Brahms: Fantasies Op 116; Handel Variations and Fugue Op 24; Schoenberg: Six Little Pieces Op 19; Suite Op 25 | CD review

Shai Wosner (Onyx)This is a genuinely imaginative pairing of two composers who have more in common than their popular images might suggest. Schoenberg's brand of modernism was built upon Brahms's classicism just as much as it depended upon Wagner's harmonic emancipation. Shai Wosner frames his disc with Schoenberg's Suite and what he regards as Brahms's first mature large-scale piano work, the Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel. They are decent performances, but between them Wosner takes ...

Read full article Share article