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Brahms: Sonatas nos.1 & 2, Scherzo op. 4; Alexander Melnikov, pf

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 November 2011

Tiffany Kuo*
Affiliation:
Yale University School of Music, Mt San Antonio College

Abstract

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Recording Review
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2011

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References

1 Musgrave, Michael, ‘Early Trends in the Performance of Brahms's Piano Music’, in Performing Brahms: Early Evidence of Performance Style, ed. Musgrave and Bernard D. Sherman (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003): 302326Google Scholar.

2 Musgrave, ‘Early Trends,’ 323–4.

3 Bozarth, George S. and Brady, Stephen H., ‘The Pianos of Johannes Brahms’, in Brahms and His World, ed. Walter Frisch and Kevin C. Karnes, rev. ed. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009): 7393Google Scholar.

4 Schumann, Robert, ‘Neue Bahnen,’ Neue Zeitschrift für Musik 39/18 (28 October 1853): 185186Google Scholar, quoted in translation in A Brahms Reader, ed. Michael Musgrave (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000): 121.

5 These pianos can be found in four different piano showrooms in New York City: Allegro Pianos (Bösendorfer, Blüthner, Steingraeber, and Estonia); Faust Harrison Pianos (Bechstein, Yamaha, and the rebuilt 1886 Steinway); Klavierhaus (Fazioli and the rebuilt 1977 Steinway); and Steinway Hall (the two twenty-first-century New York Steinways).