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Brahms - Klavierstücke (6), Op. 118
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Instrumental » Piano Solos » Klavierstücke
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Volodos, rather like the music, can seem to inhabit a world of his own – removed, remote, yet in steely control of the expression of that remoteness…Volodos is a master of soft and silken tone... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2017, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2017, Instrumental Choice
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2017
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2017, Winner - Piano
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Winner - Instrumental
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He is tender in op. 118/2 and powerful on op. 118/3. Op. 116/4 sings, and op. 117/2 is delicate, with a lovely touch. In several of these works—op. 116/5 and 6, and op. 117/1, for example—Brahms’s... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2020, Recording of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Finalist - Instrumental
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2020
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Brahms: Piano Concertos & Solo Piano Op. 116-119
RecommendedIgor Levit (piano), Wiener Philharmoniker, Christian Thielemann
Levit’s utterly compelling accounts of the late sets are the more impressive element in this collection. He does not put a foot wrong in any of them; each piece is perfectly shaped, its subtly... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Assorted Programs
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2025, Concerto
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Paul Lewis conveys the music’s intimate nature admirably, and he’s also well attuned to the obverse side of Brahms - the intense passion of such pieces as the first of the Opp. 116 and 118 series…these... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 21st January 2022
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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His long experience with Bach's keyboard works gives him a natural point of entry to the Variations on a Theme of Handel, which is taken at quite fast tempos...Yet Perahia never draws attention... —
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2011, Disc of the month
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2011, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Winner - Instrumental
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The music does indeed appear to ‘pour’ from his fingers as though as part of an incandescent flow, alternating the impassioned eloquence of the three capriccios and reflective intensity of the... —
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Steering a balanced course between imaginative vitality and warmth on one side and resigned melancholy on the other can be difficult, but Nicholas Angelich manages it with a kind of panache.... —
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2007, Instrumental Choice
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Record Review, December 2007, Critics Disc of the Year
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This is altogether very impressive playing, capturing all the intimacy of the pieces which Brahms labelled as Intermezzos, as well as the drama and urgency of the more outward-going Capriccios…What... —
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2019, Instrumental Choice
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Brahms: Solo & Duet Piano Music
RecommendedWalter Klien (piano), Alfred Brendel (piano), Beatriz Klein (piano)
this collection makes an admirable way to explore Brahms's most familiar and rewarding piano repertoire. Klien's performance of the F minor Sonata is unsurpassed, with all the spontaneous buoyancy... —
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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