Sheila Arnold – Brahms Intimissimo with Blüthner 1862 (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:10:27 minutes | 1,01 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Cavi-Music
Recording on our partner label CAvi Music, pianist Sheila Arnold releases her album, on which she performs Brahms, Bach and Jörg Widmann on a special Blüthner grand piano from the early 1860s. As the piano is built with strings that are still straight and not overstrung, the registers are clearly different. The instrument has an unmistakable tone quality due to the unique way it is built, which provides an added layer of multidimensionality for the listener.
“In 2022, when I played this Blüthner for the first time, I was left speechless at first – and that only seemed to make the instrument’s sheer eloquence all the more impressive. I immediately and quasi-unconsciously felt inspired to try out the beginning of Brahms’ Intermezzo (Notturno) in E Major, Op. 116. The piece’s dialogue between deep inner longing, on the one hand, and the loveliness and grace of the response suggested by the music, on the other – all of this was ‘simply there’ all at once,” Arnold states. “It seems to me that this Blüthner Grand Salon Piano is the instrument I have been looking for all my life, and I am happy that it has found its way to me. It has a humanity in its timbre, along with clarity of polyphony. The individual notes have depth and lightness; this exceptional instrument possesses the eloquence of human speech and a songlike tone.”
Tracklist:
1-01. Sheila Arnold – 4 Ballades, Op. 10: No. 1 in D Minor. Andante (05:08)
1-02. Sheila Arnold – 4 Ballades, Op. 10: No. 2 in D Major. Andante (06:46)
1-03. Sheila Arnold – 4 Ballades, Op. 10: No. 3 in B Minor. Intermezzo (04:15)
1-04. Sheila Arnold – 4 Ballades, Op. 10: No. 4 in B Major. Andante con moto (07:41)
1-05. Sheila Arnold – Intermezzi for Piano: No. 1 (00:40)
1-06. Sheila Arnold – Intermezzi for Piano: No. 2, Zart singend (01:18)
1-07. Sheila Arnold – 7 Fantasien, Op. 116: No. 1, Capriccio in D Minor (02:29)
1-08. Sheila Arnold – 7 Fantasien, Op. 116: No. 2, Intermezzo in A Minor (03:44)
1-09. Sheila Arnold – 7 Fantasien, Op. 116: No. 3, Capriccio in G Minor (03:25)
1-10. Sheila Arnold – 7 Fantasien, Op. 116: No. 4, Intermezzo in E Major (04:18)
1-11. Sheila Arnold – 7 Fantasien, Op. 116: No. 5, Intermezzo in E Minor (02:54)
1-12. Sheila Arnold – 7 Fantasien, Op. 116: No. 6, Intermezzo in E Major (03:00)
1-13. Sheila Arnold – 7 Fantasien, Op. 116: No. 7, Capriccio in D Minor (02:50)
1-14. Sheila Arnold – Intermezzi for Piano: No. 4, Wiegenlied (04:25)
1-15. Sheila Arnold – 3 Intermezzi, Op. 117: No. 1 in E-Flat Major. Andante moderato (04:40)
1-16. Sheila Arnold – 3 Intermezzi, Op. 117: No. 2 in B-Flat Minor. Andante non troppo e con molto espressione (04:17)
1-17. Sheila Arnold – 3 Intermezzi, Op. 117: No. 3 in C-Sharp Minor. Andante con moto (05:42)
1-18. Sheila Arnold – The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2, BWV 870-893: Prelude in E Major, BWV 878 (02:46)
