Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 & Handel Variations

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This is Brahms playing of the highest quality. Lars Vogt secures an ideal balance between the intellectual and emotional components of these two epic works…Vogt’s achievement is all the more... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2020, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 3rd Apr 2020
Catalogue No: ODE1346-2
Label: Ondine
Length: 74 minutes

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August 2020

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Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 83

Work length46:41

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Lars Vogt (piano)
Northern Sinfonia

I. Allegro non troppo

Track length17:43

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II. Allegro appassionato

Track length9:05

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III. Andante

Track length10:31

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IV. Allegretto grazioso

Track length9:22

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Brahms: Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24

Work length27:57

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Lars Vogt (piano)

Aria - Variations

Track length22:30

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Fugue

Track length5:27

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Interview, Lars Vogt on Brahms

6th May 2020

The German pianist and conductor talks to Katherine about the joys and challenges of directing the two Brahms concertos from the keyboard on his recent recordings with Royal Northern Sinfonia on Ondine.

The second album in Lars Vogt’s Johannes Brahms concerto series with the Royal Northern Sinfonia includes Brahms’ 2nd Piano Concerto combined with a solo piano work, Handel Variations Op. 24, which was dedicated to Clara Schumann by the composer.

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August 2020

This is Brahms playing of the highest quality. Lars Vogt secures an ideal balance between the intellectual and emotional components of these two epic works…Vogt’s achievement is all the more impressive since he directs the Concerto from the keyboard…Instead of the conventional battle-royal between soloist and orchestra, the Royal Northern Sinfonia respond to the nuances in his playing with solid ensemble and chamber music-like sensitivity.

Jul/Aug 2020

It’s to Lars Vogt’s immense credit that he knows how to get power from the piano without ponderousness. Part of achieving this comes from taking slightly faster tempos overall, especially in the first and slow movements. Most of it derives from Vogt’s strong, nearly violent way of pouncing on Brahms’s many syncopations. These same pianistic virtues serve to make Brahms’s Handel Variations here the most delightful experience of them I have yet encountered.

June 2020

Vogt’s approach is robust, shapely and highly rhythmical. He mitigates Brahms’s habitual textural thickness by refusing to pedal through staccato passages. Together with the orchestra, a marvellous plasticity of line is maintained throughout. This pliant rubato is the bedrock of their realisation of the music’s passionate ardour and vast sense of space...What a pleasure to encounter Brahms, so often interpreted as relentlessly earnest, here captured with his eyes brimming with joy.

July/August 2020

Once again there is beautifully phrased playing from Vogt and his ensemble ... neatly and imaginatively achieved.

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Interview, Lars Vogt on Brahms

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