Brahms: Complete Variations for Solo Piano | CD review

Garrick Ohlsson(Hyperion, two CDs)Garrick Ohlsson includes six sets of Brahms's variations in his survey, though only two of them, the Variations and Fugue on a theme by Handel, Op 24, and the Paganini Variations, Op 35, are well known and appear regularly in recital programmes nowadays. But another work here, the D minor Theme and Variations, will be familiar to chamber-music lovers as the great slow movement of the Op 18 string sextet; Brahms made this piano transcription as a birthday presen...

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