Johannes Brahms - Documentary about the German Composer | Part 1

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  • Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
  • Brahms wrote his first but unpublished violin sonata in 1853, when he was 19 years old. He wrote it for a tour of North Germany with the Exarch Hungarian violinist. It was to turn out to be the most significant year of his early life with echoes that will ring on for the rest of his days. In addition to his own sonata, the programm for the tour included Beethoven's C minor sonata Opus 30, the Vieuxtemps concerto in E and Ernst Elegie. Brahms played the entire programm from memory. He did not even take the piano part of his own first sonata with him with the unhappy result that the manuscript is lost and the world has been deprived of a significant early work by Brahms.
    Pinchas Zukrman plays the G major Violin Sonata Op. 78
    25:50 first movement
    37:19 second movement
    46:42 third movement
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    To part 2: • Zukerman plays Brahms ...
    To part 3: • Zukerman plays Brahms ...
    An Allegro Film by Christopher Nupen

Комментарии • 158

  • @jeansimon326
    @jeansimon326 3 года назад +25

    Thank you immensely for giving us the opportunity to explore more deeply into the beautiful humanity and divine musical talents of these three astounding souls.

  • @SarumChoirmaster
    @SarumChoirmaster 8 месяцев назад +6

    As a teen, my first conducting teacher in the summer of 1974, was Dr. Richard Lert, also a godson of Brahms and later friend.

  • @v.g.r.l.4072
    @v.g.r.l.4072 2 года назад +3

    A wonderful film, full of sensitiveness and passion.

  • @robl5455
    @robl5455 4 года назад +17

    I saw this documentary on television many years ago and it was the first time I ever heard the scherzo of the FAE sonata and I have loved it ever since. Zukerman and Neikrug are wonderful here. Thanks for posting.

  • @tomdeneckere
    @tomdeneckere 3 года назад +26

    “Pinchas Zukrman plays the G major Sonata” … and fabulously so. He even makes it sound as if there’s a pianist playing too :-)

    • @tomdeneckere
      @tomdeneckere 3 года назад +2

      (ps. the pianist is Marc Neikrug.)

    • @chrisjohnson4380
      @chrisjohnson4380 3 года назад

      He plays the violin so well he can make it sound like he is a different person who is also playing the piano!?!

    • @renzo6490
      @renzo6490 2 года назад +2

      I think the point is that no where is the pianist credited.

    • @tomdeneckere
      @tomdeneckere 2 года назад +1

      @@renzo6490 Correct 🙂

  • @maxjohn6012
    @maxjohn6012 6 лет назад +10

    There was some soul-melting music in there. Thank you for uploading, these films are an absolute delight.

  • @pianolessonsboulder1894
    @pianolessonsboulder1894 5 лет назад +48

    I adore this documentary! Thank you ever so much for uploading. I also adore the narrator ! He is beyond perfect, as are the background images, and needless to say, the violin and piano music of Brahms!!! I have emailed this utterly beautiful and perfect documentary to many a student and friend, and have watched it more times than I can remember, with undiminished pleasure!

  • @johnfenner347
    @johnfenner347 5 лет назад +14

    A lovingly crafted documentary. Absolutely Marvellous Playing. Would there were more like this.
    Terrifically uplifting. Very many thanks.

  • @pianolessonsboulder1894
    @pianolessonsboulder1894 7 лет назад +24

    One of the most beautiful documentaries ever made !I adore this one .

  • @tanyaleef5138
    @tanyaleef5138 6 лет назад +19

    Fantastic performance of Brahms ,loved the documentary

  • @georgefelty6357
    @georgefelty6357 4 года назад +6

    Brahms was such an orchestrator and German music at its best!

  • @tysonrinker5958
    @tysonrinker5958 3 года назад +4

    Awesome, so far my favorite composers are mozart, brahms, and frans liszt becasue he was very fascinating. And bach , his music is beautfiul.

  • @supersonicboy75
    @supersonicboy75 5 лет назад +11

    Thank you, this documentary has just taken the Sunday evening blues away. What a lovely documentary. Much appreciated.

    • @melasonos6132
      @melasonos6132 4 года назад +2

      Haha, I feel this as its Sunday. And same for me.

  • @pianolessonsboulder1894
    @pianolessonsboulder1894 7 лет назад +51

    Thank God that Clara Schumann lovingly saved the Scherzo written by for the F.A.E. Sonata,It was found among her precious documents (letters from Brahms her journals, Schumann's letters etc.) after her death and was published in the 1920's. The 19 year old Brahms did not even think it worthy of publication. And yet for all of us Brahms lovers all over the world, it is pure Brahms from start to finish. and we are all the richer for it.No wonder that Clara Schumann wrote in the journal on the day that she first heard him play his music,"It seems as though the good God has sent him into the world ready made."

