Brahms: Works for Solo Piano, Volume 6
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JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Works for Solo Piano, Volume 6
Barry Douglas (piano)
[ Chandos / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 15 July 2016
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This is the sixth and final volume in Barry Douglas's survey of Brahms's output for solo piano, which started four years ago. The recital completes a project that over 441 minutes has represented a 'triumph of Brahmsian thoughts' and in which 'every sound is resonantly Brahmsian'. According to BBC Music, 'Douglas's tone is a deep velvet cushion, the legatos full of affection and the rhythms galvanised with great energy'. The selection of works offered here invites us to consider Brahms under many aspects - arranger, virtuoso, pedagogue, historicist, and above all pianist - which Barry Douglas embraces perfectly.
"This final stage of Douglas's Brahms survey offers an engaging, always surprising sequence of short (with one exception) and often fugitive pieces...at the end, as if a salutary chastening after the fun, his left-hand-only transcription of Bach's great D minor violin Chaconne. But, of course, it proves the most engrossing item of all." (Sunday Times)
Tracks:
'Rakoczy' March, Anhang III No. 10 in A minor
Intermezzo, Op. 118 No. 6 in E flat minor
Canon, Anhang III No. 2 in F minor
Gigue, WoO 4 posth. No. 1 in A minor
Gigue, WoO 4 posth. No. 2 in B minor
Capriccio, Op. 76 No. 5 in C sharp minor
Intermezzo, Op. 76 No. 7 in A minor
Capriccio, Op. 76 No. 8 in C major
Gavotte by Chr. W. Gluck, Anhang Ia No. 2 in A major
Study No. 1. Étude after Fr. Chopin, Anhang Ia No. 1 in F minor
"Study No. 2. Rondo after C.M. von Weber,
Anhang Ia No. 1 in C major "
Study No. 3. Presto after J.S. Bach, Anhang Ia No. 1 in G minor
Hungarian Dance, WoO 1 No. 2 in D minor
Hungarian Dance, WoO 1 No. 4 in F sharp minor
Hungarian Dance, WoO 1 No. 6 in D flat major
Hungarian Dance, WoO 1 No. 7 in F major
Hungarian Dance, WoO 1 No. 8 in A minor
Hungarian Dance, WoO 1 No. 9 in E minor
Hungarian Dance, WoO 1 No. 10 in E major
Study No. 5. Chaconne by J.S. Bach, Anhang Ia No. 1 in D minor, for the Left Hand
