Pina Napolitano - Brahms the Progressive (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover & Digital booklet | Time - 64:12 minutes | 995 MB
Classical | Label: Odradek Records, Official Digital Download
For acclaimed pianist Pina Napolitano, there is no better way of looking at art and history than through the lens of inverted time, from the present to the past. This seems to be what Schoenberg invites us to do in his essay, “Brahms the Progressive”, in which Brahms, often considered a musical “conservative”, becomes instead the father of modernism. This provides the essence of this album: traversing time in two directions, looking at Brahms from the future of the modern Viennese, and vice versa, looking at the Second Viennese School from the past of Brahmsian romanticism.