028948481675

Julius Katchen: The Brahms Recordings

Julius Katchen; LSO; Ruggiero Ricci; Pierre Monteux; Janos Ferencsik

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Format: 17CD

Cat No: ELQ4848167

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Release Date:  31 July 2026

Label:  Eloquence

Packaging Type:  Box Set

No of Units:  17

Barcode:  028948481675

Genres:  Classical  Orchestral  

Composer/Series:  Julius Katchen

  • Description

    A complete collection of Julius Katchen's Brahms recordings, featuring him as heroic concerto soloist, dynamic chamber-music partner and rugged, scintillating protagonist in the solo-piano music. Includes previously unreleased versions of the clarinet sonatas with Michel Portal, and the First Cello Sonata with Janos Starker, as well as several fascinating repertoire duplications between recordings made in the mono and stereo eras. LIMITED EDITION. After Julius Katchen's untimely death from cancer in April 1969, aged just 42, the tribute paid by his record label Decca could claim without hyperbole that Katchen was 'one of the finest Brahms interpreters of his generation'. Less than 20 years earlier, he had burst like a firework onto the international scene with a record of Brahms's F minor Sonata, which became the first solo-piano LP to be issued by Decca. Critics and listeners were quick to admire the muscular, aquiline profile of playing that felt true to Brahms as the 'keyboard lion' of his own generation.