    • @annamariamanfredi6624
      @annamariamanfredi6624 9 месяцев назад

      È sempre bello e meraviglioso ascoltare la Musica di Brahms: tocca il cuore. Mi sento trasportare su altri Mondi "più puri e incontaminati".
      Grazie per aver pubblicato questo documentario ❤
      Buongiorno Mondo❤ Pace e Amore ❤

  • @ishtar2848
    @ishtar2848 3 года назад +6

    Clara Wieck was not only a "fine pianist, she was also a very good composer and one of the best pianists of her time!

  • @jamescecil3563
    @jamescecil3563 5 лет назад +33

    Tears of sadness. Tears of joy. Such a beautiful man.

  • @emilyhutjes
    @emilyhutjes Год назад +1

    Again THANK YOU Allegro Films for one more great documentary. I am truly great-full. (Holland dec. 2022 )

  • @BlueBaron3339
    @BlueBaron3339 3 года назад +10

    Such a sensitive and delightful film! I recall reading in the cover notes, of all places, as recordings were moving from 78s to LPs, that Brahms had played piano in a brothel 😂 Uh...no. But I enjoyed the story as a kid, much as I loved Brahms when I was young. It, oddly, added to his mystique in my eyes.

    • @pianofan1000
      @pianofan1000 2 года назад +1

      Scott Joplin played piano in brothels (and Churches) in case that's any consolation ;-)

    • @BlueBaron3339
      @BlueBaron3339 2 года назад

      @@pianofan1000 😂

  • @adelinaarnold790
    @adelinaarnold790 3 года назад +4

    Beautiful and elegant

  • @deedeequast9148
    @deedeequast9148 3 года назад +7

    The (sadly unacknowledged) accompanist is Marc Neikrug.

  • @Raffaele02
    @Raffaele02 7 месяцев назад

    Best interpretation of the G Major Sonata. This remember me in deepest moment why I play violin.

  • @TillerInstinct
    @TillerInstinct 7 лет назад +43

    I'm very happy to see your documentaries posted here.
    Thank you for this.

  • @alanwitton5980
    @alanwitton5980 Год назад +1

    The music is absolutely beautiful

  • @4Mr.Crowley2
    @4Mr.Crowley2 7 лет назад +78

    Young Brahms wins the handsomest composer award, hands down (maaaaybe young Liszt? But Brahms could have been a movie star).

  • @Quotenwagnerianer
    @Quotenwagnerianer 7 лет назад +6

    I have a soft spot for the F.A.E. Sonata. Although it is quite clear when listening to it, that it was written by three rather than one person, it is still quite an astonishing work.

  • @Chopin4321
    @Chopin4321 7 лет назад +8

    labor of love...muses all around him...around us

  • @tanyaleef5138
    @tanyaleef5138 6 лет назад +4

    Loved the documentary and a fantastic performances

  • @mathersdavid5113
    @mathersdavid5113 6 лет назад +6

    In that G major sonata reveals his soul and true nature, perhaps more than anywhere else.

  • @christopheramrston9732
    @christopheramrston9732 3 года назад +4

    Fantastic documentary other than beethoven brahma my second favorite composer ever his first symphony and violin concerto are arguably the greatest in music symphony only riveled by beethovens symphonies and his violin concerto

  • @semrabahcivan8627
    @semrabahcivan8627 7 лет назад +10

    Very exceptional , wonderful thank you for sharing.

  • @stephenestall9044
    @stephenestall9044 7 лет назад +4

    I love this playing. Beautiful

  • @maxdakota111
    @maxdakota111 3 года назад +2

    This documentary is wonderful. Of course the music itself is magnificent. My only peeve is I was hoping for more information about Brahms. I guess there needed to be some kind of balance between music and life story. I know/have heard much of his music, but I've never heard or read much regarding his life. All-in-all, a very documentary.

  • @belialah
    @belialah 7 лет назад +13

    Have never seen a Brahms documentary :)

  • @dannyvegasman
    @dannyvegasman 3 года назад +2

    what a treat this is! Bravo Christopher Nupen.

  • @thomastreppenhauerphotosho3972
    @thomastreppenhauerphotosho3972 2 года назад +1

    Great video, thank you so much!

