Brahms - Piano Quartet No.1 in G minor, Op.25
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- Опубликовано: 4 сен 2019
- Johannes Brahms (7 May 1833 - 3 April 1897)
Piano Quartet No.1 in G minor, Op.25
Fauré Quartet (piano quartet): Dirk Mommertz (piano), Erika Geldsetzer (violin), Sascha Frömbling (viola) and Konstantin Heidrich (cello)
Original recording: • Brahms Klavierquartett...
0:11 - I. Allegro
12:53 - II. Intermezzo: Allegro ma non troppo - Trio: Animato
20:16 - III. Andante con moto
29:55 - IV. Rondo alla Zingarese: Presto
Johannes Brahms was a German composer, pianist, and conductor of the Romantic period. Born in Hamburg into a Lutheran family, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria. His reputation and status as a composer are such that he is sometimes grouped with Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven as one of the "Three Bs" of music, a comment originally made by the nineteenth-century conductor Hans von Bülow.
Brahms composed for symphony orchestra, chamber ensembles, piano, organ, and voice and chorus. A virtuoso pianist, he premiered many of his own works. He worked with some of the leading performers of his time, including the pianist Clara Schumann and the violinist Joseph Joachim (the three were close friends). Many of his works have become staples of the modern concert repertoire. An uncompromising perfectionist, Brahms destroyed some of his works and left others unpublished.
Brahms has been considered, by his contemporaries and by later writers, as both a traditionalist and an innovator. His music is firmly rooted in the structures and compositional techniques of the Classical masters. While many contemporaries found his music too academic, his contribution and craftsmanship have been admired by subsequent figures as diverse as Arnold Schoenberg and Edward Elgar. The diligent, highly constructed nature of Brahms's works was a starting point and an inspiration for a generation of composers. Embedded within his meticulous structures, however, are deeply romantic motifs.
In 1861, Brahms completed his first piano quartet which mixed reviews by friends and critics alike, but has remained alive in the concert world. Throughout the 20th century, its popularity continued to grow as the listening public came to recognize Brahms as perhaps the quintessential master of Romantic chamber music. His first quartet for piano, violin, viola, and cello harkens back to the music of Schubert, one of Brahms' favorite composers, as well as forward with inventiveness that inspired composers in the next century, especially Schoenberg. While his contemporaries were writing music that was an obvious break with the past, particularly Wagner, Brahms wrote in the old forms, which hung together with a pleasing and deceptive looseness, as did the works of Schubert. Scratching the surface of this piano quartet reveals that the themes and textures do not hang together loosely at all. Everything is built out of thematic material, which is without precedent in chamber music. It is the kernel of what Schoenberg described as "developing variation" and prepares the way for atonality, which coheres only when all the material is in reference to itself. The G minor quartet is pure clarity in a way that did not exist before Brahms. This was also the first chamber work of Brahms' that he played in public.
The first movement of the G minor quartet has the sweetness of heroic themes in repose, but it also simmers, at least in a good performance. In bad renditions of this work, the tension is ignored in favor of an empty niceness, which is certainly to be avoided. The second movement, an Intermezzo, is introspective and full of musical inquiry among the strings. Themes spread out searching for something, with a beautiful and mysterious effect. The Andante third movement has a dreamy grandness, which is normally an effect reserved for orchestral forces. The Hungarian, Rondo finale is pure fire, blasting through rousing themes with a concerted vigor.
Many generations after the work's inception, it has withstood the public's initial reservations. It should also be pointed out that other influential musicians thought it was pure genius. One great violinist regarded it as proof that Brahms was Beethoven's musical heir. There were many such reactions.
Schoenberg liked it enough to orchestrate it. He gave his reasons for doing so as follows:
1. "I like the piece."
2. "It is seldom played."
3. "It is always played very badly; the better the pianist, the louder he plays and you hear nothing from the strings. I wanted to hear everything...."
Sources:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johanne...
www.allmusic.com/composition/...
Project files:
drive.google.com/open?id=1bz6... 
Видеоклипы
0:11 - I. Allegro
12:53 - II. Intermezzo: Allegro ma non troppo - Trio: Animato
20:16 - III. Andante con moto
29:55 - IV. Rondo alla Zingarese: Presto
1:16 WHOA THATS FREACKIN' EPIC
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The CRISPIEST rondo rendition on youtube. The violin and viola grace note game was very strong.
Do you perhaps mean crispest? Or do you really find it crispy, like a burnt bit of pastry?
Joshing aside, it really is a very good performance! Excellent recording quality and the playing is indeed very crisp and fresh.
That's part of the reason why I chose this recording! :)
This rendition of the Rondò is played with a really good ALLA ZINGARESE style :)
30:57 my favorite part. brahms was in that prok pc 2 scherzo mood
Can never get enough of Brahms!
Amen 🙏
one of the greatest compositions of all time
The rondo is a gem.
A magnificent work and performance. Thank you for the background essay above. My only regret is that I only became aware of this piece more that 40 years after I began to love Brahms symphonic works.
