Small Treasures

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Label
Avie Records
Release Date
October 24, 2025
Format
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    Featuring
    • COMPOSER
      Johannes Brahms, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Francis Poulenc, Robert Schumann, Clara Schumann, Germaine
    • PERFORMER
      Sarah Beth Briggs
    Product Details
    • RELEASE DATE
      October 24, 2025
    • UPC
      822252277128
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      AV2771
    • LABEL
      Avie Records
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE

In her first solo recording for AVIE in 2019, Sarah Beth Briggs' performances of music by Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms were described as "81 minutes of pianistic Heaven" by International Piano Magazine. In her latest offering, Small Treasures, Sarah returns to two of those composers' greatest sets of miniatures: Schumann's piano cycle Waldszenen and Brahms's 4 Klavierstu�cke, Op.119, his final statement for solo piano. Alongside these, Sarah sets Schumann's much loved Arabeske from earlier in his composing career and the delightfully fleeting Impromptu by his wife Clara, together with her 4 Pie'ces fugitives, much lauded in her lifetime. The remaining 'Treasures' transport the listener to 20th-century France, comparing works by two members of Paris's composing circle 'Les Six' - Francis Poulenc's evocative 3 Novelettes (written across a 30-year time span) and Germaine Tailleferre's Sicilienne. As an encore, Sarah - a former International Mozart Competition winner - ends with a tiny gem by Wolfgang Amadeus: his 1789 Kleine Gigue in G in which light-hearted playfulness mingles with forward-looking chromaticism, miraculously seeming to find common ground with all of the works from the subsequent two centuries included on Small Treasures.