Brilliant Classics
BRAHMS: Sonata for 2 Pianos and the Haydn Variations - Michele Benignetti (piano) & Eleonora Spina (piano)
BRAHMS: Sonata for 2 Pianos and the Haydn Variations - Michele Benignetti (piano) & Eleonora Spina (piano)
FORMAT (CD, LP, DVD?)
FORMAT (CD, LP, DVD?)
Couldn't load pickup availability
Brahms: Sonata for 2 pianos & Haydn variations
Michele Benignetti (piano) & Eleonora Spina (piano)
Brahms’ Op. 34 is one of the many attempts of the young composer at a large symphonic form. First conceived as a string quartet his friend the great violinist Joseph Joachim found it not suited for strings, so Brahms wrote a setting for two pianos, which her premiered himself with Carl Tausig. Again on advice of a close friend, this time his beloved Clara Schumann, who found the work too grand in scope to be limited to two pianos, he wrote a version for piano and strings, the piano quintet Op. 34a. However Brahms still favoured the version for 2 pianos, which indeed is a master piece in its genre.
The Haydn variations Op.56 were simultaneously composed for 2 pianos and for orchestra. This ever popular work is often heard in concert, and shows Brahms as the genius of the variation form, transforming the popular St Antoni Chorale into variations of great invention and different characters, from tendernes, playfulness to the joyful maestoso finale.
Excellent performances by a young Italian duo, Michele Benignetti and Eleonora Spina, winners of several international chamber music competitions.
Brahms: Sonata for 2 pianos in F minor, Op. 34b
Brahms: Variations on a theme by Haydn for two pianos, Op. 56b 'St Anthony Variations'


GREAT SAVINGS in OUR MARCH CLEARANCE
-
100 Great Symphonies (56 CD SET)
Regular price €79,95 EURRegular priceUnit price / per -
A Venetian Coronation 1595: Works By Andrea & Giovanni Gabrieli - GABRIELI CONSORT / PAUL MCCRESH
Regular price €5,95 EURRegular priceUnit price / per -
ALEXANDRE THARAUD: Le Boeuf Sur Le Toit - Swinging Paris
Regular price €5,95 EURRegular priceUnit price / per -
ANNA NETREBKO with YUSEF EYVAZOV - Romanza
Regular price €6,95 EURRegular priceUnit price / per -
Beethoven: Complete Sonatas For Violin & Piano and Cello & Piano - PAUL TORTELIER, CHRISTIAN FERRAS, ERIC HEIDSIECK, PIERRE BARBIZET (5 CDS)
Regular price €9,95 EURRegular priceUnit price / per -
Beethoven: Fidelio - DRESDEN STAATSKAPELLE, HAITINK (2 CDS)
Regular price €12,95 EURRegular priceUnit price / per -
Beethoven: Piano Sonatas - Moonlight / Appassionata / Pathetique - DANIEL CZOREMPA
Regular price €5,95 EURRegular priceUnit price / per -
Beethoven: Variations For Piano - JOHN OGDON, EMIL GILELS (2 CDs)
Regular price €7,95 EURRegular priceUnit price / per -
Best Of Classics: Works By Handel / Mozart / Elgar (15th Anniversary Edition) - ABBADO / SIMON RATTLE / JOHN ELIOT GARDINER (3 CDS)
Regular price €6,95 EURRegular priceUnit price / per -
Britten, Walton & Tippett: British Composers Series (5 CDs)
Regular price €12,95 EURRegular priceUnit price / per -
FRITZ WUNDERLICH: Operetta - Works Of Lehar & Strauss (2 CDS)
Regular price €5,95 EURRegular priceUnit price / per -
GRIEG: Cello Sonata, String Quartet - Truls Mørk, Håvard Gimse, Sølve Sigerland, Atle Sponberg, Lars Anders Tomter
Regular price €6,95 EURRegular priceUnit price / per -
JOHN MCCORMACK: Icon - I'll Walk Beside You (4 CDs)
Regular price €14,95 EURRegular priceUnit price / per -
Kalman: The Gipsy Princess - NICOLAI GEDDA, BAYERISCHEN STAATSOPERA MUNICH (2 CDS)
Regular price €8,95 EURRegular priceUnit price / per -
MARIA CALLAS: Viva Maria - The EMI Years (2 CDs)
Regular price €7,95 EURRegular priceUnit price / per -
Mendelssohn: Symphonies 3, 4 & 5, Overtures; Liszt: Les Preludes, Franck: Le chasseur maudit - RICCARDO MUTI, PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA, NEW PHILHARMONIA (2 CDs)
Regular price €7,95 EURRegular priceUnit price / per -
MINIMALIST (Music by Glass, Adams, Reich, Heath) - London Chamber Orchestra, Christopher Warren-Green
Regular price €5,95 EURRegular priceUnit price / per -
Mozart: Le Nozze Di Figaro (HIGHLIGHTS) - SCHWARZKOPF / GIULINI / PHILARMONIA ORCHESTRA
Regular price €5,95 EURRegular priceUnit price / per -
Music From Christian & Jewish Spain - JORDI SAVALL / HESPERION XX (2 CDS)
Regular price €8,95 EURRegular priceUnit price / per -
Rodgers & Hammerstein At The Movies - JOHN WILSON ORCHESTRA
Regular price €6,95 EURRegular priceUnit price / per