Johannes Brahms, Herzlich tut mich verlangen, organ chorale prelude op.122 no.10: the organ lesson
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- Опубликовано: 10 фев 2025
- Learning to play Brahms on the organ, using the chorale preludes opus 122. Performance starts • Johannes Brahms, Herzl...
For background information about Brahms performance style see the episode on Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen ( • Johannes Brahms, Es is... ).
This episode was recorded in the Stadtkirche Neustrelitz in Germany (Grüneberg, 1893). For details of the organ, see neustrelitz-ev... We will discuss the organ in more detail in another episode.
The series is presented by Dr Tim Rishton www.rishton.eu
A wonderful education indeed!
I sincerely hope your lessons remain online forever. Maybe keep the uploaded video files in case RUclips comes to an end?
Thank you so much! Yes, it's a good point about RUclips . I have kept most of the original files and I'll make a point of storing them safely just in case. - thanks for the suggestion! Tim
These mini-lessons are so appreciated!
I'm so glad! Thanks for the encouragement. Tim
06:41 "Molto legato" I find myself doing this with Brahms Op 117-2 Intermezzo in Bb minor on the piano. I naturally want to extend certain notes beyond their written time to create a clear expansive solo-in-a-cathedral-like effect, without the general smudging-of-everything of the sustain pedal.
(I don't recall doing this in any other piece ever, so interesting that Brahms seems to want the same in this Herzlich).
Yes, I'm sure you're right with the Intermezzo - that's a really good point. I think it's a performance practice that is largely forgotten and will need to be re-discovered by some future Dart/Donnington-equivalent! We tend to be trained to be very exact in organ playing - pick up those fingers - so that it's really counter-intuitive to deliberately overrun notes. But it seems to be called for in several of these Brahms preludes. There's a research topic for somebody ... Tim
I think Brahms had Bach's "Ich ruf zu dir" in mind.
You may very well be right: lots of similarities in the figuration. Tim