Key G minor Tempo Allegro energico Style Romantic Will improve your ✓Fifth-finger strength ✓Chord voicing ✓Phrasing
Brahms wrote his penultimate set of piano works, the Six Piano Pieces Op 118, in 1893. Dedicated to his beloved friend, Clara Schumann, they were written very much with her technique (and now more arthritic hands) in mind. I particularly love playing this G minor Ballade as it possesses a feeling of triumph that is always tinged with melancholy.
The six pieces work perfectly as a set. However, several of them are equally successful when played as single, standalone pieces. Most notably worth choosing for this are the A major Intermezzo (No 2) the final E flat minor Intermezzo and this one – the ever-popular Ballade in G