BRAHMS : Four Hand Piano Music • 1 (Silke-Thora Matthies · Christian Köhn) (1995) APE (image+.cue), lossless

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Variations in E-Flat Major on a theme by Schumann, Op. 23
16 Waltzes, Op. 39
Souvenir de la Russie, Anh. IV/6
15 Neue Liebeslieder Waltzes, Op. 65a
Piano – Christian Köhn, Silke-Thora Matthies
naxos

BRAHMS : Four Hand Piano Music • 2 (Silke-Thora Matthies · Christian Köhn) (1997) APE (image+.cue), lossless

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
21 Hungarian Dances, WoO 1
Liebeslieder Waltzes, Op. 52a (arr. piano 4-hands)
Piano – Christian Köhn, Silke-Thora Matthies
naxos

BRAHMS : Four Hand Piano Music • 3 (Silke-Thora Matthies · Christian Köhn) (1998) APE (image+.cue), lossless

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Sonata for 2 Pianos in F Minor, Op. 34bis
Variations on a Theme by Joseph Haydn, Op. 56b, "St Anthony Variations" (vers. for 2 pianos)
Piano – Christian Köhn, Silke-Thora Matthies
naxos

BRAHMS : Four Hand Piano Music • 4 (Silke-Thora Matthies · Christian Köhn) (1999) APE (image+.cue), lossless

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Serenade No. 1 in D Major, Op. 11 (arr. piano 4-hands)
Serenade No. 2 in A Major, Op. 16 (arr. piano 4-hands)
Piano – Christian Köhn, Silke-Thora Matthies
naxos

BRAHMS : Four Hand Piano Music • 5 (Silke-Thora Matthies · Christian Köhn) (1999) APE (image+.cue), lossless

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
A German Requiem, Op. 45 (arr. piano 4-hands)
Piano – Christian Köhn, Silke-Thora Matthies
naxos

BRAHMS : Four Hand Piano Music • 6 (Silke-Thora Matthies · Christian Köhn) (2000) APE (image+.cue), lossless

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 68 (arr. piano 4-hands)
Triumphlied, Op. 55 (arr. piano 4-hands)
Piano – Christian Köhn, Silke-Thora Matthies
naxos 

BRAHMS : Four Hand Piano Music • 7 (Silke-Thora Matthies · Christian Köhn) (2002) APE (image+.cue), lossless

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 73 (arr. piano 4-hands)
Symphony No. 3 in F Major, Op. 90 (version for piano 4 hands)
Piano – Christian Köhn, Silke-Thora Matthies
naxos

BRAHMS : Four Hand Piano Music • 8 (Silke-Thora Matthies · Christian Köhn) (2003) APE (image+.cue), lossless

 Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Symphony No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 98 (arr. piano 4-hands)
Tragic Overture, Op. 81 (arr. piano 4-hands)
Piano – Christian Köhn, Silke-Thora Matthies
naxos

BRAHMS : Four Hand Piano Music • 9 (Silke-Thora Matthies · Christian Köhn) (2003) APE (image+.cue), lossless

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Piano Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 15 (arr. piano 4-hands)
Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80 (arr. piano 4-hands)
Piano – Christian Köhn, Silke-Thora Matthies
naxos

BRAHMS : Four Hand Piano Music • 10 (Silke-Thora Matthies · Christian Köhn) (2003) APE (image+.cue), lossless

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
String Quartet in C Minor, Op. 51, No. 1 (arr. piano 4-hands)
String Quartet in A Minor, Op. 51, No. 2 (arr. piano 4-hands)
Piano – Christian Köhn, Silke-Thora Matthies
naxos

BRAHMS : Four Hand Piano Music • 11 (Silke-Thora Matthies · Christian Köhn) (2004) APE (image+.cue), lossless

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)

String Quartet No. 3 in B-Flat Major, Op. 67 (arr. piano 4-hands)
String Quintet No. 1 in F Major, Op. 88 (arr. piano 4-hands)
Piano – Christian Köhn, Silke-Thora Matthies
naxos

BRAHMS : Four Hand Piano Music • 12 (Silke-Thora Matthies · Christian Köhn) (2004) APE (image+.cue), lossless

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
String Quintet No. 2 in G Major, Op. 111 (arr. piano 4-hands)
Piano Quartet No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 25 (arr. piano 4-hands)
Piano – Christian Köhn, Silke-Thora Matthies
naxos 

