Johannes Brahms - Piano Sonata No. 3

- Composer: Johannes Brahms (7 May 1833 -- 3 April 1897) - Performer: Peter Rösel - Year of recording: 1974 Piano Sonata No. 3 in F minor, Op. 5, written in 1853. 00:00 - I. Allegro maestoso 09:46 - II. Andante. Andante espressivo - Andante molto 19:07 - III. Scherzo. Allegro energico avec trio 23:21 - IV. Intermezzo (Rückblick / Regard en arrière) Andante molto 26:47 - V. Finale. Allegro moderato ma rubato At the age of 20, on his third and final try, Brahms established himself as a master of a genre that, decades earlier, Beethoven infused with a new level of personal expression and, indeed, epochally transformed: the solo piano sonata. In terms of both form and expression, Brahms' Piano Sonata No. 3 in F minor is conceived on a grand scale. - The first movement, marked Allegro maestoso (though many pianists seem to play it Adagio maestoso, Rösel gets the right tempo here), indeed opens majestically, with a theme marked by great