  • @renzo6490
    @renzo6490 2 года назад +2

    Why include 2 minutes 45 seconds of applause?
    Very much music, which is wonderful.
    Very little documentary material, which is disappointing.

  • @foljamb
    @foljamb 2 года назад +3

    of course it's a sweet, superficial sketch-docu-bio, but the subtitle of part 1 says it's about the violin and viola sonatas, all of which were (as everybody knows) written long after schumann's death: this 1st part of the lovely, superficial sketch-docu-bio features in prominent audio foreground extracts from those late works as if they were music the 20-something year-old brahms was composing at the time of schumann's death--this is a typical blindspot of certain composer-docus which are put together by people who know their journalism but not the music catalog of the composer, and use the music as background...sound track...wallpaper... ("it's just a movie")--if you want something scholarly, expert and deeply moving check out michael parloff: "brahms and the schumanns" 2 parts, on youtube

    • @seventybelow139
      @seventybelow139 2 года назад

      Thanks, it can be tough to navigate around all the malarkey that the algorithms bring to the forefront these days.

  • @blancasusanamariles9267
    @blancasusanamariles9267 2 года назад +1

    2022: Brahms Piano Sonata: It was inspired while awaiting to meet his girl- Friend in the Forrest! There are motifs deeply soulful that cause tearful real tears if acutely listened to ! All themes in his piano intermezzo and Rhapsodies have a yearning quality to the phrasing, (ie., questioned and answered).

  • @westernkentucky5956
    @westernkentucky5956 17 часов назад

    Great work. Where's part II?

  • @ThePianoenergy
    @ThePianoenergy 3 года назад +5

    Who is the pianist? This is a sonata "Für Pianoforte und Violine". Before even playing or listening (not to mention when you play or hear it), the title already suggest the importance of the piano part, so I think the pianist must be mentioned equally prominent as the violinist!

  • @BenEmberley
    @BenEmberley 5 лет назад +7

    Fantastic Documentary. A bit too much music, I feel - maybe a little less and more narration would make it perfect :)

  • @emilycorwith1119
    @emilycorwith1119 7 лет назад +4

    Marvelous!

  • @franzliszt2777
    @franzliszt2777 3 года назад +3

    Is their a full recording of the song used in the intro I can listen to?

  • @WestVillageCrank
    @WestVillageCrank 7 лет назад +8

    It is probably greedy to ask, but is there a chance Part II will be posted? In any event, thanks for Part I!

    • @allegrofilms
      @allegrofilms  7 лет назад +10

      Part 2 is already available here: ruclips.net/video/suRvxC4VfK8/видео.html
      On the 5th January you will be able to see the third and last part of the documentary (see description)

    • @bachopinbee5991
      @bachopinbee5991 7 лет назад +4

      Thanks a bunch, Allegro Films.

  • @MimiYouyu
    @MimiYouyu 2 года назад +1

    Thank you for uploading lovely biography. At 21.50 what is the name of the place?

  • @joedang7632
    @joedang7632 6 лет назад +3

    I really like his music.

  • @hugosvensson6342
    @hugosvensson6342 7 лет назад +5

    Wounderful thank you!

  • @nanagomes8057
    @nanagomes8057 5 лет назад +1

    Thank you

  • @ricardomoncayo308
    @ricardomoncayo308 4 месяца назад

    Como siempre, los que solo hablamos y entendemos el idioma español, no podemos disfrutar de un montón de documentales!!, todo está pensado para los que hablan ingles!!!

  • @genelight6263
    @genelight6263 2 года назад +1

    Thatsthatsthatsthats

  • @maxdakota111
    @maxdakota111 3 года назад +2

    Oh, yes, where is part two?

  • @o.gpsyche392
    @o.gpsyche392 Год назад +1

    What's the name of the very first piece that plays while the note is read in the very beginning before the key movements?

    • @Blanchedout421
      @Blanchedout421 Год назад

      I want to know as well I can’t figure it out

  • @genelight6263
    @genelight6263 2 года назад

    Terrence nice to meet you

  • @danielpincus221
    @danielpincus221 3 года назад +1

    Who is the superb narrator?

  • @genelight6263
    @genelight6263 2 года назад

    Smooth too

  • @daisuke6072
    @daisuke6072 2 года назад

    This is not really a documentary in the usual sense about Brahms but rather should be entitled "Brahms and the Schumanns" or "Brahms and Clara Schumann [and the genesis of the Violin Sonata in G Major Sonata]" or some such with a performance of the G Major Sonata. Excellent sensitive performance. Very interesting but not as expected.

