András Schiff on the autumnal quality of Brahms' late piano pieces

Following his previous engagement with Brahms’s music, including the composer’s two Piano Concertos with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and the Clarinet Sonatas with Jörg Widmann, András Schiff now turns for the first time to Brahms’s solo piano works: op. 76 and the late works op. 116–119. As Schiff observes, these are “the thoughts of an old man, so autumnal, so full of resignation” – works the Hungarian pianist himself felt he had to wait until later in life to fully appreciate. Schiff brings to these pieces a richly nuanced palette, shaping them down to the finest shades of expression, on a historic Blüthner grand piano dating from the 1850s. The CD booklet includes an essay by Peter Gülke, as well as detailed commentaries by András Schiff on each of the pieces – all texts in both English and German. Pre-order the album: https://ecm.lnk.to/SchiffBrahmsKlavierstueckeID Website: https://www.ecmrecords.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ecmrecords Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ecm_records