Brahms Rhapsody Op 119 No 4 in E Flat Major Rubinstein Rec 1941
“The composer whose music was first to make the biggest impression upon the young Rubinstein was not Chopin but Brahms. Rubinstein first heard the music of Brahms when he was about thirteen. On pages 33 and 34 of his memoirs My Young Years, he writes, “It is impossible to describe my enthusiasm as I heard this music—-From that day on, Brahms became my obsession. I had to know everything he had written. I would read with ecstasy anything of Brahms which fell into my hands. I would buy his music on credit; I would have stolen money to get it!” There is no other composer that Rubinstein mentions in his memoirs that he describes with such fervor. However, it is interesting to note that considering the near completeness of his recordings of Chopin’s works, Rubinstein only recorded four complete solo piano compositions of Brahms. They are Op. 5, Op. 10, Op. 79 and Op. 117.”
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