Brahms & the Schumanns: New Paths / Mari Kodama

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Label
PENTATONE
Release Date
November 18, 2022
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Johannes Brahms, Robert Schumann
    • PERFORMER
      Mari Kodama
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      November 18, 2022
    • UPC
      827949097669
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      PTC5186976
    • LABEL
      PENTATONE
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Allegro

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Mari Kodama

    2. II. Andante (nach einem altdeutschen Minneliede)

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Mari Kodama

    3. III. Scherzo: Allegro molto e con fuoco

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Mari Kodama

    4. IV. Finale: Allegro con fuoco

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Mari Kodama

    5. Theme

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Mari Kodama

    6. Variation 1

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Mari Kodama

    7. Variation 2

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Mari Kodama

    8. Variation 3

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Mari Kodama

    9. Variation 4

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Mari Kodama

    10. Variation 5

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Mari Kodama

    11. Variation 6

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Mari Kodama

    12. Variation 7

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Mari Kodama

    13. Variation 8

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Mari Kodama

    14. Variation 9

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Mari Kodama

    15. Variation 10

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Mari Kodama

    16. Variation 11

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Mari Kodama

    17. Variation 12

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Mari Kodama

    18. Variation 13

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Mari Kodama

    19. Variation 14

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Mari Kodama

    20. Variation 15

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Mari Kodama

    21. Variation 16

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Mari Kodama

    22. Theme and Variations in D Minor (arr. of String Sextet No. 1 in B-Flat Major, Op. 18: II. Andante ma moderato)

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Mari Kodama

    23. Myrthen, Op. 25: No. 1. Widmung (arr. C. Schumann for piano)

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Mari Kodama


Mari Kodama presents New Paths, exploring the young Johannes Brahms and his fascinating friendship with Clara and Robert Schumann. The album derives its title from Robert Schumann’s famous essay “Neue Bahnen”, in which he heralded the young Brahms as the most eminent musical voice of the future. The program brings together Brahms’s first piano sonata, his Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann, Op. 9, as well as his Theme And Variations, Op. 18B, made at Clara Schumann’s request. The final word is given to Clara’s arrangement of Robert’s song Widmung.

New Paths not only explores the unique bond of these three remarkable composers, but also shows the energetic self-confidence of the young Brahms, so different from his later melancholia. Kodama performs these works on a brand new Yamaha piano that almost sounds like a period instrument, coming much closer to Brahms’s sound ideal. Mari Kodama is one of the most extraordinary pianists of our age, and has an impressive Pentatone discography, featuring Beethoven’s complete piano sonatas (2003-2014), piano concertos of Loewe and Chopin (2003), Tchaikovsky Ballet Suites for Piano Duo (2016), De Falla’s Nights in the Gardens of Spain (2017), Martinu’s Concerto for Two Pianos (2018), Kaleidoscope, Beethoven Transcriptions and MON AMI Mon amour (both 2020).