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Alessio Bax plays Brahms
Johannes Brahms

Alessio Bax plays Brahms

Alessio Bax

Label: Signum Classics
Format: CD
Barcode: 0635212030929
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Catalog number: SIGCD 309
Releasedate: 01-11-12
http://www.signumrecords.com/products/booklets/SIGCD309booklet.pdf

The Italian-born pianist and Leeds competition winner Alessio Bax returns with his third solo recital disc for Signum. His programme surveys a selection of highlights from Brahms' pianistic output, charting his development from the early lyrical collection '4 Ballades' (1854) through to the 'eight perfect gems' that are the Klavierstücke Op.76 (1871-78). Bax also tackles Brahms' fiendish set of 'Variations on a Theme of Pagainini, Op.35', which Bax describes in the programme notes as one of "the most fearsome works ever written for piano".