filar, piano = CHOPIN & BRAHMS works (1949-52) – MeloClassic
A Holocaust survivor with a grand musical gift, Marian Filar gives us Chopin and Brahms with bountiful panache and style, 1949-1952.
BRAHMS: Seven Fantasias; Three Intermezzi; Six Pieces; Four Pieces – Ariel Halevy, piano – Romeo
Potent, if unsubtle, performances of late Brahms, but resonant and filled with a conviction that wins us over.
Kendlinger Dirigert STRAUSS 2011 (Music of JOHANN STRAUSS II, JOSEF STRAUSS, JOHANN STRAUSS I) – Claudia Emà Camie, sop.; K&K Philharmoniker /Matthias Georg Kendlinger – DaCapo
An excellent selection of music by the Viennese Strauss family.
BRAHMS: “Mass & Motets” = Missa canonica; motets; Fest und… – Swedish Radio Choir/Dijkstra – Channel ClassicsBRAHMS: “Choral Works” = 8 total – Soloists/ Cappella Amsterdam/ Reuss – Harmonia mundi CD
Two superb examples of Brahms’s choral expertise.
BRAHMS: “Mass & Motets” = Missa canonica; motets; Fest und… – Swedish Radio Choir/Dijkstra – Channel ClassicsBRAHMS: “Choral Works” = 8 total – Soloists/ Cappella Amsterdam/ Reuss – Harmonia mundi CD
Two superb examples of Brahms’s choral expertise.
BRAHMS: Complete Piano Music Vol. 4 = Zwei Rhapsodien; Klavierstücke; Scherzo; Walzer – Hardy Rittner, p. – MD&G
Is this how Brahms heard his own works in performance? Very possibly. The experience will challenge the ear attuned to the modern piano.
BRAHMS: Piano Concerto No. 1; Intermezzo 1 – Hardy Rittner, piano/ Werner Ehrhardt, cond. – MD&G
Brahms First Piano Concerto as he heard it?
BRAHMS: 7 Fantasien; 3 Intermezzi; 2 Rhapsodies; Variations and Fugue on Theme of Handel – Peter Katin, p. – Divine Art
Katin recorded these Brahms solo piano works in Norway in 1990.
BACH: Italian Concerto; BRAHMS: Four Pieces for Piano; A. RUBINSTEIN: Melody in F; PROKOFIEV: Piano Sonata No. 4; D. RUBINSTEIN: Sonatina – David Rubinstein, p. – Musicus
A gifted pianist makes some points, but the cumulative effect remains more “academic” than inspirational.
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