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Brahms: Four Hand Piano Music, Vol. 3
Johannes Brahms, Christian Kohn, Silke-Thora Matthies
Brahms: Four Hand Piano Music, Vol. 3
Genre: Classical
 
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Silke-Thora Matthies and Christian Köhn have previously recorded two volumes of Brahms and a disc of Dvorák's Slavonic Dances. Both of the works on this disc are better-known in other scorings, the Sonata as Brah...  more »

     
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All Artists: Johannes Brahms, Christian Kohn, Silke-Thora Matthies
Title: Brahms: Four Hand Piano Music, Vol. 3
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Label: Naxos
Release Date: 9/29/1998
Genre: Classical
Styles: Forms & Genres, Sonatas, Historical Periods, Romantic (c.1820-1910), Symphonies
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 730099465427

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Silke-Thora Matthies and Christian Köhn have previously recorded two volumes of Brahms and a disc of Dvorák's Slavonic Dances. Both of the works on this disc are better-known in other scorings, the Sonata as Brahms's Piano Quintet, the Variations in Brahms's orchestral version. While the better-known versions came later, the fact that Brahms did not suppress these scores (as he did with so many others) indicates that he considered them valid alternatives. And even if you miss the color of the strings in the Sonata, or the orchestra in the Variations, the singing tone, nuances, and driving power (but only when called for) make these performances very much worth hearing--different in style from the excellent Argerich-Rabinovitch version, and much less expensive. --Leslie Gerber
 

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Wonderful!
J Scott Morrison | Middlebury VT, USA | 01/29/2003
(5 out of 5 stars)

"The Haydn Variations are probably the best-known of Brahms's four-hand arrangements of his orchestral music; two-piano and solo piano versions also exist. They each have their felicities. In this recording the focus is primarily on the working-out of the musical ideas by a four-hand team that obviously breathe and think as one. This ongoing series, which has now reached (as of this writing) its seventh volume, goes from strength to strength. I am waiting eagerly for the volume that will bring us the Fourth Symphony whose last movement is reminiscent of the Haydn Variations in that it is a sprawling but cogently argued set of variations. The Symphony, like the Second and Third on Volume 7, is neatly played and stylishly laid out by this wonderful piano-duo team."