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Brahms - Piano Music | Brilliant Classics 93815

Brahms - Piano Music

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Label: Brilliant Classics

Cat No: 93815

Barcode: 5028421938158

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Instrumental

Release Date: 11th May 2009

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About

One of a series of releases from Brilliant Classics featuring outstanding young artists who have won the principal prizes at the Young Pianist Foundation’s National Piano Competition.

Thomas Beijer, born in 1988, started playing and studying the piano at the age of 8. A pupil of Jan Wijn, he won the prestigious Dutch Young Pianist Foundation Prize in 2007. He performs frequently both in the Netherlands and internationally.

Brahms’ output for solo piano spans his creative life, from the early Scherzo Op.4 of 1851, to the late Intermezzi Op. 116–9. The Third Sonata Op.5, the central work on this disc, was the last to be written for solo piano – all his other sonatas being for piano with violin, cello, clarinet/viola. It is a heroic, large-scale piece, presenting considerable technical demands for the pianist. Cast in five movements, the fourth is an intermezzo, a form that Brahms became preoccupied with later in his career. The second movement is prefaced with lines from a poem by Sternau: ‘The twilight falls, the moonlight gleams, two hearts in loveunite, embraced in blissful rapture.’ Schumann described Brahms’s three sonatas for piano as ‘symphonies in disguise’, such is their size and temperament.

The first of the two works in Op.79 was originally to be called ‘capriccio’, but an exchange with Brahms’ publisher Simrock settled the matter and ‘rhapsody’ became the term for both these thrilling works. They are marked ‘agitato’ and ‘passionato’ respectively.

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