Brahms: Chamber Works Zofia Antes & Aleksandra Batog

• Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897): 6 Pieces for Piano, Op. 118:
• 1 6 Pieces for Piano, Op. 118: No. 1 in A Minor, Intermezzo 02:03
• 2 6 Pieces for Piano, Op. 118: No. 2 in A Major, Intermezzo 06:52
• 3 6 Pieces for Piano, Op. 118: No. 3 in G Minor, Ballade 04:11
• 4 6 Pieces for Piano, Op. 118: No. 4 in F Minor, Intermezzo 03:19
• 5 6 Pieces for Piano, Op. 118: No. 5 in F Major, Romanze 04:19
• 6 6 Pieces for Piano, Op. 118: No. 6 in E-Flat Minor, Intermezzo 06:07
• Clarinet Sonata No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 120 No. 1 (Version for Viola):
• 7 Clarinet Sonata No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 120 No. 1 (Version for Viola): I. Allegro appassionato 07:22
• 8 Clarinet Sonata No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 120 No. 1 (Version for Viola): II. Andante un poco adagio 05:37
• 9 Clarinet Sonata No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 120 No. 1 (Version for Viola): III. Allegretto grazioso 04:14
• 10 Clarinet Sonata No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 120 No. 1 (Version for Viola): IV. Vivace 05:13
• Total Runtime 49:17

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Sechs Klavierstucke, Op. 118 by Johannes Brahms is one of the most difficult works for an artist to perform in terms of interpretation. The mood of sadness, reflection and melancholy, which runs through almost all the links of the cycle, prompts both the performer and the listener to reflect. The Sonata for Piano and Viola in F minor, Op. 120 No. 1, coming from the late period of Brahms' works too, is also a demanding composition. The piece contains elements of the classical sonata form, but also harmonically advanced harmonic and melodic sections typical of the late Romanticism. Both works by Brahms, which you can listen to on the album of Zofia Antes and Aleksandra Batog, reveal a series of musical phenomena symptomatic only for the late works of the composer.

Zofia Antes, piano
Aleksandra Batog, viola

Zofia Antes
Was a student of Ditlinda Czyż at the Stanislaw Moniuszko State Music Lycee in Bielsko-Biala. She completed with distinction her piano studies under the guidance of prof. Czeslaw Stanczyk and prof. Pawel Skrzypek at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice, after receiving prestigious scholarships of Frederic Chopin Society, the Ministry of Culture and Polish Piano Festival in Slupsk, she was the first prize winner of the All Polish Frederic Chopin Competition in Warsaw in 1997. She continued her post-graduate chamber music studies with prof. Maria Szwajger-Kulakowska in Katowice.

Zofia Antes has performed numerous concerts as a soloist and a chamber musician in Poland. She has also played piano concerts of Mozart, Chopin, Schumann, Rachmaninow and Kisielewski with many of the philharmonic orchestras in Poland conducted by Tomasz Bugaj, Jerzy Salwarowski, Zygmunt Rychert, Slawek Wroblewski. In 1996 she had her debut in the USA as a soloist, performing Chopin, Mozart, Beethoven and Schumann (recitals, piano concerts) as well as chamber music programme (Brahms).

In 1999 she started a piano pedagogy activity in the Frederic Chopin State School of Music in Warsaw which she continues succesfully as a teacher of many prize-winners of Polish and international competitions. In 2007 she got her doctorate in Bach’s articulation, working as an adjunct at the Music Institute of Warminsko-Mazurski University in Olsztyn since then. Zofia Antes has been a lecturer of the Warsaw Piano Workshop and Gold Country Piano Institute in California for many years.

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