  • @ricardo-qp1uy
    @ricardo-qp1uy 2 месяца назад

    ¿No esta este documental con subtitulos en español?

  • @christinestill5002
    @christinestill5002 6 лет назад +4

    This young man is Pinchas Zukerman, correct?

    • @jockstender
      @jockstender 5 лет назад +1

      Yes, years ago, in his youth.

  • @jeanparke9373
    @jeanparke9373 7 лет назад +1

    Ok. The first movement starts at 25:50!

  • @virtualpoboy
    @virtualpoboy 2 месяца назад

    Respectfully, WHERE is Part 2…?

  • @minka866
    @minka866 4 года назад +2

    There is a lost Brahms Violin sonata?

  • @genelight6263
    @genelight6263 2 года назад

    Evergreen

  • @lucasgust7720
    @lucasgust7720 Год назад

    What's the title of the piece of the very beggining of this documentary?

  • @miguelmeyer1735
    @miguelmeyer1735 Год назад +1

    Please, translate to Spanish ir put subtitles. Thanks

  • @user-ru6ds5og9i
    @user-ru6ds5og9i 8 месяцев назад

    is there a recording of the first piece in this video? (1:21) i can only find the original lieder version.

  • @johannesindusleri5745
    @johannesindusleri5745 2 года назад +1

    What is the music in 00:02?
    Is it Brahms's composition ?

    • @whenimfree
      @whenimfree 2 года назад

      im wondering that too ... also at about 2 mins .. the piece sounds like the last mvt of the vln sonata 1 but its something else ...

    • @johannesindusleri5745
      @johannesindusleri5745 Год назад

      @@amykaufman6327 thank you

    • @benedekdevich7825
      @benedekdevich7825 Год назад

      meine liebe ist grün by brahms

  • @maryrichards4784
    @maryrichards4784 6 лет назад +1

    The pianist, please?

  • @silvinafuentes8586
    @silvinafuentes8586 2 года назад

    Por favor, incluyan subtítulos en español, gracias

  • @pabloestebanmedici730
    @pabloestebanmedici730 6 лет назад

    Is in dvd this documental? Or with spanish subtitles?

    • @allegrofilms
      @allegrofilms  6 лет назад

      Unfortunately this film is not available on DVD, but we activated the community contributions so everyone can add Spanish subtitles.

  • @joseavendano3720
    @joseavendano3720 4 года назад

    sin palabras

  • @divox9pqr
    @divox9pqr 2 года назад

    Yes, he was very handsome as a young man.

  • @andygato2452
    @andygato2452 4 года назад

  • @mushi9891
    @mushi9891 4 года назад

    Which is the song that is played on 5:28?

  • @kennethmilam2894
    @kennethmilam2894 2 года назад

    DAMN!!!! He was creepier back then

  • @emilioluz84
    @emilioluz84 7 лет назад +1

    Hi everybody. somebody knows what is the work that opens this first part of the documental here presented?

    • @Jantsenpr777
      @Jantsenpr777 7 лет назад

      emilio luz The beginning of the third movement of the G major sonata for violin and piano.

    • @pianolessonsboulder1894
      @pianolessonsboulder1894 7 лет назад +3

      It is song by Brahms, but the melody is played on the violin(at the start of this beautiful documentary).. It is based on a poem written by his godson Felix Schumann when Felix ,the most gifted of Robert and Clara Schumann's children, was just 19 years old.Clara had sent the poem to Brahms, asking what he thought of it.Brahms' reply was to write one of his most beautiful songs to it.Felix spent many,many happy hours playing this song and singing Brahms' melody.

  • @Evan-kq2xl
    @Evan-kq2xl 7 лет назад +1

    I wonder if Aussie actor, Heath Ledger looked like Brahms because they shared incarnations of the same soul. Gee I hope not if those two couldn't get off the hook there's no hope for an ordinary bloke like me.

  • @susannunes6196
    @susannunes6196 5 лет назад +3

    The work of Brahms is still very boring to me perhaps because I am not a musician. I have tried many times to hear what makes him so beloved but I have yet to find it...Maybe it is just a matter of taste.....

