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Brahms: Theme with Variations in D Minor, Op. 18b (Arr. of 2nd Movement of the String Sextet Op. 18)
About This Song
About "Brahms: Theme with Variations in D Minor, Op. 18b (Arr. of 2nd Movement of the String Sextet Op. 18)" by Daniel Barenboim
Brahms's own arrangement of his String Sextet's slow movement becomes a piano confession. Barenboim teases out the theme's autumnal warmth, each variation a leaf turning from gold to rust. The music breathes with chamber intimacy, yet the piano's solitary voice lends it a poignant loneliness, like a memory revisited in an empty room.