Maria Gabrys, the pianist on this album, has won numerous awards, including first prize at the Beethoven Competition in Hradec and the Edwin Fischer Competition in Lucerne.
Composer's Artistic Vision
The late piano works on this album share common features like light and shadow effects, meditativeness, and spirituality, reflecting the composers' creative maturity and impending death.
Recording & Production
This album features late piano works by Franz Schubert, Johannes Brahms, and Fryderyk Chopin, recorded on a historic Blüthner grand piano from 1874.
Composer Biography
In the last two years of his life, marked by illness, Fryderyk Chopin composed very little: one waltz, three mazurkas, and a largo.
Composition History
Chopin's Mazurka F minor op. 68 No. 4 is his last composition and remained incomplete.
Composition History
Schubert's Three Piano Pieces were published 40 years after his death by Johannes Brahms, a composer also featured on this album.
Composition History
Schubert's Three Piano Pieces Op. posth. D946 were intended as a sequel to his Impromptus Op.90 and Op.142, but he died before completing the cycle.