BRAHMS : Four Hand Piano Music • 13 (Silke-Thora Matthies · Christian Köhn) (2005) APE (image+.cue), lossless

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
String Sextet No. 1 in B-Flat Major, Op. 18 (arr. piano 4-hands)
String Sextet No. 2 in G Major, Op. 36 (arr. piano 4-hands)
Piano – Christian Köhn, Silke-Thora Matthies
naxos

BRAHMS : Four Hand Piano Music • 14 (Silke-Thora Matthies · Christian Köhn) (2005) APE (image+.cue), lossless

 Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)

Piano Quartet No. 2 in A Major, Op. 26 (arr. piano 4-hands)

5 Waltzes, Op. 39 (version for 2 pianos)

Piano – Christian Köhn, Silke-Thora Matthies

BRAHMS : Four Hand Piano Music • 15 (Silke-Thora Matthies · Christian Köhn) (2006) APE (image+.cue), lossless

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Symphony No. 3 in F Major, Op. 90 (arr. 2 pianos 4-hands)
Symphony No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 98 (arr. 2 pianos 4-hands)
Piano – Christian Köhn, Silke-Thora Matthies
About this Recording

BRAHMS : Four Hand Piano Music • 16 (Silke-Thora Matthies · Christian Köhn) (2006) APE (image+.cue), lossless

Although Brahms arranged many of his own works for piano, either played through to friends or published in this form for a wider public, he also turned his attention to the music of other composers. Brahms’ piano duet version of Schumann’s Piano Quintet is so effective that it almost rivals the original, criticised by some at the time for its overwhelming piano part. The transcription of his friend Joachim’s Hamlet Overture evokes all the drama of Shakespeare’s play. By arranging twenty Ländler for piano duet, Brahms was among those who helped to foster Schubert’s posthumous reputation. Naxos

R. Schumann - Piano Quartet in E-Flat Major, Op. 47 (arr. piano duet), Anh. Ia/8

J. Joachim - Hamlet Overture, Op. 4 (arr. piano duet), Anh. Ia/3

F. Schubert - 20 Ländler, D. 366 and D. 814 (arr. piano duet), Anh. Ia/6

Piano – Christian Köhn, Silke-Thora Matthies

BRAHMS : Four Hand Piano Music • 17 (Silke-Thora Matthies · Christian Köhn) (2006) FLAC (image+.cue), lossless

Brahms was an accomplished pianist, whose output for the piano spanned his entire life. In addition to his solo works he made four-hand piano arrangements of many of his orchestral, chamber and vocal scores, to give them greater accessibility. The great, monumental First Piano Concerto, which made no concessions to contemporary taste, was conceived originally as a sonata for two pianos. In this recording we hear the version of the Concerto for piano duo – two pianos. The version for piano duet (one piano, four hands) naxos

The Demetrius Overture was recorded using the manuscript with the signature “Nachlass Joseph Joachim, Musikalien, Nr. 22”, kept by the Staats and Hamburg University Library “Carl von Ossietzky”.

Piano Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 15 (arr. 2 pianos, 4-hands)

J. Joachim - Demetrius Overture, Op. 6 (arr. 2 pianos, 4-hands), Anh. Ia/4

Piano – Christian Köhn, Silke-Thora Matthies

BRAHMS : Four Hand Piano Music • 18 (Christian Köhn · Silke-Thora Matthies) (2013) FLAC (image+.cue), lossless

Brahms often produced four-handed piano arrangements of his orchestral, vocal and chamber music, following the practice of the time, which made his works more easily available to the general public. The final volume of this highly acclaimed series features the monumental Piano Concerto No 2 in B flat major which Brahms played through with the composer Ignaz Brüll in a two-piano arrangement prior to its première in Pest in 1881. The work’s scale and grandeur were soon internationally admired. Brahms also arranged works by his great friend, the violinist Joseph Joachim, among them the dramatic, sonata-form Overture to Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Op 7. Naxos

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-Flat Major, Op. 83 (version for 2 pianos)

Joseph Joachim  (1831-1907)
Johannes Brahms, arranger(s)
Shakespeare's Heinrich IV (Henry IV), Op. 7 (arr. J. Brahms for 2 pianos)

Piano – Christian Köhn, Silke-Thora Matthies