I love this performance! The Schoenberg orchestration of this piece is absolutely beautiful too.
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Bach, beethoven, schubert.......brahms, non è solo una conseguenza temporale, ma un filo divino!!
Every time I listen, I get captivated by the piano theme from the end of the first movement...
Stunning performance!
Das Stück gehört zu meinen Allzeit Favoriten und da ist es meiner Meinung nach Brahms gelungen den Übervater Beethoven energetisch zu überbieten.
Über die Jahrzehnte ein paar mal live gehört und der Konzertsaal tobt danach immer
Piano theme 13:54 to 14:08. Beautiful
He wishes
Thanks for your share Pentameron ! Good Work From Brahms also !
Wow, this is SO well played!
2:50 minor mode exposition (G-) modulating to the major dominant (D+) relatively rare.
What a wonderful performance!!!
So outstanding, so excellent!!!!
Beautiful!
I love this quartet! It is perfect, in all aspects
Theme starting at 10:30 is absolutely brilliant
As someone else below pointed out: "The CRISPIEST rondo rendition on youtube". I have to agree! I was even going to use that adjective myself - finally I could hear every grace note in "Zingarese"!
Great piece!
Magnificent
Wonderful piece. Brahms also arranged this Quartet for piano four hands.
BRAVÍSSIMO ! ! ! it's chilling
Extremely interesting comments, undoubtedly, worthy of this masterpiece. I would like to add that, another noted member of J. Brahms' inner circle of friends/colleagues was also Johann Strauß II. The two men felt a mutual appreciation and admiration for each other's creations.
Parts remind of something Shostakovich would write
I get that same feeling! I first noticed this in the 4th movement of piano quintet when it goes Allegro and the cello states the new theme... Brahms really does look forward
14:00 from the piano 🎶
I like the structure
Check out also Shoenberg's orchestration of this work for full orchestra.
32:41; 35:13
10:15 so incredible.....
22:50 Tchaikovsky piano concerto 1
32:42 Reminds me so much of Charles-Valentin Alkans "Chapeau bas!" (enters about 2:30-2:40 into his piece). Anyone knows who was first?
Never mind, Alkan composed it in 1872
I agree with Schoenberg’s third comment.
22:50 Tchaikovsky piano concerto
This is a remarkably fine performance, excellent in every way. Moreover I am impressed with the sound quality, that is to say the engineering. Would it be possible to find out where this was recorded and with what personnel? Thanks for posting this superb interpretation!
Here's RUclips Music's original recording:
ruclips.net/p/OLAK5uy_l1I82Ks8HzEocfPNV40sebZwSoZhmyi8A
See the playlist video descriptions for the credits:
"Producer, Recording Producer: Pauline Heister"
"Studio Personnel, Recording Engineer: Martin Litauer"
"Studio Personnel, Engineer: Gerd Finkenstein"
Thank you very much! Deutsche Gramophone, I see. No wonder.
35:30
37:20
These are the only performers so far who've gotten the tempo just right. Too many others keep slowing it down at points for "effect" and it just throws me out of the piece
Really good balance between the strings and the piano. Who is the pianist?
The pianist is Dirk Hommertz in Fauré Quartett:
www.faurequartett.de/en/the-quartet-en
I hope that youtube realises that I will not buy a single one of the 6 or 7 products I've been bombarded with for the last half hour, on general principal
33:15
Hemiola, thy name is Brahms!
1:48
Awesomeness at 36:00
3:33
I AM SICK A HIM!!!!! This is why I love Brahms so much...... UGHH!!!!! OMG!!!
23:50
Meno Presto 32:25
0:12
3:24
29:55 35:30
¿Por qué el cuarto movimiento suena tanto a Shostakovich?
¿Por que Shostakovich suena tanto al cuarto movimiento?
12:53
24:38
25:13
29:55
34:26
This is so difficult to play :(
Which part?
@@Hajjmusic_ Well at 34:49 it's pretty hard to play quickly quietly, even if the section _is_ short-lived.
Chi è il pianista?
I don't speak your language, but the pianist is Dirk Hommertz from Fauré Quartet:
www.faurequartett.de/en/the-quartet-en
36:16
2:37
Schoenberg turned it into a symphony.
Not really a symphony. More like an arrangement/transcription.
Schoenberg was ugly and made stupid music.
@@aperson6934 To each his/her own.
@@aperson6934 Hey, don't bring his looks into this!
(Also, have you heard his tonal stuff? Beautiful)
@@klop4228 Not really, it's just that it appears beautiful next to his dissonant music. I find it derivative and unmemorable myself. The first 20 seconds or so of Verklarte Nacht is good though.
adverts every few minutes?
What is the matter with you people?!
Melodies are not particularly distinguished, and like all Brahms' early works, this one is rather aimless. If you want to hear Brahms in full flower, try the opus 60.
My contention has always been that only one percent of the human race is truly musical
32:41
36:16
20:16
23:50
32:25
24:04