Thank you for making me feel special 😇

Aye! Credit where it’d due goes a long way to healing the ills of the world 🌍

Pure, alluvial Brahms, huh? Gorgeous.

​@@prototropo He has a tendency of doing that, huh? This opening, the beginning of the second piano concerto, the first few measures of the G Major Violin Sonata ❤❤

Brahms did not write "accompaniments ". The piano is a independent partner.

the most beautiful - the whole is is pleasantly engaging, with the intro theme being the most beautiful

This is the revised 1889 version.

yeah but what about piano sonatas like 3rd sonata op. 5? insane work, extremely motivictly coherent and expressively deep and mature... no idea how Brahms wrote it while being 19, without revisiting it after years

@@piotrzuchowski6884 I do not dispute that; it's just that there are textures, and a certain sense of "autumnal" restraint/"stillness", that Brahms uses in his late works that doesn't appear (or is not as pronounced) as in his earlier works (or really anyone else's works at all). Overall, Brahm's earlier works feel more "free-spirited", and I think his late works have a more "mysterious" or "ambiguous" quality. May be interesting to compare this work with its previous incarnation: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/e6xxg9x7z7feYGg.html&ab_channel=lecahierdupianiste.

@@piotrzuchowski6884 The early sonatas are great for sure, but they are nevertheless different from the later works.

You're right that it's an early work but it's also a late work. Brahms wrote opus 8, then revisited it (he did this with a lot of his work and God help us if he'd had his way he would have destroyed a lot of his most brilliant compositions). He sort of kept the first movement, altered the second, made enormous changes to the third and pretty much tossed the last movement and rewrote it altogether. I first played this piece when I was a teenager (I'm a cellist) and was in a trance for days. I have a love affair with Brahms' chamber music. When all the other girls had crushes on celebrities and rock bands, I was fantasizing going back in time and playing his cello sonatas for him before he wrote them. On the other hand, my love of Brahms has lasted past the craziness of youth and I must say that there is nothing like love after the hormones subside.

I only care about the piano the others are just background noise

She's Korean-German violinist Clara Jumi Kang. You should definitely check out her performances on youtube

Fuerza arrebatadora... Precisamente! Es imposible encontrar una descripción mejor. No había podido dar con las palabras exactas sino hasta ahora!

that's such a perfect description! that's how I always viewed his music and glad to see someone else "gets it" too.

@@GreenTea4 Yes, I first thought about it after reading a comment on a similar quartet style piece by a lesser known composer; because one comment said it was as good as Brahms. The uploader replied and said that wasn't true, it was indeed very good but not near Brahms. I agreed the piece was incredibly good and was confused why Brahms would be rated higher. So I listened to this piece and realized why, it's the imperfections that make Brahms great. Starting the measure on the wrong beats, weird transitions, melodies which don't fit or in other ways feel "clumsy". It kind of reminds me of hearing a story, the other composer is like reading a Wikipedia article and Brahms is like having your friend retell their experience. They speak somewhat badly, they forgot some parts and phrase some things badly, but they include jokes and tell things from their perspective, which makes it special. Also, Brahms usually feels more "genuine", some composers include the craziest most romantic, most epic codas with like 12 B7 chords in a row in FFF to resolve to their E major chord. Meanwhile here Brahms is just like: "here are my naked emotions, take them or leave them"

@@kallehed6330 yes and yes! also can you tell me who was the other lesser known composer?

@@GreenTea4 maybe, it was about a month ago, so I don't remember, but I will update if I find it!

@@kallehed6330 I bet it was my comment on Hendrik Witte's Quartet 😁 I am proud to eat crow on that comment all this time later!

I think the person just hit the wrong note

Yes. Underrated key. Chopin has three of the most beautiful nocturnes in it

​@@thinkOfMeAsAClassicalMusicianTchaikovsky’s Swan Lake is ended in B major.

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오늘 이 레파투어로 공연했었어요

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@@superblockkim4129 이 너무 조아요

Mendelssohn’s Italian symphony also starts in the major and ends in the minor.

jdj830 I didn’t know that, haven’t heard that symphony before.

@@caterscarrots3407 Schubert’s Impromptu Op. 90 No. 2 and Brahms’ Rhapsody Op. 119 No. 4 are another few examples of pieces ending in the parallel minor.

Brahms does this with his 3rd Symphony too

@@GreenTea4 No he doesn’t.

I actually liked "the mistake" better than the actual thing haha

@Constantinos Aspris oh, you're right

@Constantinos Aspris For sure it was a mistake. Multiplied by 2. The pianist had to play broader to fix that.

Not a mistake, it's a genuine interpretive connection between the notes, simply using a passing note. The notes create a real divide between them without that passing note, and I feel it doesn't quite fit without it. Just my opinion.

That wasn’t a mistake lmao….

Ah yes, that's an issue I only noticed about a month after I uploaded this video. Unfortunately there's nothing I can do to fix it without remaking the entire video.

In 15:55, oof

no idea man

So did I, for amother student's Graduate recital...thank goodness we were all great sight readers...extra rehearsals would have used our solo performance time.

Thank you so much for your observation. It is still a constant irritation to us pianists.

Lmao

He wasn't the purist of form at this stage of his career. I'd say by the time of the opus 23 Handel variations does he become more strict with form.

2악장 처음 피아노 왜저럼..?? 저거 틀린거 맞죠? ?

@@duncanrichardson2167 못 갖춘 마디 빼고 4마디부터 8마디까지 피아노 부분이요

@@kateliufan I regret that I cannot read your presumed non-western language. I find it very interesting that western music is appreciated in non-western cultures.

ㅋㅋㅋㅋ진짜 음도 틀리고 리듬까지 살짝 절기까지.... 라이브 레코딩이라서 실전의 실수가 그대로ㅜ

@@user-6189 ㅇㅎㅇㅎ ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ 전 또 분명 제가 생각하는 게 맞는데 잘 못 알고있나 했어요.... ㅋㅋㅋ

I'm well aware of this. This is a live recording, so not all of the notes are perfect.

@@invertedninthchord yh every one makes mistakes and it is ok because it is about the music

@@invertedninthchord eh! don't listen to her. It was a marvelous performance of a great work.

dude 💀💀💀

The pianist played the whole piece and this is all you have to say? Yes, people make mistakes especially on live, so what? You never make mistakes in playing? Why did you feel the need to write "WTF"? I don't think that made you any more superior or perfect in music. We need to find value in ourselves and others by being appreciative of intrinsic values, not by stepping on each other.

It's not always about how complex you make it... And i find the harmonization absolutely tasteful and yet simple, just what it takes to make it expressive and luscious. This opening sounds divine to me, one of my personal favorite to be honest.

I made this video years ago when I was much less experienced making these videos; watch this more recent version instead (and with a higher quality performance!): kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fr2lrNWGy5rOh30.html