Zofia Antes (pianist) and Aleksandra Batog (viola) perform works by Johannes Brahms.

Sechs Klavierstücke, op.118, by Johannes Brahms is one of the most difficult works for an artist to perform in terms of interpretation. The mood of sadness, reflection and melancholy, which runs through almost all the links of the cycle, prompts both the performer and the listener to reflect. The Sonata for Piano and Viola in F minor, op.120 no.1, coming from the late period of Brahms’s works too, is also a demanding composition.

The piece contains elements of the classical sonata form, but also harmonically advanced harmonic and melodic sections typical of the late Romanticism. Both works by Brahms, which you can listen to on the album of Zofia Antes and Aleksandra Batog, reveal a series of musical phenomena symptomatic only for the late works of the composer.