Brahms: Complete Works For Solo Piano
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JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Complete Works For Solo Piano
Barry Douglas (piano)
[ Chandos / 6 CD Box Set ]
Release Date: Friday 5 January 2018
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Barry Douglas's complete Brahms cycle for solo piano is now available as a unique box set. It contains all the six widely acclaimed volumes of the series, each disc planned and presented as a standalone mixed recital, along with the original booklets.
Completed within the course of five years, the series was seen by BBC Music as 'a triumph of Brahmsian thoughts'. It offers 'beautifully manicured playing' (Pianist), 'captures Douglas's sound perfectly' (International Piano), and will 'leave you a different person' (Gramophone).
"Douglas continues to create provocative playlists by liberating short pieces from opus-number groups and strategically programming them alongside larger-scale compositions…a mixed bag laced with genuine pearls" Gramophone Magazine, October 2015 (Vol 5)
"if you like your Brahms super-rugged, this CD will not disappoint. Douglas's powerful tone and serious demeanour captures the composer's uncompromising side; yet there's a sense of flow that makes the intermezzos generous and warm without veering towards the emotionally indulgent" BBC Music Magazine, December 2015 **** (Vol 5)
"Douglas superbly draws out the contrasts within each piece, bringing out their individual character, but the two ends of the Brahms life spectrum...seem perhaps closer than is entirely comfortable. Yet Douglas's pianism is as rewarding as before: his tone is a deep velvet cushion, the legatos full of affection and the rhythms galvanised with great energy." BBC Music Magazine, May 2013 ***** (Vol 2)
"Douglas comes fully alive throughout the C major Sonata. His proportioned rubatos in the first movement's second theme and broodingly sustained Andante imbue the unwieldy textures with colour and variety." Gramophone (Vol 4)
""The performances on this disc indicate that Barry Douglas is a Brahms interpreter of some stature...I loved the reading of Op 117 No 1. This bewitching lullaby is played with the utmost...The prospect of exploring Brahms's solo piano music with Barry Douglas is an exciting one." MusicWeb (Vol 1)
"This is a well conceived and executed set, one which made me listen anew to the piano music of Brahms, and one that brought me great pleasure." MusicWeb May 2018
Tracks:
Rhapsodies (2), Op. 79
Intermezzo in E major, Op. 116 No. 4
Intermezzo in E flat major, Op. 117 No. 1
Intermezzo in A major, Op. 118 No. 2
Capriccio in D minor, Op. 116 No. 1
Capriccio, Allegro passionato in G minor, Op. 116 No. 3
Capriccio for Piano in D minor, Op. 116 No. 7
Romance in F major, Op. 118 No. 5
Ballade, Op. 10 No. 4
Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24
Rhapsody in E flat major, Op. 119 No. 4
Intermezzo in B flat minor, Op. 117 No. 2
Intermezzo in A minor, Op. 116 No. 2
Intermezzo in E major, Op. 116 No. 6
Ballade in G minor, Op. 118, No. 3
Ballade, Op. 10 No. 2
Ballade, Op. 10 No. 3
Piano Sonata No. 3 in F minor, Op. 5
Rhapsody in E flat major, Op. 119 No. 4
Intermezzo in B flat minor, Op. 117 No. 2
Intermezzo in A minor, Op. 116 No. 2
Intermezzo in E major, Op. 116 No. 6
Ballade in G minor, Op. 118, No. 3
Ballade, Op. 10 No. 2
Ballade, Op. 10 No. 3
Piano Sonata No. 3 in F minor, Op. 5
Ballade, Op. 10 No. 1 'Edward'
Capriccio in F sharp minor, Op. 76 No. 1
Capriccio in B minor, Op. 76 No. 2
Intermezzo in A major, Op. 76 No. 6
Variations on a theme by Schumann in F sharp minor, Op. 9
Intermezzo in E minor, Op. 119 No. 2
Intermezzo in C sharp minor, Op. 117 No. 3
Piano Sonata No. 1 in C major, Op. 1
Paganini Variations, Op. 35, Book II
Piano Pieces, Op. 76 Nos 3 and 4
Piano Pieces, Op. 118 Nos 1, 4, and 6
Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 21 No. 1
Variations on a Hungarian Song, Op. 21 No. 2
Two Sarabandes, WoO 5 posth.
Scherzo in E flat minor, Op. 4
'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
Study No. 5. Chaconne by J.S. Bach, Anhang Ia No. 1 in D minor, for the Left Hand
Hungarian Dances, WoO 1 Nos 1, 3, and 5
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
