Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Sept Fantaisies, op. 116
Quatre pièces pour piano, op. 119

Ivan Eröd (1936-)
Brahms Variations, op. 57

Senka Brankovic, piano

Austrian pianist Senka Brankovic graduated from the Mozarteum in Salzburg and the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, where Hans Leygraf, Hans Petermandl and Heinz Medjimorec were among her teachers; she also holds teaching positions at the Berlin University of Arts as well as the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin. Her upcoming solo album focuses on the cosmos of Johannes Brahms. In addition to the 7 Fantasien, Op. 116 and 4 Klavierstücke, Op. 119, Brankovic presents the Brahms-Variations Op. 57, written by composer Ivan Eröd of Hungarian descent. Composed in 1990 and dedicated to his compatriot Andras Schiff, pianist, the work takes on a theme out of the Intermezzo Op. 116 / No. VI and develops into 13 stylistically most diverse variations. Numerous other citations and appeals to other composers are to be discovered, as movement headings like “(... the bird Arnold as prophet...)” or “Tempo di 'Radetzky Marsch'” indicate.