Alessandro Mercando - Brahms: Variations On A Theme By Schumann & Other Piano Work (2022)

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Artist: Alessandro Mercando
Title: Brahms: Variations On A Theme By Schumann & Other Piano Work
Year Of Release: 2022
Label: Urania Records
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 1:17:50
Total Size: 261 MB
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist:

1. 4 Ballades, Op. 10: No. 1 in D Minor, Andante "Edward" (04:14)
2. 4 Ballades, Op. 10: No. 2 in D Major, Andante (06:48)
3. 4 Ballades, Op. 10: No. 3 in B Minor, Intermezzo. Allegro (04:19)
4. 4 Ballades, Op. 10: No. 2 in B Major, Andante con moto (08:09)
5. Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann, Op. 9: Thema. Ziemlich langsam (01:27)
6. Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann, Op. 9: Var. 1, L'istesso tempo (01:20)
7. Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann, Op. 9: Var. 2, Poco più moto (00:36)
8. Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann, Op. 9: Var. 3, Tempo di tema (01:12)
9. Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann, Op. 9: Var. 4, Poco più moto (00:49)
10. Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann, Op. 9: Var. 5, Allegro capriccioso (00:57)
11. Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann, Op. 9: Var. 6, Allegro (00:57)
12. Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann, Op. 9: Var. 7, Andante (00:48)
13. Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann, Op. 9: Var. 8, Andante (01:48)
14. Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann, Op. 9: Var. 9, Schnell (00:34)
15. Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann, Op. 9: Var. 10, Poco adagio (02:12)
16. Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann, Op. 9: Var. 11, Un poco più animato (00:48)
17. Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann, Op. 9: Var. 12, Allegretto, poco scherzando (00:40)
18. Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann, Op. 9: Var. 13, Non troppo presto (00:35)
19. Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann, Op. 9: Var. 14, Andante (01:04)
20. Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann, Op. 9: Var. 15, Poco adagio (01:42)
21. Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann, Op. 9: Var. 16, Adagio (02:00)
22. 2 Sarabandes, WoO 5: No. 1 in A Minor (02:20)
23. 2 Sarabandes, WoO 5: No. 2 in B Minor (02:49)
24. 3 Intermezzi, Op. 117: No. 1 in E-Flat Major, Andante moderato (04:42)
25. 3 Intermezzi, Op. 117: No. 2 in B-Flat Minor, Andante non troppo e con molto espressione (04:12)
26. 3 Intermezzi, Op. 117: No. 3 in C-Sharp Minor, Andante con moto (05:43)
27. 4 Pieces for Piano, Op. 119: No. 1 in B Minor, Intermezzo. Adagio (03:06)
28. 4 Pieces for Piano, Op. 119: No. 2 in E Minor, Intermezzo. Andantino un poco agitato (04:31)
29. 4 Pieces for Piano, Op. 119: No. 3 in C Major, Intermezzo. Grazioso e giocoso (01:42)
30. 4 Pieces for Piano, Op. 119: No. 4 in E-Flat Major, Rhapsody. Allegro risoluto (05:33)

This CD is dedicated to the most personal vein of Brahms, to that musical intimacy that dwells in him from the works of youth to the works of extreme old age. A melancholy tenderness deeply rooted in his soul on which (and, at times, against which) the Hamburg composer built all his rigorous creative teaching. On the one hand, one of the many manifestations of romanticism, on the other the classical Beethoven heritage and the great tradition of counterpoint (Bach, but also masters more distant in time). The realization of the great forms (symphonies, concerts, sonatas, variations, the major chamber works, the Requiem) often takes place in Brahms through long and troubled gestations, studded with trials, errors, second thoughts: his masterpieces of larger dimensions reveal, among their folds, an incessant eff ort to perfect. Despite the chronological distance of the proposed works, a red thread connects them: the taste for a lean writing style that evokes solemn and tragic atmospheres; the deep lyrical sweetness, the sense of a pressing and inexorable destiny, a certain irony and almost unsettling playfulness, but, above all, a calm and resigned melancholy that reveals his deepest voice to us.

Alessandro Mercando - Brahms - Piano Works.rar - 261.0 MB