Small Treasures
Sarah Beth Briggs
Although Briggs can occasionally sound over-deliberate, she has a special secret weapon at her disposal, and it is arguably clearest in the Robert Schumann Arabeske and Brahms's Op. 119 Klavierstücke:...
Small Treasures
Sarah Beth Briggs
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Although Briggs can occasionally sound over-deliberate, she has a special secret weapon at her disposal, and it is arguably clearest in the Robert Schumann Arabeske and Brahms's Op. 119 Klavierstücke:...
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Pianist Sarah Beth Briggs’ latest AVIE offering, Small Treasures, leads with music by two composers of which her interpretations have been widely praised – Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms – alongside works by Robert’s wife Clara, two members of the French composing circle ‘Les Six’ – Poulenc and Tailleferre – all capped with a Mozart miniature. In her first solo recording for AVIE in 2019, Sarah Beth Briggs’ performances of music by Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms were described as “81 minutes of pianistic Heaven” by International Piano Magazine. In her latest offering, Small Treasures, Sarah returns (amongst others) to two of those composers’ greatest sets of miniatures: Schumann’s piano cycle Waldszenen and Brahms’s 4 Klavierstücke, Op.119, his final statement for solo piano.
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December 2025
Although Briggs can occasionally sound over-deliberate, she has a special secret weapon at her disposal, and it is arguably clearest in the Robert Schumann Arabeske and Brahms's Op. 119 Klavierstücke: she is excellently alive to the presence of music in silence. She allows as much meaning to lurk between the notes as in the sound itself. Not all pianists do.