This set presents a musical portrait of Johannes Brahms in piano works from his early and later years.

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Every bar of the Sonata burns with longing and passion thwarted, even the Andante tellingly prefaced with lines from the Romantic poet Sternau: ‘The twilight falls, the moonlight gleams, two hearts in love unite, embraced in rapture’. Almost four decades later, Brahms signed off as a composer with the more subtle and even playful spirit of a sublimely allusive quartet of opus numbers, the three Intermezzi Op.117, the seven Fantasias Op.116 and the two sets of mixed genrepieces that make up Opp. 118 and 119.

These demand the most refined command of phrasing and harmony – at points they come closer than any other work of Brahms to casting loose from the anchor of tonality and anticipating the world of Schoenberg, for whom Brahms was an exemplar – and are eminently suited to a pianist such as Kopachevsky who has already proved himself at home in the twilit world of Liszt and Scriabin, in music on the brink of extinction. A richly rewarding release for all lovers of Romantic piano music and another feather in the cap of a superb young pianist.

Philipp Kopachevsky made his Piano Classics debut in 2016 with an ambitious selection of late Scriabin and Liszt, and Bryce Morrison in Gramophone was impressed: ‘haunting in confidentiality… no less powerful in storm and stress… never less than sensitive.’

Composer: Johannes Brahms
Artist: Philipp Kopachevsky (piano)

Tracklist:

Piano Sonata No. 3 in F Minor, Op. 5:
00:00:00 I. Allegro maestoso
00:09:52 II. Andante espressivo
00:20:46 III. Scherzo, allegro energico
00:25:35 IV. Intermezzo, andante molto
00:29:17 V. Finale, allegro moderato ma rubato

3 Intermezzi, Op. 117:
00:36:30 I. Andante moderato in EFlat Major
00:42:11 II. Andante non troppo in BFlat Minor
00:47:24 III. Andante con moto in CSharp Minor


17 Fantasien, Op. 116:
00:54:07 I. Capriccio in D Minor. Presto energico
00:56:29 II. Intermezzo in A Minor. Andante
01:00:27 III. Capriccio in G Minor. Allegro passionate
01:03:32 IV. Intermezzo in E Major. Adagio
01:08:12 V. Intermezzo in E Minor. Andante con grazia ed intimissimo sentiment
01:10:58 VI. Intermezzo in E Major. Andantino teneramente
01:14:05 VII. Capriccio in D Minor. Allegro agitato

6 Klavierstücke, Op. 118:
01:16:17 I. Intermezzo in A Minor. Allegro non assai
01:18:15 II. Intermezzo in A Major. Andante teneramente
01:24:22 III. Ballade in G Minor. Allegro energico
01:27:54 IV. Intermezzo in F Minor. Allegretto un poco agitato
01:30:29 V. Romanze in F Major. Andante
01:34:41 VI. Intermezzo in EFlat Minor. Andante, largo e mesto

4 Klavierstücke, Op. 119:
01:40:47 I. Intermezzo in B Minor. Adagio
01:44:33 II. Intermezzo in E Minor. Andantino un poco agitato
01:49:25 III. Intermezzo in C Major. Grazioso e giocoso
01:51:09 IV. Rhapsodie in EFlat Major. Allegro risoluto