Life and Works: Brahms - CD

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Johannes Brahms

Life and Works of Brahms

 

1. Destiny, Birth, and Childhood

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2. From Brothel to Beethoven

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3. Hungarian Dance No. 1

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4. A Life-changing Tour

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5. The Meeting with Joachim

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6. Piano Sonata No. 3 in F Minor, Op. 5(Scherzo)

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7. Joachim Weighs In

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8. Enter the Schumanns

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9. Piano Sonata No. 3 in F Minor, Op. 5(first movement)

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10. Prophecy and Tragedy: a Double Yoke

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11. Piano Trio No. 2 in C, Op. 87(Scherzo)

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12. Brahms and Clara

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13. Piano Sonata No. 1 in C, Op. 1(Finale)

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14. A Triangular Bond

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15. The Death of Schumann - and a Fateful Decision

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Johannes Brahms

Life and Works of Brahms

 

1. The Young Messiah

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2. Piano Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 15(opening)

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3. The Virtuoso Takes Flight

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4. Variations on a Theme by Paganini, Op. 35

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5. Detmold and Distraction

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6. Serenade No. 1 in D, Op. 11

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7. Birth of the D Minor Concerto

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8. Piano Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 15(Finale)

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9. The Taste of Failure - and of New Love

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10. String Sextet in B flat, Op. 18 (Andante)

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11. Love, Folly, and a New Calling

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12. Motet 'Ich aber bin elend', Op. 110 No. 1

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13. Brahms and Wagner

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14. Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24 (Fugue)

00:05:28

 

15. Frustrated Hopes and a Mother's Death

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16. Trio for Horn, Violin and Piano, Op. 40 (Finale)

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Johannes Brahms

Life and Works of Brahms

 

1. The Road to the Requiem

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2. A German Requiem ('Denn alles Fleisch es ist wie Gras')

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3. The Wanderer

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4. Waltz in E, Op. 39 No. 2

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5. The Consummate Performer

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6. Five Studies for Piano (No. 3: Presto in G Minor, after Bach)

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7. Paradox Personified: the Tender Savage

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8. Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat, Op. 83 (Andante)

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9. A Demanding Friend

00:06:33

 

10. Variations on a Theme by Haydn (or Variations on the St Antony Chorale), Op. 56a

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11. The Eternal Child

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12. The Ghost Exorcised

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13. Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 68 (Finale)

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Johannes Brahms

Life and Works of Brahms

 

1. A Watershed in Brahm's Career

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2. Symphony No. 2 in D, Op. 73 (third movement)

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3. The External Brahms

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4. A Free Man at Last

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5. Violin Concerto in D, Op. 77 (slow movement)

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6. The Composer at Work

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7. Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80

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8. Celebrity and Scholar

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9. Motet 'Wenn ein starker Gewappneter', Op. 109, No. 2

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10. Love, Loss, and Reconciliation

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11. Concerto for Violin and Cello in A Minor, Op. 102 (slow movement)

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12. The Greatest Living Composer - but a Difficult Friend

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13. The Philanthropist

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14. Decline and Death

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15. Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat, Op. 83 (Finale)

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