Brahms’ second Intermezzo in B-flat minor, Andante non troppo e con molto espressione, possesses a kind of sorrow, and it displays a more reflective mood. One may associate this piece with the diffuse glow of moonlight through the clouds at night. The music symbolizes a person’s sigh and the lingering melody at the end conveys a sense of death.
This Music was composed in the late 1800’s and Brahms in fact died in Vienna on April 3, 1897.
I have so many favorite compositions for solo piano and this is surely one of them as played by the incomparable Grigory Sokolov:
