{"product_id":"lwc1084-brahms-dark-midnight-in-finstrer-mitternacht-op-5-op-79-op-1","title":"Brahms: Dark Midnight (In Finstrer Mitternacht) - Op. 5, Op . 79, Op. 1","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eIn the Spring of 1853, the twenty-year-old Johannes Brahms embarked on a concert tour of his native Germany with the Hungarian violinist Eduard Reményi. During their travels Brahms met the renowned violin virtuoso Joseph Joachim, whom he had heard five years earlier in a performance of Beethoven’s violin concerto.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThe two took to each other immediately, and Joachim was deeply impressed by what he heard of the young Brahms: “…and his compositions display such meaningfulness as I have never before seen in such a young artist,” he is reported to have commented. The following summer Joachim and Brahms spent several weeks together and laid the foundation of a friendship that was to last almost half a century. On the strength of his reputation as a renowned and respected performer, Joachim wrote a number of introductory letters on behalf of Brahms, including one to Robert and Clara Schumann. And in September of that same year Brahms met the Schumanns for the first time.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\nJohannes Brahms’ Sonata no. 3 for piano, opus 5, bears impressive testament to the young composer’s formidable gift as a composer and pianist. “In its heroic scale, unconventional layout, and high quality of thought it was one of the most impressive sonatas since those of Beethoven and Schubert,” writes music critic Calum MacDonald, who further suggests that Brahms wrote his sonata as a response to Liszt’s B minor sonata, which Brahms had heard Liszt play in the summer of 1853. The sonata opus 5 was the last work for solo piano in the genre that Brahms would write.\r\n\r\nThe two Rhapsodies op. 79 were composed in 1879 when Brahms was in his mid-forties and at the peak of his career. These two compositions are the largest free-standing single-movement piano pieces Brahms had written since the Scherzo, op. 4. The Rhapsodies are dedicated to Elizabeth von Herzogenberg, Brahms’ student, and lover.\r\n\r\nFor the Ballad op. 10, no. 1, Brahms was inspired by the Scottish ballad Edward (which he later set for vocal duet in his opus 75).\r\n\r\n\u003cstrong\u003eNils Anders Mortensen - Piano \u003c\/strong\u003e\r\n\u003cdiv class=\"ms-editor-squiggler\" style=\"color: initial;font: initial;background: initial;background-blend-mode: initial;border: initial;border-radius: initial;border-collapse: initial;caption-side: initial;clear: initial;columns: initial;column-fill: initial;column-rule: initial;column-span: initial;cursor: initial;flex: initial;flex-flow: initial;float: initial;height: 0px;letter-spacing: initial;margin: initial;max-height: initial;max-width: initial;min-height: initial;min-width: initial;overflow: initial;padding: initial;text-align: initial;text-decoration: initial;text-indent: initial;text-transform: initial;vertical-align: initial;border-spacing: initial;width: 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