Composer: Johannes Brahms
Performer: Jeremy Siepmann
Number of Discs: 4
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Naxos
Catalogue: 8558071-74
Release: 2002
Size: 862 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
CD 01
01. Destiny, Birth, and Childhood
02. From Brothel to Beethoven
03. Hungarian Dance No. 1
04. A Life-changing Tour
05. The Meeting with Joachim
06. Piano Sonata No. 3 in F Minor, Op. 5(Scherzo)
07. Joachim Weighs In
08. Enter the Schumanns
09. Piano Sonata No. 3 in F Minor, Op. 5(first movement)
10. Prophecy and Tragedy: a Double Yoke
11. Piano Trio No. 2 in C, Op. 87(Scherzo)
12. Brahms and Clara
13. Piano Sonata No. 1 in C, Op. 1(Finale)
14. A Triangular Bond
15. The Death of Schumann – and a Fateful Decision
CD 02
01. The Young Messiah
02. Piano Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 15(opening)
03. The Virtuoso Takes Flight
04. Variations on a Theme by Paganini, Op. 35
05. Detmold and Distraction
06. Serenade No. 1 in D, Op. 11
07. Birth of the D Minor Concerto
08. Piano Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 15(Finale)
09. The Taste of Failure – and of New Love
10. String Sextet in B flat, Op. 18 (Andante)
11. Love, Folly, and a New Calling
12. Motet ‘Ich aber bin elend’, Op. 110 No. 1
13. Brahms and Wagner
14. Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24 (Fugue)
15. Frustrated Hopes and a Mother’s Death
16. Trio for Horn, Violin and Piano, Op. 40 (Finale)
CD 03
01. The Road to the Requiem
02. A German Requiem (‘Denn alles Fleisch es ist wie Gras’)
03. The Wanderer
04. Waltz in E, Op. 39 No. 2
05. The Consummate Performer
06. Five Studies for Piano (No. 3: Presto in G Minor, after Bach)
07. Paradox Personified: the Tender Savage
08. Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat, Op. 83 (Andante)
09. A Demanding Friend
10. Variations on a Theme by Haydn (or Variations on the St Antony Chorale), Op. 56a
11. The Eternal Child
12. The Ghost Exorcised
13. Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 68 (Finale)
CD 04
01. A Watershed in Brahm’s Career
02. Symphony No. 2 in D, Op. 73 (third movement)
03. The External Brahms
04. A Free Man at Last
05. Violin Concerto in D, Op. 77 (slow movement)
06. The Composer at Work
07. Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80
08. Celebrity and Scholar
09. Motet ‘Wenn ein starker Gewappneter’, Op. 109, No. 2
10. Love, Loss, and Reconciliation
11. Concerto for Violin and Cello in A Minor, Op. 102 (slow movement)
12. The Greatest Living Composer – but a Difficult Friend
13. The Philanthropist
14. Decline and Death
15. Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat, Op. 83 (Finale)
