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Brahms - Piano Works
from: Sony Classics

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 5099705265123
Label: Sony Classics
Manufacturer: Sony Classics
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Sony Classics
Release Date: March 08, 1993
Studio: Sony Classics
Sales Rank: 63349

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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Wonderful Brahms
This is one of my favourite GG Editions. Few pianists can match his super-sensitive touch and ethrial rendition of Brahms' Intermezzi. Only problem I find is that he plays some of the pieces too fast. For example the most beautiful intermezzo in A, Op.118 Nr2 is outrageously fast. Pogorelich plays the work beautifully with noble poise and delicacy.


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - LIKE NO OTHER
Gould was not too sure about Beethoven and downright contemptuous of Mozart, but about Brahms he entertained no doubts at all. Let me say without more ado that this disc has some of the greatest Brahms-playing I ever heard or ever expect to. If one thing more than any made an impression on me, it was his handling of the central part of the G minor rhapsody. This sequence is in a uniquely Brahmsian mood and tone, like the passages marked 'tranquillo' in the middle of the finale of the second symphony and in the slow section of the tragic overture. None of these are lyrical in style and Brahms doesn't actually say 'tranquillo' here in the rhapsody, but the feel is the same. The one thing I can put my finger on explicitly is the way Gould gives ... Read More:

 



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