Johannes Brahms – Pogorelich Plays Brahms

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Label: Deutsche Gramophone
Year: 1992
Quality: 220 (VBR) Kbps (stereo)
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Performer: Ivo Pogorelich

Random amazon review about this album
All the piano in all its dimensions and all Brahms are on this CD. This is the best music has to offer. Pogorelich’s “tonal range” (an oxymoron since a range is by definition bounded) is unbelievable: from talk to song to murmur to shout to ecstasy … A truly multi-dimensional recording!

Allmusic about Johannes Brahms
The stature of Johannes Brahms among classical composers is well illustrated by his inclusion among the “Three Bs” triumvirate of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms. Of all the major composers of the late Romantic era, Brahms was the one most attached to the Classical ideal as manifested in the music of Haydn, Mozart, and especially Beethoven; indeed, Hans von Bülow once characterized Brahms’ Symphony No. 1 (1855-1876) as “Beethoven’s Tenth.” As a youth, Brahms was championed by Robert Schumann as music’s greatest hope for the future; as a mature composer, Brahms became for conservative musical journalists the most potent symbol of musical tradition, a stalwart against the “degeneration” represented by the music of Wagner and his school. Brahms’ symphonies, choral and vocal works, chamber music, and piano pieces are imbued with strong emotional feeling, yet take shape according to a thoroughly considered structural plan… Read more…

~ by crossproduct on June 4, 2009.