Johannes Brahms, Herzlich tut mich erfreuen, organ chorale prelude op.122 no.4: the organ lesson
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
- Learning to play Brahms on the organ, using the chorale preludes opus 122. Music performance from • 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 Tananger Church in Norway. For details of the organ, see rishton.no/Org...
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Prima! Danke.
...Amen to "really delightful piece". What you say is what I have found inherent in the music. I had to work these pieces out by myself. Can't help but smile when I listen to your teaching because it is so clear. I never struggled with this piece, although it seems just a bit odd for the organ. The arpeggios, etc., just kept making sense as I thought about the text, listened, and practiced. Thank you. What you say is confirmation.
That's really great to hear, thank you. Your recipe for making sense of the music is spot on!
Glorious performance and good teaching - I really enjoyed this - thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it! Tim
Beautifully played. I see what you mean about the 'sustain pedal'. It works. Very enlightening.
Thank you. This way of making things extra-sustained seems a largely-forgotten technique from a hundred years ago, and it does make a difference to this piece.
I vaguely recall reading Stravinsky telling how he was taught often to use finger sustain rather than pedal when playing the piano. Maybe this was a common 19th-century approach that is reflected in Brahms's use of phrase marks here. Virgil Fox's "acoustic release" device seems to be a related idea as well. They're musically effective things to do that are easy to understand but tricky to notate precisely.
Yes, a really useful analogy, thank you so much. Finger sustain at that period didn't occur to me while I was talking - I really should have mentioned it. Tim