The four Klavierstücke, Op. 119 – composed at the Austrian spa town of Bad Ischl, Brahms’ summer home-away-from-home, in 1893 – are melancholic in the main, but shot through with warm light and they rise to playfulness and close with steely determination.
“It really is marvelous how things pour from him; it is wonderful how he combines passion and tenderness in the smallest of spaces,” Clara Schumann wrote in her diary after receiving the Op. 118 and 119 pieces from Brahms.
Here is pianist Sviatoslav Richter to play this music for you:
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