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CD of the Week- Brahms performed by Garrick Ohlsson
Garrick Ohlsson


Week starting: March 4, 2019

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Label: Hyperion

Year: 2018
TRACKS:
Fantasies (7 piano pieces), Op. 116
Intermezzi (3), Op. 117
Klavierstücke (6), Op. 118
Scherzo in E flat minor, Op. 4

CD of the Week- Brahms performed by Garrick Ohlsson
Garrick Ohlsson


Brahms announced his retirement from composing on more than one occasion, but these are among the last solo pieces he wrote for piano. By contrast, the Op 4 scherzo is the work of an eighteen-year-old, and the earliest he approved for publication.

"Ohlsson leaves the best till last. The Op. 4 Scherzo, written when Brahms was just 18, has a driving excitement, a febrile quality that is thrilling. And, with his easy brand of virtuosity, he sounds right at home here…Ohlsson is very naturally recorded too."- Gramophone

"To hear them unfolded as beautifully as they are here is invigorating, insightful and a joy."- The Sunday Times

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