Brahms: Piano Sonata No 2 / Variations Op 21 / Intermezzi
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JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Piano Sonata No 2 / Variations Op 21 / Intermezzi
Jonathan Plowright (piano)
[ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD ]
Release Date: Friday 10 October 2014
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The Second Piano Sonata is a hugely impressive work weighing-in with a playing time of almost 30 minutes and is accompanied here by a number of shorter works including the Three Intermezzi, one of the darkest and most beautiful of Brahms' late piano works.
The BBC Music Magazine, reviewing volume one of the series, found "tremendous warmth, plus an intimate atmosphere" in the performances.
"Plowright delivers this highly charged musical argument with tremendous momentum, but is careful to follow Brahms's meticulous pedal marks, thus ensuring that none of the full-blooded textures sound bloated...[in the Variations] Plowright's refined pianism really comes into its own...Even more hypnotic is Plowright's wonderfully subtle approach to the Op. 117 Intermezzos." BBC Music Instrumental Choice Christmas 2014
Tracks:
Piano Sonata No. 2 in F sharp minor, Op. 2
Variations on an Original Theme in D major, Op. 21, No. 1
Intermezzi (3), Op. 117
Scherzo in E flat minor, Op. 4
