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Contents: Etude after Chopin * Rondo after von Weber * Presto after Bach (1st and 2nd versions) * Chaconne by Bach (arranged for the left hand) * Gavotte by Gluck * Impromptu by Schubert, Op. 90, No. 2 (Study for the left hand) * Two Gigues * Two Sarabandes * Theme and Variations * Hungarian Dances, Nos. 1-10 * Cadenza for Bach's Clavier Concerto in D Minor * Two Cadenzas for Mozart's Piano Concerto in G, K453 * Cadenza for Mozart's Piano Conc...

Brahms started work on his lush setting of Friedrich Hölderlin's poem Hyperions Schicksalslied (Hyperion's Song of Destiny) in 1868 but did not complete it until 1871, being unsatisfied with the ending until he completed his better-known Alto Rhapsody, Op.53. The vocal score offered here is a clean digitally-enhanced reprint of the classic vocal score issued by Breitkopf & Härtel in the early 20th century edited by the eminent musicologist Eus...

Brahms enriched the genre of chorus and orchestra with two impressive works from the early 1880s: In 1881, he set a text to Schiller's Nanie (Op.82, four-part chorus and orchestra) and the next year (1882) he set Goethe's text for Gesang der Parzen, Op.89 (Song of the Fates) which explores the concept of fate as it relates to mankind. The text admonishes us to "Fear the Gods! They hold the power In eternal hands And can use it As they please."...

Brahms composed the piece in 1881, in memory of his deceased friend Anselm Feuerbach. Nanie (Song of Lamentation) is not about simple despair or mere complaint. Even in such dark moments, Schiller's romanticism is expressed as a yearning for the unattainable. The work opens with "Auch das Schone muss sterben!" (Even Beauty must die), and the tension between the veracity of the message and the yearning of the human spirit for the timelessness o...