PERAHIA PLAYS BRAHMS & SCHUBERT (8 CDs)

The Schubert and Brahms recordings by Murray Perahia are now collected on 8 albums. His versions of the three late Schubert sonatas released in 2003 were the top choice for these works in BBC Radio 3's Building a Library. Gramophone likened his playing here to "a tree just opening from bud in the radiance of spring... Perahia's limpid delicacy constantly reminding us of his dedication to Mozart". In solo Brahms - the F minor Sonata, Handel Variations and late piano pieces - Gramophone lauded Perahia's "superfine musical intelligence and technique". Murray Perahia the collaborative pianist is showcased in Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau's 1990 recording (his seventh) of Schubert's Winterreise ("A gripping performance of mature reflection, aided by Perahia's positive, interactive playing" - BBC Music Magazine); Brahms's "Haydn Variations" for piano four hands partnered in 1987 by Sir Georg Solti ("... so communicative, so warmly sympathetic, so alive and spontaneous" - Gramophone); and the Brahms G minor Piano Quartet from 1986 with the Amadeus Quartet ("Wild and urgent... brims with energy and immediacy... Perahia emerges as a powerful, passionate Brahmsian" - Gramophone).

Brahms: Intermezzo in E flat minor, Op. 118 No. 6
Brahms: Klavierstücke (4), Op. 119
Brahms: Klavierstücke (6), Op. 118
Brahms: Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op. 25 (with Amadeus Quartet)
Brahms: Piano Sonata No. 3 in F minor, Op. 5
Brahms: Rhapsodies (2), Op. 79
Brahms: Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24                              Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 56b "St. Anthony Variations" (with Georg Solti)
Schubert: 4 Impromptus, D899
Schubert: Impromptu in A flat major, D899 No. 4
Schubert: Impromptu in C minor, D899 No. 1
Schubert: Impromptu in E flat major, D899 No. 2
Schubert: Impromptu in G flat major, D899 No. 3
Schubert: 4 Impromptus, D935
Schubert: Impromptu in A flat major, D935 No. 2
Schubert: Impromptu in B flat major, D935 No. 3
Schubert: Impromptu in F Minor, D935 No. 1
Schubert: Impromptu in F minor, D935, No. 4
Schubert: Fantasie in F minor for piano duet, D940 (with Radu Lupu)
Schubert: Piano Sonata No. 19 in C minor, D958
Schubert: Piano Sonata No. 20 in A major, D959
Schubert: Piano Sonata No. 21 in B flat major, D960
Schubert: Winterreise D911 (with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau)