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Solzhenitsyn Plays Brahms
This album presents three early works of Johannes Brahms combined with the renowned late set of Op. 118.
"The Four Ballades, Op. 10 were written just months after the Variations, and share with them an overall feeling of profound, pointed introspection, and, at times, almost unbearable poignancy. Shaped by an intensely personal inner logic, they eschew any brilliant effect, and such few explosions as do occur fade away inexorably."
—from Ignat Solzhenitsyn's liner notes
JOHANNES BRAHMS (1833-1897)
Scherzo In E-flat Minor, Op. 4 (1851)
Variations on a Theme of Schumann, Op. 9 (1854)
Four Ballades, Op. 10 (1854)
Six Piano Pieces, Op. 118 (1893)
1. Scherzo in E-Flat Minor, Op. 4
2. Variations, Op. 9: Thema: Ziemlich langsam
3. Variations, Op. 9: Var. 1: L'istesso tempo
4. Variations, Op. 9: Var. 2: Poco più moto
5. Variations, Op. 9: Var. 3: Tempo di tema
6. Variations, Op. 9: Var. 4: Poco più moto
7. Variations, Op. 9: Var. 5: Allegro capriccioso
8. Variations, Op. 9: Var. 6: Allegro
9. Variations, Op. 9: Var. 7: Andante
10. Variations, Op. 9: Var. 8: Andante - Non troppo lento
11. Variations, Op. 9: Var. 9: Schnell
12. Variations, Op. 9: Var. 10: Poco adagio
13. Variations, Op. 9: Var. 11: Un poco più animato
14.Variations, Op. 9: Var. 12: Allegretto - Poco scherzando
15. Variations, Op. 9: Var. 13: Non troppo presto
16. Variations, Op. 9: Var. 14: Andante
17. Variations, Op. 9: Var. 15: Poco adagio
18. Variations, Op. 9: Var. 16: Adagio
19. Ballade No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 10, No. 1
20. Ballade No. 2 in D Major, Op. 10, No. 2
21. Ballade No. 3 in B Minor, Op. 10, No. 3
22. Ballade No. 4 in B Major, Op. 10, No. 4
23. Intermezzo in A Minor, Op. 118, No. 1
24. Intermezzo in A Major, Op. 118, No. 2
25. Ballade in G Minor, Op. 118, No. 3
26. Intermezzo in F Minor, Op. 118, No. 4
27. Romanze in F Major, Op. 118, No. 5
28. Intermezzo in E-Flat Minor, Op. 118, No. 6
