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Brahms' Four Pieces for Piano Op.119

Sara Mohr-Pietsch wends her way towards Brahms' melancholic late masterpiece. With swansongs from Faure and Mozart, there's also time for a spot of salon carousing in Vienna.

Sara Mohr-Pietsch wends her way towards Brahms' melancholic late masterpiece, with swansongs from Faure and Mozart en route. Brahms had lost close friends and family towards the end of his life, but it's not all darkness: the set was composed on a lakeside summer holiday, and Brahms lets the light in with playful moments. On the way, Sara also explores the gentle rock of the lullaby, a disconcerting rhythm with Handel, and the knees-up of a nineteenth-century tavern in Vienna.

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Music Played

  • Clara Schumann

    3 Romances Op.22 no.1

    Performer: Janine Jansen. Performer: Sir Antonio Pappano.
    • Decca.

  • John Philip Sousa

    The Liberty Bell

    Performer: Frederick Fennell. Ensemble: Eastman Wind Ensemble.
    • Beulah.

  • Amy Beach

    Symphony in E minor "Gaelic": II

    Performer: Kenneth Schermerhorn. Orchestra: Nashville Symphony Orchestra.
    • CLASSICS.

  • Lili Boulanger

    Je garde une médaille d'elle

    Performer: Emilie Inniger. Performer: Dorothé Vdovinskyte.
    • DK Records.

  • Pyotr Tchaikovsky

    Symphony no.6 "Pathetique": II Allegro con grazia

    Performer: Kirill Petrenko. Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    The Art of Fugue: Canon 17

    Performer: Jordi Savall. Ensemble: Hespèrion XXI.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Lacrimosa from Requiem in D minor

    Performer: Pierre Génisson. Performer: Bruno Fontaine. Orchestra: Concerto Köln.

  • Gabriel Fauré

    String Quartet in E Minor: III

    Ensemble: Quatuor Ébène.
    • Erato.

  • Robert Schumann

    Dichterliebe: no.16 "Die alten, böse Lieder"

    Performer: Matthias Goerne. Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • DECCA.

  • Dobrinka Tabakova

    Whispered Lullaby

    Performer: Maxim Rysanov. Performer: Dasol Kim.
    • ECM.

  • George Shearing

    Lullaby of Birdland

    Performer: Chaka Khan.
    • Verve Records.

  • George Frideric Handel

    And the Glory of the Lord (Messiah, Part 1)

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Choir: English Baroque Soloists.
    • Philips.

  • Trad.

    Koilen

    Music Arranger: KLeZMeR. Ensemble: ZRI.
    • Bandcamp.

  • Modest Mussorgsky

    Pictures at an Exhibition: The Great Gate at Kiev

    Performer: Gustavo Dudamel. Music Arranger: Maurice Ravel. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic.

  • Johannes Brahms

    4 Pieces (Vier Klavierstücke) op.119

    Performer: Paul Lewis.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Anitra's Dance (Peer Gynt Suite No 1, Op 46)

    Conductor: Sakari Oramo. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.
    • ERATO.

Broadcast

  • Last Sunday13:30
    BBC Radio 3