    • @loydgravitt7733
      @loydgravitt7733 5 лет назад +11

      I was the same way in my younger days. Then one day, something just "clicked" and Brahms became one of my all time favourite composers. I think there is even a term for this change of opinion the "Brahms Epihany". There is a subtle depth and emotional intensity in Brahms mixed intimately with an extreme logic and craftsmanship. There is really no one else in music who mixes emotion and intellect so perfectly, except for the greatest of them all....JS Bach

    • @valentinekizito661
      @valentinekizito661 5 лет назад +2

      I was once in your position, now I thank God for Brahms

    • @eligo9
      @eligo9 4 года назад +4

      I could never "get" Brahms when I was a young music student. Now I am astonished by every note. I think,for me, it took a lot of life experience to "mature" to his level of understanding. Its like suddenly getting the right glasses and seeing everything clearly and with a new depth. I identify so entirely with his music now and have it with me every day.

    • @pigalleycatemanresu7321
      @pigalleycatemanresu7321 4 года назад +1

      I felt the same way, and I AM a musician! I started with his symphonies, and found them un-melodic and dense, with the exception of the 4th movement of his first symphony, which is kind of an ode to Beethoven. Then took a class on his lieder (songs) of which he wrote many, and lived off the publishing income most of his life. You have to listen for motifs and their development, more than actual melodies. And they are closely related to the rhythms of the words and stanzas of the poems (accented like English) of some great romantic poets. But I still had a hard time with, to my ear, the harshness of the German language, and German singers. My epiphany came when I heard some lieder sung by Monserrat Alvedra, a Spanish soprano, who interpreted the songs with a lyrical sense without the rough edges the kept me from perceiving and feeling the emotional content of the music. From there, I learned how to listen for the motifs and their development into internal conversations as Brahms's harmonic structure developed. I don't think he published a sonata before he was forty years old. He said he felt the giant footsteps of Beethoven hard to fill, and he wrote "only" 4 symphonies, the first when he was in his fifties. If you start with a few lieder, you will soon find yourself understanding his mature works. May I suggest: Piano concerto in D Minor, and the Violin concerto in D. You may not like the violin concerto, but you won't be bored. But even in Brahms day, he was already considered old-fashioned as the Romantic movement was all but over. There were two camps in German music at the end of the 19th C., Brahmsian and Wagnerian. But to be truthful, I find Mahler to be boring! It is just a matter of taste.

    • @christopheramrston9732
      @christopheramrston9732 3 года назад +1

      You have to dig deep his Hungarian dances his piano concertos his double concerto his overtures his songs and 4 symphonies start with those and then his sonatas lieders requiem and then his quintents and piano trio's

  • @miamadojesus
    @miamadojesus 3 года назад

    Como siempre, se repite lo mismo, un video que, los que no sabemos inglés, no podemos disfrutar. Ni siquiera lo han SUBTITULADO. En fin, una PENA. Es que es tan complicado, tecnológicamente hablando, hacerlo...?! Por favor, que alguien haga algo y que quien pueda, no se quede de brazos cruzados. Muchas gracias.

  • @JSMatteson
    @JSMatteson 3 года назад

    1:17 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute_music #synchromism

  • @vinista256
    @vinista256 3 года назад

    If anyone wants a palate-cleanser after all of this hagiography-and wants to hear works other than violin sonatas-I highly recommend “Brahms and the Little Singing Girls” (hint: that has nothing to do with a choir of pre-pubescent females).

  • @genelight6263
    @genelight6263 2 года назад

    paulrodg

  • @genelight6263
    @genelight6263 2 года назад

    tixe

  • @genelight6263
    @genelight6263 2 года назад

    orvilleredenbachers

  • @Dachion
    @Dachion 6 лет назад +1

    Not paradroid!

  • @genelight6263
    @genelight6263 2 года назад

    slim jims

  •  2 года назад

    This a dull doco... Damn!

  • @genelight6263
    @genelight6263 2 года назад

    bic

  • @gabi-cr1wv
    @gabi-cr1wv 4 года назад

    2?Zzz

  • @SuspiciousAlertness
    @SuspiciousAlertness 6 лет назад +1

    Yaaawwwnnnn...great for insomniacs

    • @SuspiciousAlertness
      @SuspiciousAlertness 4 года назад +2

      @si james I'm an idiot for not liking what you like? What level of intelligence are you demonstrating by being so judgmental?

    • @williamrobinson6059
      @williamrobinson6059 3 года назад

      SuspiciousAlertness facts

  • @israelcortes4230
    @israelcortes4230 7 лет назад

    spanish subtitles?

    • @allegrofilms
      @allegrofilms  7 лет назад +1

      Unfortunately not for this documentary. But we just activated the Community contributions: now everyone can add translations.
      Here you can find all our documentaries with Spanish subtiles: goo.gl/s6sSG1

  • @genelight6263
    @genelight6263 2 года назад

    tixe