For me the moment just before the end of the 1st mvt - c.31 minutes in (I am not a musician) is the key one - a passage of the utmost poignancy & sadness .... yet in most performances the soloist is drowned out by the woodwind .... completely idiotic and infuriating.

Did you notice how when she started to describe the trill her finger started inadvertently moving in imitation of it?

Super interesting! I was in the Texas Music Festival orchestra in summer of 1995 and Ms. Lack was the soloist playing the Sibelius violin concerto. She was still good then, even in her 70s. She was also the teacher of my violin teacher’s son, the extremely gifted Frank Huang (now concertmaster of the NY Phil)

Helene Grimaud is in the same league...

Oh cmon dude, really...

+BU982T what's so funny? :D

+Smilthy I wouldn't speculate that much as to why they do, since many of us loving Brahms music feel the same way - It happens both Janine & Helene have found a fantastic way to articulate those wonderful feelings into words. I've read somewhere that Helene's fond with Brahms goes back to her infancy when she heard Piano Concerto No1 for the first time and immediately fell in love with the piece - It seems the same type of experience happened to Janine. Both amazing artists and women in all the sense of the word.

+hufemeve Thank you for the feedback, I deeply appreciate the time you took to explain this in such a detailed way. I agree with you 100% even though I am not that familiar with Brahm's music. I surely will get to know him after this.

+Smilthy He was imagining himself to be Brahms for a second: Two hot women talking about him in a passionate manner.

I think it is because Jansen and Grimaud are both very feminine, not just physically but also in their verbal and musical expression. And Brahms was a composer whose works show his feelings in a very honest way. Yes, he was gruff. And yes, he crafted his works with great precision. But in the end his music is very dramatic, emotional, and forthright. And Brahms loved women. Maybe not in a Don Juan sense, but in an emotional sense. He loved his mother deeply, and he loved Clara Schumann. But he never had a woman for his own. I think the wistful longing that is one of the strongest traits of Brahms comes from this unfulfilled yearning for consumate love. It's not surprising that sensitive women would respond to these feelings.

Oh no, that's the double bass!

That's hilarious😅

+Abhinav Madduri and Prokofiev concerto 1, Bartok concerto 2?

Oh I hope. David Garrett Will play the Sibelius for the first time I'm so excited

Yep, you've got to stay as relaxed as possible and maybe practise your fingered octaves and tenths.

I resoedtfully disagree. Janine's radiance, her eyes, the timbre of her voice, her obvious modestly are all aspects of her true nature - as is her femininity. Of course one can speak about someone and reduce them to an object of lust - be they a woman or a man. This is obvious. But to speak about Janine's art and ignore her womanhood is missing an essential element of that art. Watch the documentary Janine of Paul Cohen. Both aspects of the role of sexual tension are poignantly illustrated in that film. Compare how Julian Rachlin speaks about her and how she is marketed by the magazine people.

Yes, because it is not good.

Ha never put that together the term Strat . . . I wonder if Leo Fender named the Stratocaster inspired by the name Stradivarius. 1. Broadcaster. 2. Telecaster 3. Stratocaster and the P Bass somewhere in there.