Brahms: 10 Intermezzi for Piano; 4 Ballades [Import]

Johannes Brahms (Composer), Glenn Gould (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Glenn Gould
• Composer: Johannes Brahms
• Audio CD (September 30, 2002)
• SPARS Code: DDD
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Sony Bmg Europe
• ASIN: B00006G9UM
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #75,493 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #74 in Music > Classical > Forms & Genres > Ballads

Track Listings

1. Ballades (4) for piano, Op. 10: No. 1 in D minor 'Edward Ballade'

2. Ballades (4) for piano, Op. 10: No. 2 in D major

3. Ballades (4) for piano, Op. 10: No. 3 'Intermezzo' in B minor

4. Ballades (4) for piano, Op. 10: No. 4 in B major

5. Intermezzi (3) for piano, Op. 117: No. 1 in E-flat major. Andante moderato

6. Intermezzi (3) for piano, Op. 117: No. 2 in B-flat minor. Andante non troppo e con molta espressione

7. Intermezzi (3) for piano, Op. 117: No. 3 in C-sharp minor. Andante con moto

8. Intermezzo for piano in E flat minor, Op. 118/6

9. Intermezzo for piano in E major, Op. 116/4

10. Intermezzo for piano in A minor, Op. 76/7

11. Intermezzo for piano in A major, Op. 76/6

12. Intermezzo for piano in B minor, Op. 119/1

13. Intermezzo for piano in A minor, Op. 118/1

14. Intermezzo for piano in A major, Op. 118/2

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

28 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Surprisingly Exquisite and Tender Brahms, October 26, 2004

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JMB1014 "JMB1014" (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Brahms: 10 Intermezzi for Piano; 4 Ballades (Audio CD)

This album is a delight. Seldom has Brahms, or Glenn Gould, sounded better. The tenderness and understated eloquence with which these pieces are rendered reaffirmed something I had always felt about Gould: that he was not out merely to vindicate an artistic credo, but to make beautiful music. He asserted he had enjoyed an opportunity to play these pieces in an improvisational style. If that's true, he should have improvised a lot more. There is a sweetness, lyricism and quiet romantic quality to these works and Gould brings them off tremendously. I have never heard them played better, more simply and sincerely, utterly free of affectation. There is nothing more lovely and calming than to play this just before going to sleep. (They sound just as good when you're wide awake.) Great as Gould was, this is pure ravishment.

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A surprising find, January 15, 2005

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Francesco Calegari (Evanston, IL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Brahms: 10 Intermezzi for Piano; 4 Ballades (Audio CD)

Brahms and Gould -- a surprising but effective match. From a performer most identified with Bach comes a recording that genuinely captures the Romantic expressiveness of Brahms. Although I knew many of these pieces from previous recordings Gould (as always) brings new ideas to the music. Of course, it wouldn't be Gould without the occasional idiosyncrasy -- op.119 no.1 is played ridiculously fast, for example.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars amazing Brahms recordings, November 5, 2004

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Sungu Okan "Can Okan" (Istanbul, Istanbul Turkey) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Brahms: 10 Intermezzi for Piano; 4 Ballades (Audio CD)

These performances are really succesful. Glenn Gould is feel very good the atmosphere of Brahms' music. Still, Glenn Gould is a Canadian pianist as you know, so he has a character of a North World man. And Brahms already is a typic a noble man came from North Europe. So, their character is nearly same and Gould is bringing vert good the Brahms' somewhere heavy, cld and stormy but somewhere lyric and warm passages. Especially in Intermezzos. Gould's another Brahms recording, Piano Quintet with Montreal String Quartet, is very good, also. And the both recordings are highly recommended.