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Small Treasures

Sarah Beth Briggs

Small Treasures
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.

Contents and tracklist

I. Eintritt
Track length2:07
II. Jäger auf der Lauer
Track length1:33
III. Einsame Blumen
Track length2:44
IV. Verrufene Stelle
Track length3:55
V. Freundliche Landschaft
Track length1:12
VI. Herberge
Track length2:13
VII. Vogel als Prophet
Track length3:20
VIII. Jagdlied
Track length2:52
IX. Abschied
Track length3:54
I. Larghetto
Track length3:09
II. Un poco agitato
Track length2:25
III. Andante espressivo
Track length5:34
IV. Scherzo
Track length2:35
I. Modéré sans lenteur
Track length2:57
II. Très rapide et rythmé
Track length1:51
III. Andantino tranquillo
Track length2:45
I. Intermezzo. Adagio
Track length4:09
II. Intermezzo. Andantino un poco agitato
Track length4:55
III. Intermezzo. Grazioso e giocoso
Track length1:39
IV. Rhapsody. Allegro risoluto
Track length5:24

Awards and reviews

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.
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