Garrick Ohlsson—Brahms Six Pieces for Piano, Op. 118

Garrick Ohlsson, piano Six Pieces for Piano, Op. 118 composed in 1893 Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897) --- Intermezzo in A Minor Intermezzo in A Major Ballade in G Minor Intermezzo in F Minor Romance in F Major Intermezzo in E-Flat Minor Performed in Kaufmann Concert Hall at the 92nd Street Y on April 28, 2019. Program note by Harry Haskell © 2018: In December 1890, Johannes Brahms presented his publisher with the manuscript of his String Quintet, Op. 111, accompanied by a terse message: “With this slip, bid farewell to notes of mine.” As it turned out, the 57-year-old composer’s announcement of his retirement was premature; he soon got a fresh wind and went on to pen some of his most beguiling music, including the Four Serious Songs and a series of enchanting chamber works for clarinet, the fruit of his late-life friendship with clarinetist Richard Mühlfeld. Nor did Brahms neglect his own instrument. Although he didn’t feel up to writing another major solo work f