Barry Douglas' series on Chandos of the complete solo piano works of Johannes Brahms has reached its sixth and final volume, and like its predecessors, offers a mix of genres, though the major keyboard works have already been covered by this point. Instead, a handful of Intermezzi and Capriccios appears with a number of shorter works without opus numbers, including several of the Hungarian Dances, and studies of pieces by Christoph Willibald Gluck, Frédéric Chopin, Carl Maria von Weber, and Johann Sebastian Bach. While ...
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Barry Douglas' series on Chandos of the complete solo piano works of Johannes Brahms has reached its sixth and final volume, and like its predecessors, offers a mix of genres, though the major keyboard works have already been covered by this point. Instead, a handful of Intermezzi and Capriccios appears with a number of shorter works without opus numbers, including several of the Hungarian Dances, and studies of pieces by Christoph Willibald Gluck, Frédéric Chopin, Carl Maria von Weber, and Johann Sebastian Bach. While Douglas' programming in other volumes gave the feeling of a 19th century recital by combining the sonatas and the sets of variations with miniatures, this volume resembles an appendix, bringing together the odds and ends that don't fit easily into the general scheme. The practical effect of this plan is that collectors of the full series can have everything Brahms wrote, but casual listeners might not recognize much on this disc. The Rakoczy March is well-known in arrangements by other...
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Add this copy of Brahms: Works for Solo Piano, Vol. 6 to cart. $35.01, new condition, Sold by newtownvideo rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from huntingdon valley, PA, UNITED STATES, published 2016 by Chandos.
Add this copy of Brahms: Works for Solo Piano, Vol. 6 to cart. $18.51, good condition, Sold by New England Booksellers rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Greenfield, MA, UNITED STATES, published 2016 by Chandos.
