This woman clearly understands expression, dynamics, musical phrasing, and contrast! Beautifully played!!

Anna plays this piece with a depth of interpretation that many pianists miss entirely. Exquisite

There's hunger, poverty, illness, pain, war and suffering but it is All Good. There's Brahms and there's Anna. Just Beautiful. Peace.

I’ve listened to so many recordings of this piece to find someone who played it how I wanted to hear it. My search is over! Anna gets the depth of this piece and is careful to not rush through it like so many others do. So beautifully done, bravo!

Her interpretation of this piece absolutely crushes me. I’ve listened to so many performances of op.118 and felt like many players missed the point. This girl gets it. Her interpretation is both vulnerable and empathetic if that makes sense.

Anna plays this Brahms intermezzo beautifully……music takes over when words cannot describe….🥲

Beautifully played. Thank you for 7 minutes of bliss. ❤

What a Brahms! The nuances and the shades that Anna weaves into her performance of this piece is nothing less than magical and nothing short of heavenly! Anna is a great, great Brahms interpreter!

She captures the bittersweet longing and Nostalgia without being maudlin or indulgent. Two fast and the timelessness is lost.( Gould) Too slow and it goes slack.(Pogorelich) Tempo is just right, especially the middle section and transition into the final phrase. Very well done.

The wonderfulness and comfort of her heartfelt performance are an order of magnitude more awesome

Played with great sensitivity, passion, emotion and from the inner soul - a delight to the ear and heart. Thank you

Played with great professionalism, feeling and by memory!! Simply outstanding skill shown and absolutely beautiful to listen to WOW!!!!

Anna has connected with this work beautifully :-)

BRAHMS! I Love Brahms Music!!!

this is the best recording of this piece that i have found so far. it captures the character of the piece. brava!

When I listen to Anna's Brahms Intermezzo the picture of one of my idols pops in front of my eye and in my soul. The unbelievable Radu Lupu. Anna's reserved attitude, her intense emotional turmoil as evidenced by the tear drops that form in her eyes, and which she tries to hide, and her overall approach to music as being better than words as a means of communication remind me of Radu Lupu Please, I am not comparing performances here. I am noting and appreciating similarities in approaches in interpretation. Anna too seems to be touching a sacred object when she performs.... Anna too, seems to believe that music is a more accurate way oc communication than words.... If it is true that Brahms didn't compose anything that was not good, -- as my ophthalmologis and pianist cousin, Dr. Nazareth Darakjian told me once -- then I wish to add that Anna, with her adding of shades, nuances, and eventually full catharsis, makes this "good" even better...

It's so good Anna, it hurts!

Her interpretation of this piece resonates with my heart and soul. I felt her expression at my core. So beautiful I don't have the words. Well done. ❤

Beautiful sensitive playing. I love how the various voicings come out clearly & yet blend so well together. Thank you

Magnifique, tout en nuances, affetuoso, très tendre et délicat comme certaines pièces de Schumann et Chopin.

She's very very good. I think she is gifted--this is a fabulous performance!!

This feels so effortless and natural. I played this when I was 18 and am inspired to try my hand again. Bravo!

So beautiful, it made me cry. Lovely music.

So Beautiful...

I have never heard a performance of this piece by a woman. Her version is so much more gentle, airy and pastel than those I've heard by men.

Simply wonderful and heartfelt

great! very deep and sensitive.

Thank you so much🥲🥲

Wonderful performance! Best Wishes!

Glorious, truly special!

Brava !!!♥️

wow, really enjoyed this interpretation.

Bravo.

This is so pretty

Best performance of this piece without a doubt

Found this piece from watching the “Jesse Stone” movies.

I’ve seen a lot of comments comparing this to Radu Lupu’s version. My thoughts. This is slower than his - creates a greater sense of longing and almost weeping. Radu does a better job of the left hand voicing. He has slightly wider dynamic range, as his pianissimo is so tender. Their takes on the triplet sections are very different. And I suppose this is where it’s controversial. She breaks from the pace with more of a virtuosic take with tempo and power. Radu keeps the dynamism, voicing, and subtlety of the rest of the piece. As a whole, his is therefore more cohesive. But Anna’s version “pops” more in the triplet section. Whichever you prefer is purely subjective.

I'm sorry Anna. I wrote a comment drunk. Radu Lupu was an incomparable interpreter of Brahms, but your playing is also beautiful. Don't be angry, I'm ashamed of my stupidity. You interpret Brahms fantastically….

Her rubato approach is very like my own but her voicings far outstrip anything I could do. Nicely done.

tres tres bien bravo !

You can practice at my house if you like. I have champagne. 😎

W piece

Ukrainian American, and terrific....

Tom Selleck would like it

Wonderful performance. It could have sounded even better had the piano been voiced more carefully.

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The homophonic middle section: what’s the hurry?!

I'm sorry, but compared to Radu Lupu, this interpretation is amateurish.