Brahms: Late Piano Works
Piotr Anderszewski (piano)
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2026, Editor's Choice
Throughout, he returns you to the concentration and density that Brahms packs into these miraculous creations. Even if you have a current favourite among existing recordings, this commands attention.
Brahms: Late Piano Works
Piotr Anderszewski (piano)
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Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2026, Editor's Choice
Throughout, he returns you to the concentration and density that Brahms packs into these miraculous creations. Even if you have a current favourite among existing recordings, this commands attention.
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"These late works by Brahms are like a testament. But what is this secretive man revealing to us here? Or rather, what is he still trying to hide? Hiding it until the very end, arousing in us an irresistible desire to guess what it is? Perhaps that is where the beauty of these scores lies." - Piotr Anderzewski
A short album, a selection of jewels from Brahms’ Late Piano works (Op. 116 to 119, with Op. 119 No.4 being the last piano piece Brahms ever wrote) proposed in a carefully chosen order.
Brahms’ Op. 116 to 118 represent the composer’s late piano works, written during the final decade of his life (1892–1893). Here we find a more mature, intimate and subtle Brahms, far removed from the roaring Romanticism of his earlier works. It is as if these pieces serve as a personal testament.
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Awards and reviews
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Gramophone MagazineFebruary 2026Editor's Choice
February 2026
Throughout, he returns you to the concentration and density that Brahms packs into these miraculous creations. Even if you have a current favourite among existing recordings, this commands attention.
16th January 2026
By selecting a dozen of these intimate miniatures to make up an absorbing 48-minute programme, the Polish pianist opens a markedly individual window on to the composer’s solitary artistic maturity...Bringing the recital to a close is the tragic Op 118, No 6, a reading shrouded in otherworldly sorrow.
28th January 2026
Anderszewski is a particularly sensitive explorer of such terrain, so much so that it’s quite a jolt when resolute clamour arrives elsewhere. Cherish this album for the pianist’s poise, the music’s mysteries and the many quiet delights.
