Brahms: Piano Works / Peter Rösel (Edel, originally Eterna)
Disc 1: Piano Sonata No. 1, Op. 1; Six Piano Pieces, Op. 118
Rösel is one of the finest interpreters of Brahms' piano music that I've ever heard, and this set is a treasure. . . . I love how this first disc is programmed; it leaps from Brahms' first work to his penultimate composition, Alpha to Omega (almost).