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Paganini Variations, Books I and II, Op. 35 / Etudes Symphoniques, Op. 13
Johannes Brahms, Robert Schumann

Sophia Agranovich

Paganini Variations, Books I and II, Op. 35 / Etudes Symphoniques, Op. 13

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Label: Centaur Records, Inc.
UPC: 0044747336725
Catnr: CRC 3367
Release date: 07 November 2014
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Centaur Records, Inc.
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0044747336725
Catalogue number
CRC 3367
Release date
07 November 2014
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This album features two great masterpieces of the romantic piano music literature. Now based in the United States, Ukranian pianist Sophia Agranovich infuses these works with passion.

Artist(s)

Sophia Agranovich (piano)

A native of Ukraine, Sophia Agranovich has been described as 'a bold, daring pianist in the tradition of the Golden Age Romantics....A tigress of the piano (Fanfare Magazine).  She has performed in The United States, Canada, Europe, and Israel.  She is making numerous recordings for Centaur Records, and her recording are meeting with great critical acclaim.
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A native of Ukraine, Sophia Agranovich has been described as "a bold, daring pianist in the tradition of the Golden Age Romantics....A tigress of the piano (Fanfare Magazine). She has performed in The United States, Canada, Europe, and Israel. She is making numerous recordings for Centaur Records, and her recording are meeting with great critical acclaim.

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Robert Schumann

Robert Schumann was a German composer and influential music critic. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest composers of the Romantic era. Schumann left the study of law, intending to pursue a career as a virtuoso pianist. He had been assured by his teacher Friedrich Wieck that he could become the finest pianist in Europe, but a hand injury ended this dream. Schumann then focused his musical energies on composing. Schumann's published compositions were written exclusively for the piano until 1840; he later composed works for piano and orchestra; many Lieder (songs for voice and piano); four symphonies; an opera; and other orchestral, choral, and chamber works. Works such as Carnaval, Symphonic Studies, Kinderszenen, Kreisleriana, and the Fantasie in...
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Robert Schumann was a German composer and influential music critic. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest composers of the Romantic era. Schumann left the study of law, intending to pursue a career as a virtuoso pianist. He had been assured by his teacher Friedrich Wieck that he could become the finest pianist in Europe, but a hand injury ended this dream. Schumann then focused his musical energies on composing.
Schumann's published compositions were written exclusively for the piano until 1840; he later composed works for piano and orchestra; many Lieder (songs for voice and piano); four symphonies; an opera; and other orchestral, choral, and chamber works. Works such as Carnaval, Symphonic Studies, Kinderszenen, Kreisleriana, and the Fantasie in C are among his most famous. His writings about music appeared mostly in the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik (New Journal for Music), a Leipzig-based publication which he jointly founded.
In 1840, Schumann married Friedrich Wieck's daughter Clara, against the wishes of her father, following a long and acrimonious legal battle, which found in favour of Clara and Robert. Clara also composed music and had a considerable concert career as a pianist, the earnings from which, before her marriage, formed a substantial part of her father's fortune.
Schumann suffered from a mental disorder, first manifesting itself in 1833 as a severe melancholic depressive episode, which recurred several times alternating with phases of ‘exaltation’ and increasingly also delusional ideas of being poisoned or threatened with metallic items. After a suicide attempt in 1854, Schumann was admitted to a mental asylum, at his own request, in Endenich near Bonn. Diagnosed with "psychotic melancholia", Schumann died two years later in 1856 without having recovered from his mental illness.

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Johannes Brahms

Johannes Brahms was a German composer and pianist. Born in Hamburg into a Lutheran family, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria. His reputation and status as a composer is such that he is sometimes grouped with Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven as one of the 'Three Bs' of music, a comment originally made by the nineteenth-century conductor Hans von Bülow.   Brahms composed for symphony orchestra, chamber ensembles, piano, organ, and voice and chorus. A virtuoso pianist, he premiered many of his own works. He worked with some of the leading performers of his time, including the pianist Clara Schumann and the violinist Joseph Joachim (the three were close friends). Many of his works have become...
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Johannes Brahms was a German composer and pianist. Born in Hamburg into a Lutheran family, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria. His reputation and status as a composer is such that he is sometimes grouped with Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven as one of the "Three Bs" of music, a comment originally made by the nineteenth-century conductor Hans von Bülow.
Brahms composed for symphony orchestra, chamber ensembles, piano, organ, and voice and chorus. A virtuoso pianist, he premiered many of his own works. He worked with some of the leading performers of his time, including the pianist Clara Schumann and the violinist Joseph Joachim (the three were close friends). Many of his works have become staples of the modern concert repertoire. Brahms, an uncompromising perfectionist, destroyed some of his works and left others unpublished.
Brahms has been considered, by his contemporaries and by later writers, as both a traditionalist and an innovator. His music is firmly rooted in the structures and compositional techniques of the Classical masters. While many contemporaries found his music too academic, his contribution and craftsmanship have been admired by subsequent figures as diverse as Arnold Schoenberg and Edward Elgar. The diligent, highly constructed nature of Brahms's works was a starting point and an inspiration for a generation of composers. Within his meticulous structures is embedded, however, a highly romantic nature.

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01.
28 Variations on a Theme by Paganini, Op. 35, Book 1: Theme
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28 Variations on a Theme by Paganini, Op. 35, Book 1: Variation 1
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28 Variations on a Theme by Paganini, Op. 35, Book 1: Variation 2
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28 Variations on a Theme by Paganini, Op. 35, Book 1: Variation 3
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28 Variations on a Theme by Paganini, Op. 35, Book 1: Variation 4
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28 Variations on a Theme by Paganini, Op. 35, Book 1: Variation 5
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28 Variations on a Theme by Paganini, Op. 35, Book 1: Variation 6
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28 Variations on a Theme by Paganini, Op. 35, Book 1: Variation 7
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28 Variations on a Theme by Paganini, Op. 35, Book 1: Variation 8
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28 Variations on a Theme by Paganini, Op. 35, Book 1: Variation 9
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28 Variations on a Theme by Paganini, Op. 35, Book 1: Variation 10
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28 Variations on a Theme by Paganini, Op. 35, Book 1: Variation 11
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28 Variations on a Theme by Paganini, Op. 35, Book 1: Variation 12
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28 Variations on a Theme by Paganini, Op. 35, Book 1: Variation 13
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28 Variations on a Theme by Paganini, Op. 35, Book 1: Variation 14
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28 Variations on a Theme by Paganini, Op. 35, Book 2: Variation 1
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28 Variations on a Theme by Paganini, Op. 35, Book 2: Variation 2
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28 Variations on a Theme by Paganini, Op. 35, Book 2: Variation 3
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28 Variations on a Theme by Paganini, Op. 35, Book 2: Variation 4
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28 Variations on a Theme by Paganini, Op. 35, Book 2: Variation 5
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28 Variations on a Theme by Paganini, Op. 35, Book 2: Variation 6
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28 Variations on a Theme by Paganini, Op. 35, Book 2: Variation 7
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28 Variations on a Theme by Paganini, Op. 35, Book 2: Variation 8
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28 Variations on a Theme by Paganini, Op. 35, Book 2: Variation 9
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28 Variations on a Theme by Paganini, Op. 35, Book 2: Variation 10
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28 Variations on a Theme by Paganini, Op. 35, Book 2: Variation 11
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28 Variations on a Theme by Paganini, Op. 35, Book 2: Variation 12
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28 Variations on a Theme by Paganini, Op. 35, Book 2: Variation 13
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28 Variations on a Theme by Paganini, Op. 35, Book 2: Variation 14
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Études symphoniques, Op. 13: Thema. Andante
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Études symphoniques, Op. 13: Etude 1, Un poco più vivo
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Études symphoniques, Op. 13: Etude 2, Espressivo
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Études symphoniques, Op. 13: Etude 3, Vivace
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Études symphoniques, Op. 13: Etude 4, Allegro marcato
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Études symphoniques, Op. 13: Etude 5, Scherzando
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Études symphoniques, Op. 13: Etude 6, Agitato
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Études symphoniques, Op. 13: Etude 7, Allegro molto
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Études symphoniques, Op. 13: Etude 8, Sempre marcatissimo
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Études symphoniques, Op. 13: Etude 9, Presto possibile
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Études symphoniques, Op. 13: Etude 10, Sempre con energia
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Études symphoniques, Op. 13: Etude 11, Con espressione
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Études symphoniques, Op. 13: Etude 12, Finale. Allegro brillante
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Liebeslied, S. 566/R. 253 Widmung (After Schumann)
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