Format Details:
Release Date: 18 March 2022
Label: Urania Records
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 8051773570827
Genres: Classical Solo Instrumental
Description
This CD is dedicated to the most personal vein of Brahms, to that musical intimacy that dwells in him from the works of youth to the works of extreme old age.
A melancholy tenderness deeply rooted in his soul on which (and, at times, against which) the Hamburg composer built all his rigorous creative teaching. On the one hand, one of the many manifestations of romanticism, on the other the classical Beethoven heritage and the great tradition of counterpoint (Bach, but also masters more distant in time). The realization of the great forms (symphonies, concerts, sonatas, variations, the major chamber works, the Requiem) often takes place in Brahms through long and troubled gestations, studded with trials, errors, second thoughts: his masterpieces of larger dimensions reveal, among their folds, an incessant eff ort to perfect. Despite the chronological distance of the proposed works, a red thread connects them: the taste for a lean writing style that evokes solemn and tragic atmospheres; the deep lyrical sweetness, the sense of a pressing and inexorable destiny, a certain irony and almost unsettling playfulness, but, above all, a calm and resigned melancholy that reveals his deepest voice to us.
Tracklisting
Erich Leinsdorf; Boston Symphony Orchestra
Sviatoslav Richter, Philharmonia Orchestra, Wiener Symphoniker Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan
Luigi Chiarizia
Claudio Ronco & Emanuel Vozza
Ensemble Mark Rothko
Furiosi Affetti Ensemble, Lorenzo Gugole, Giorgio Bottiglion
Elena Suliotis, Mario Del Monaco, Fiorenza Cossotto, Orchestra and Coro dell'Accademia di Santa Cec
Vladimir Ashkenazy
Slava Guerchovitch
Nora von Marschall
Lea Suter
Aart Bergwerff
Ran Jia
Johannes Krahl
Elke Volker
Henry Fairs
