Eleonora Spina & Michele Benignetti - Brahms: Sonata for 2 Pianos and the Haydn Variatons (2015)
BAND/ARTIST: Eleonora Spina, Michele Benignetti
- Title: Brahms: Sonata for 2 Pianos and the Haydn Variatons
- Year Of Release: 2015
- Label: Brilliant Classics
- Genre: Classical
- Quality: flac lossless
- Total Time: 01:00:22
- Total Size: 182 mb
- WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist
01. Sonata for 2 Pianos in F Minor, Op. 34b: I. Allegro non troppo
02. Sonata for 2 Piano's in F Minor, Op. 34b: II. Andante, un poco adagio
03. Sonata for 2 Pianos in F Minor, Op. 34b: III. Scherzo, allegro
04. Sonata for 2 Pianos in F Minor, Op. 34b: IV. Finale. Poco sostenuto - Allegro non troppo
05. Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 56b: I. Choral St. Antoni, Andante
06. Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 56b: II. Variation, I. Andante con moto, poco più animato
07. Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 56b: III. Variation, II. più vivace
08. Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 56b: IV. Variation, III. Con moto
09. Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 56b: V. Variation, IV. Andante con moto
10. Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 56b: VI. Variation, V. Poco presto, vivace
11. Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 56b: VII. Variation, VI. Vivace
12. Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 56b: VIII. Variation, VII. Grazioso
13. Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 56b: IX. Variation, VIII. Poco presto
14. Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 56b: X. Finale, Andante
This unassuming-looking "Sonata for two pianos" in fact represents a seminal work in Brahms’s output, as it became the Piano Quintet – whose symphonic dimensions, no less than that of the First Piano Concerto, were one of the many precursors to Brahms finally facing up to the task of composing a symphony proper.
In fact while working on the score, Brahms had showed it to Joachim, who deemed the piece too heavy for strings and (in an unusual instance of Brahms taking advice from anyone) the composer rewrote it for piano duo. Clara Schumann contributed her two-penny-worth too: "It is no sonata but rather a work whose ideas you could – you must – scatter over the entire orchestra as if from a horn of plenty! Right from the first time I played it I had the feeling of its being an arrangement."
However, Brahms retained a fondness for this ‘original’ form of a work that would become so famous, and indeed it reflects the essentially domestic side of so much of his music-making, conceived for friends and musicians together, however strong and unbridled the passions expressed therein. It was Clara herself who remarked that only once she could play through the Third Symphony did she feel able to comment on it: reading and even listening to it weren’t enough.
Brahms made his own arrangements of almost all his orchestral music for the lucrative domestic market, at a time when such work would routinely be farmed out to professional arrangers and lesser musicians.
That includes the Haydn Variations (as we call them, though Haydn had nothing to do with the melody on which Brahms works with such good-humoured ingenuity).
This is the first disc in a projected complete series of Brahms’s work for this combination; all to be recorded by the young Italian musicians Eleonora Spina and Michele Benignetti.
01. Sonata for 2 Pianos in F Minor, Op. 34b: I. Allegro non troppo
02. Sonata for 2 Piano's in F Minor, Op. 34b: II. Andante, un poco adagio
03. Sonata for 2 Pianos in F Minor, Op. 34b: III. Scherzo, allegro
04. Sonata for 2 Pianos in F Minor, Op. 34b: IV. Finale. Poco sostenuto - Allegro non troppo
05. Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 56b: I. Choral St. Antoni, Andante
06. Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 56b: II. Variation, I. Andante con moto, poco più animato
07. Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 56b: III. Variation, II. più vivace
08. Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 56b: IV. Variation, III. Con moto
09. Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 56b: V. Variation, IV. Andante con moto
10. Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 56b: VI. Variation, V. Poco presto, vivace
11. Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 56b: VII. Variation, VI. Vivace
12. Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 56b: VIII. Variation, VII. Grazioso
13. Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 56b: IX. Variation, VIII. Poco presto
14. Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 56b: X. Finale, Andante
This unassuming-looking "Sonata for two pianos" in fact represents a seminal work in Brahms’s output, as it became the Piano Quintet – whose symphonic dimensions, no less than that of the First Piano Concerto, were one of the many precursors to Brahms finally facing up to the task of composing a symphony proper.
In fact while working on the score, Brahms had showed it to Joachim, who deemed the piece too heavy for strings and (in an unusual instance of Brahms taking advice from anyone) the composer rewrote it for piano duo. Clara Schumann contributed her two-penny-worth too: "It is no sonata but rather a work whose ideas you could – you must – scatter over the entire orchestra as if from a horn of plenty! Right from the first time I played it I had the feeling of its being an arrangement."
However, Brahms retained a fondness for this ‘original’ form of a work that would become so famous, and indeed it reflects the essentially domestic side of so much of his music-making, conceived for friends and musicians together, however strong and unbridled the passions expressed therein. It was Clara herself who remarked that only once she could play through the Third Symphony did she feel able to comment on it: reading and even listening to it weren’t enough.
Brahms made his own arrangements of almost all his orchestral music for the lucrative domestic market, at a time when such work would routinely be farmed out to professional arrangers and lesser musicians.
That includes the Haydn Variations (as we call them, though Haydn had nothing to do with the melody on which Brahms works with such good-humoured ingenuity).
This is the first disc in a projected complete series of Brahms’s work for this combination; all to be recorded by the young Italian musicians Eleonora Spina and Michele Benignetti.
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