Description
| Brahms: Variations and Fugue on a theme by Handel, Op.24 [25:06] |
| 1 Aria 0:53 5 Variations 16-20 3:53 |
| 2 Variations 1-5 3:51 6 Variations 21-25 3:25 |
| 3 Variations 6-10 3:59 7 Fugue 4:36 |
| 4 Variations 11-15 4:25 |
| Brahms: Waltzes, Op.39 [18:03] |
| 8 No.1 in B major 0:46 16 No. 9 in D minor 0:53 |
| 9 No.2 in E major 1:18 17 No.10 in G major 0:29 |
| 10 No.3 in G# minor 0:38 18 No.11 in B minor 1:12 |
| 11 No.4 in E minor 1:03 19 No.12 in E major 1:49 |
| 12 No.5 in E major 1:12 20 No.13 in C major 0:35 |
| 13 No.6 in C# major 0:53 21 No.14 in A minor 1:10 |
| 14 No.7 in C# minor 2:14 22 No.15 in A major 1:30 |
| 15 No.8 in Bb major 1:05 23 No.16 in D minor 1:08 |
| 24 César Franck: Symphonic Variations 14:25 |
| with the Cleveland Orchestra / George Szell |
| Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini, Op.43 [21:51] |
| 25 Introduction – Variation 1 – Theme – Variations 2-6 3:14 |
| 26 Variations 7-11 4:16 |
| 27 Variations 12-15 3:33 |
| 28 Variations 16-18 5:46 |
| 29 Variations 19-24 5:00 |
| with the Cleveland Orchestra / George Szell |
[Brahms]: “Fleisher has high praise for his Brahms in the USA and this shows why . He is a ‘big’ pianist with a very fresh, lively and intelligent approach to Brahms. His Variations command attention: he manages to play the theme nobly and by pointing its structure, suggests at the same time the possibilities it affords for variation, almost as if those were crystallizing in Brahms’s mind … I have not heard a performance of them so full of purpose and character for a long time. The Waltzes make an admirable foil: Fleisher does them all with sympathy and the brilliant ones as well as one could possibly wish. I thoroughly recommend this” (Gramophone)
