The musical content of these Brahms piano pieces is reserved, intimate, and elegiac, avoiding sentimentality or virtuosity for its own sake.
Recording & Production
Diana Boyle has a fascination for the recording process, which involves years of preparation, intense recording sessions, and months of score marking and editorial decisions.
Performer Biography
Pianist Diana Boyle won a Foundation Scholarship to the Royal College of Music at age 15 and later studied with Artur Balsam in New York on a Fulbright Scholarship.
Composer Biography
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) wrote the piano pieces on this album, selected from Op. 76, Op. 116, Op. 117, Op. 118, and Op. 119, in the very last period of his creative life.
Composer's Artistic Vision
These Brahms pieces are described as 'Songs Without Words,' each expressing a deep intimacy that a mere title cannot convey, representing a final flourishing of this Romantic form.
Recording & Production
The pieces in this collection were assembled with sensitivity to key changes and subtle mood swings, creating an organic flow whether listening to a few movements or all fourteen.
Performer Biography
Artur Balsam, a pianist and teacher, was a pivotal influence on Diana Boyle's musical life, providing profound musical insight, friendship, and encouragement until his death in 1994.
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