Sonatas for clarinet and piano op.120. Klavierstücke op.118
Lorenzo Coppola, Andreas Staier
1h02
1 CD
HMC902187
Apple Music
The two sonatas for clarinet and piano, composed in 1894, were Brahms’s last chamber works. Knowing that he could count on the virtuosity of their dedicatee, the prodigious clarinettist Richard Mühlfeld (1856-1907), Brahms enthusiastically exploited all the expressive possibilities of the instrument. Under the fingers of Lorenzo Coppola, the clarinet prays, sobs, dreams or laughs, bringing astonishing conviction to all these varied emotions.
JOHANNES BRAHMS [1833-1897] Sonata for clarinet and piano op.120 no.1 in F minor fa mineur / f-Moll · I. Allegro appassionato (7'56) · II. Andante un poco adagio (4'33) · III. Allegro grazioso (4'00) · IV. Vivace (5'01) Sechs Klavierstücke op.118 · I. Intermezzo. Allegro non assai, ma molto appassionato (1'42) · II. Intermezzo. Andante teneramente (5'13) · III. Ballade. Allegro energico (3'23) · IV. Intermezzo. Allegretto un poco agitato (2'38) · V. Romanze. Andante (3'31) · VI. Intermezzo. Andante, largo e mesto (4'38)
Sonata for clarinet and piano op.120 no.2 in E flat major Mi bémol majeur / Es-Dur · I. Allegro amabile (8'05) · II. Allegro appassionato (4'38) · III. Andante con moto - Allegro - Più tranquillo (6'48)
