Brahms: Four Hand Piano Music Vol 4 / Matthies, Köhn

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Label
Naxos
Release Date
March 1, 1999
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      BRAHMS
    • PERFORMER
      Silke-Thora, Christian, Matthies, Köhn
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      March 01, 1999
    • UPC
      730099472623
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      8553726
    • LABEL
      Naxos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Instrumental
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Allegro molto

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Silke-Thora Matthies, Christian Köhn

    2. II. Scherzo: Allegro non troppo

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Silke-Thora Matthies, Christian Köhn

    3. III. Adagio non troppo

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Silke-Thora Matthies, Christian Köhn

    4. IV. Minuetto I & II

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Silke-Thora Matthies, Christian Köhn

    5. V. Scherzo: Allegro

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Silke-Thora Matthies, Christian Köhn

    6. VI. Rondo: Allegro

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Silke-Thora Matthies, Christian Köhn

    7. I. Allegro moderato

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Silke-Thora Matthies, Christian Köhn

    8. II. Scherzo: Vivace

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Silke-Thora Matthies, Christian Köhn

    9. III. Adagio no troppo

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Silke-Thora Matthies, Christian Köhn

    10. IV. Quas menuetto

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Silke-Thora Matthies, Christian Köhn

    11. V. Rondo: Allegro

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Silke-Thora Matthies, Christian Köhn


In the late 1850s, Brahms was doing a number of things involving symphonies and pianos. He was having a heck of a time getting his first symphony to fly, and while working on a D minor sonata for 2 pianos, he decided to turn that work into a symphony. However, finding the pianistic ideas intractable, he ended up with his Piano Concerto No. 1. A few years later, he embarked on a multi-movement "symphony serenade" for small orchestra, which was published in 1860 as the Serenade No. 1 in D major, along with its companion, No. 2 in A major.
Despite the initial notion that these might be proto-symphonies, they are relaxed, genial works, well suited to the name "serenade." Brahms also published them in four-hand piano scores, an arrangement to which they adapt quite nicely. They sound wonderfully fresh here, given invigorating performances by the German piano team of Silke-Thora Matthies and Christian Kohn.