Brahms, Johannes - Variations - Kern, Olga (piano)

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Variation form runs right through Brahms’s creative output. The composition of variations on themes from sources as diverse as Handel, Paganini and Hungarian folk music was a significant element in the forging of his personal musical language from the traditions of Bach and Beethoven.

Olga Kern, piano
Johannes Brahms
1 Variations on a Hungarian Song, Op.21, no.2
2 Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op.24
3 Variations on a Theme by Paganini, Op.35, Book I
4 Variations on a Theme by Paganini, Op.35, Book II