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Intermezzo in e minor, Op. 119, No. 2  Play

Alon Goldstein Piano

Recorded on 01/17/2010, uploaded on 01/17/2010

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Intermezzo in e minor (Andantino un poco agitato), Op. 119, No. 2       Johannes Brahms

The three Intermezzi presented here were published with a fourth piece-a rhapsody-to make up Johannes Brahms' opus 119.   The term Intermezzo comes from the 18th Century, where it referred to a comic work presented between acts of a serious opera.  But by Brahms' time, it was an umbrella term for any lyrical, smaller-scale work.  He completed these pieces during his summer holiday in Austria in 1893.  The first intermezzo was written in May and the following pieces finished in June.    Alon Goldstein

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