Brahms: Works for Solo Piano Volume 2
Jonathan Plowright (piano)
Awards:
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BBC Music Magazine, Instrumental Choice
Plowright delivers this highly charged musical argument with tremendous momentum, but is careful to follow Brahms's meticulous pedal marks, thus ensuring that none of the full-blooded textures...
Brahms: Works for Solo Piano Volume 2
Jonathan Plowright (piano)
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Awards:
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BBC Music Magazine, Instrumental Choice
Plowright delivers this highly charged musical argument with tremendous momentum, but is careful to follow Brahms's meticulous pedal marks, thus ensuring that none of the full-blooded textures...
About
The Second Piano Sonata is a hugely impressive work weighing-in with a playing time of almost 30 minutes and is accompanied here by a number of shorter works including the Three Intermezzi, one of the darkest and most beautiful of Brahms’ late piano works.
The BBC Music Magazine, reviewing volume one of the series, found “tremendous warmth, plus an intimate atmosphere” in the performances.
Contents and tracklist
Work length29:02
I. Allegro non troppo, ma energico
Track length5:42
II. Andante con espressione
Track length6:59
III. Scherzo. Allegro
Track length3:39
IV. Finale. Sostenuto - Allegro non troppo e rubato
Track length12:42
Work length20:12
- Jonathan Plowright
- Recorded: January 2014
- Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Saxmundham, Suffolk, United Kingdom
Theme
Track length1:44
Variation 1
Track length1:42
Variation 2
Track length0:57
Variation 3
Track length1:12
Variation 4
Track length1:09
Variation 5
Track length1:55
Variation 6
Track length1:15
Variation 7
Track length1:49
Variation 8
Track length0:49
Variation 9
Track length0:53
Variation 10
Track length1:23
Variation 11
Track length5:24
Work length18:14
- Jonathan Plowright
- Recorded: January 2014
- Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Saxmundham, Suffolk, United Kingdom
No. 1 in E-Flat Major
Track length5:02
No. 2 in B-Flat Minor
Track length5:52
No. 3 in C-Sharp Minor
Track length7:20
Work length8:48
- Jonathan Plowright
- Recorded: January 2014
- Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Saxmundham, Suffolk, United Kingdom
Awards and reviews
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BBC Music MagazineInstrumental Choice
Christmas 2014
Plowright delivers this highly charged musical argument with tremendous momentum, but is careful to follow Brahms's meticulous pedal marks, thus ensuring that none of the full-blooded textures sound bloated...[in the Variations] Plowright's refined pianism really comes into its own...Even more hypnotic is Plowright's wonderfully subtle approach to the Op. 117 Intermezzos.
December 2014
Already audacious and formidable, [the F sharp minor sonata] brims over with thorny obstacles and it takes a master pianist of Plowright's stature to resolve its complication into lucidity. This he does with all of his customary command...But the chief wonder of this disc remains Op. 117.
15th January 2015
from the first few bars of [the Sonata's] opening movement, it’s clear that Plowright has got a perfect sense of the scale and the range of this tricky early work. As well as its technical brilliance, the sense of the boundless invention of the young Brahms worrying away at the constraints of sonata form is vividly present.
