BRAHMS - Quintet in F minor, Op. 34
Johannes Brahms: Quintet in F minor, Op. 34
Maria Ioudenitch, violin
Andrea Obiso, violin
Matthew Sinno, viola
Timotheos Petrin, cello
Chelsea Wang, piano
Performed on Tuesday, April 11, 2017
Field Concert Hall, Curtis Institute of Music, Philadelphia
0:00 Allegro non troppa
16:15 Andante, un poco adagio
25:10 Scherzo: Allegro
33:15 Finale: Poco Sostenuto-Allegro non troppo
If Brahms had been less of a perfectionist, it’s very likely that he would have left us a very good string quintet rather than the magnum opus that is his piano quintet. Clara Schumann received Brahms’s string quintet manuscript in the fall of 1862, and responded with unreserved enthusiasm: “What inner strength, what richness in the first movement, with the first subject immediately seizing hold of you! How beautifully written for the instruments … I can’t tell you how moved I am by it, and how powerfully gripped.”
Josef Joachim also gave it a complimentary review, at least at first. He called it “a piece of the greatest significance, full of masculine strength and sweeping design-that much is immediately apparent to me.” After a few performances, however, Joachim expressed reservations: “I can’t be schoolmasterly over the details of a work whose every line shows proof of an almost overwhelming creative strength, and one that is full of spirit through and through. What I miss in it for unalloyed pleasure is, to pinpoint it in a single phrase, an attractive sonority. And I believe that if you were to hear it calmly this is something you would feel too after a while.” Joachim enumerated very specific concerns-enough that Brahms promptly destroyed the string quintet.
The following year, he delivered the same music in a brand-new format: as a sonata for two pianos, which he performed with Karl Tausig in April 1864. This time, it was not so well-received. Clara praised its musical content but argued that it sounded more like an arrangement of a larger work than a full-fledged sonata. Brahms took this to heart, and rather than scrapping both ideas, married them. The result was this piano quintet, still a relatively early work in his oeuvre but one that stands as a towering pillar of the chamber music repertoire to this day.
The quintet draws inspiration from a number of sources. Foremost is Schubert’s String Quintet in C major -- its influence is evidenced not only by the original scoring in which Brahms wrote it, but by specific characteristics shared by the slow movements of both works. A second source could very well be Beethoven’s “Appassionata” sonata. The quintet, like the sonata, begins in F minor, in octaves, and the main theme is interrupted by an exciting flurry of sixteenth notes.
Whatever influenced Brahms in the writing of his quintet, the final result is all his own. This piece is a mountain, to be climbed not only by the performers but the audience as well. As the conductor Hermann Levi remarked upon hearing it for the first time, so do we regard it today: “a masterpiece of chamber music.
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Thank you for the notes in the description, it's really appreciated by relative new classical music listeners like me.
@anne-louiseluccarini4530
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And by seasoned ones like me. Music lovers speak the same language.
This performance is nothing less than stellar whatever bots/non entities are down voting it. I have been listening to this almost every day and it is soooo good
@ImAnBoosterBaby
3 жыл бұрын
@ wtf is your problem? I think you have a problem!
@kushgroover54
3 жыл бұрын
@ how the fuck can you make this a political claim villainizing a subsidiary civil rights movement? please go away, this is a classical music comment section.
Thank you so much. Hard to find a performance like this nowadays, where the music comes first and isn't a mere show off. Precious!
that counterpoint at the beginning is soo good
What a wonderful, stunning and moving performance, so deeply musical and technically brilliant. A great gift to listen to and watch.
This makes 2020 a bit better.
@lisaragsdale1530
3 жыл бұрын
And 2021 MUCH better.
Wonderfully performed, ahhh very beautiful indeed. So often overpowered and "noisy" both on record and live, but here the quintet is kept within the realm of true chamber music. Within, without limits! Less is more, as always. A treasure performance, the ensemble shall be very proud of their hard work to reach this level.
oh my, it's making an old man cry
Una composizione grandiosa, colma di pathos, di inarrivabile capacità inventiva, che ha un solo precedente: il quintetto op. 44 di Schumann, che forse da questo di Brahms è anche superato!... Bella esecuzione.
Best twisted bow flourish I've ever heard for this quintet at 42:17
Great job!
Fine work justly appreciated
Pure beauty and the most profound of emotion.
Beautiful.
Sublime interpretation for a wonderful piece of music !!! Congrats and bravo to all the artists and thank you all so much !!!
I doubt anyone has bettered Brahms' works for the particular combination of piano and strings.
@vijinanadu1962
2 жыл бұрын
Faure
1악장의 세련된 멜로디와 각 연주자들의 원숙미가 전곡을 흐르고 있으니 지루함을 느낄 틈이 없습니다!작곡가 브람스의 수작입니다!
Спасибо за запись.
twoset gang?
@r2g279
3 жыл бұрын
LingLing insurance
@b0ba_bob
3 жыл бұрын
ᴀ ᴍ ᴀ ᴢ ɪ ɴ ɢ
@18thVariation
3 жыл бұрын
Here!! Absolutely had to experience the full quintet in its blissful glory :3
@kyawshinthant4237
3 жыл бұрын
For those of you who forgot, this was in their video titled “When was it composed?”.
@maarjakahrik3614
3 жыл бұрын
Yep! Finally found the right recording!!!
So the performance of this piece in the twoset chooses is from COLLEGE STUDENTS (they're Curtis students I know)?! That is quite an achievement.
@danmoran454
3 жыл бұрын
@ Jimmy Perera: What does them being "college students" have to do with anything? Do you not know the audition requirements for being admitted into The Curtis Institute or any Conservatory or University's School of Music (especially a Conservatory environment)? And the level of artistry required for admittance? Some people seem willfully-ignorant in this regard. One can get some of the finest performances anywhere from students of this high caliber. It's not happening much these days, but in the past some Conservatory and or University Choruses appeared regularly with major symphony orchestras. New England Conservatory Chorus was a frequent invited Chorus of the Boston Symphony Orchestra for many years. The same for the University of Maryland Chorus and their legacy with the Kennedy Center's National Symphony Orchestra and touring international orchestras from the EU, such as the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam. Again, students of the highest caliber.
@joeblo1130
3 жыл бұрын
@@danmoran454 Touchy... The man is expressing his appreciation and marvel at the talent of these young people, did he need to be schooled by you? Nah, but you schooled him anyway - good for *you*
@danmoran454
3 жыл бұрын
@@joeblo1130 "Schooling" is always bad isn't it? It didn't used to be. That's not what I considered myself doing however. I just happen to know quite a bit about the New England Conservatory and their history as well as other Schools of Music, since I'm a Conservatory graduate myself. I didn't know providing that information would be considered a negative thing and called "schooling." Such sensitive, delicate and touchy people on here who are afraid of new information. Providing new information and insight these days is highly frowned upon, no matter how it's done. But glad I could help.
@anne-louiseluccarini4530
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@@danmoran454 Well, I enjoyed reading it, most interesting. But I admit that the word "wilfully" gave me a nasty little shock - it came over as aggressive, and I'm sure that wasn't your intention. You can't be wilfully ignorant of something you've never been told about.
@weialexanderxin757
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Wait where is the video where they mention this? I wanna see...
bravo! excellent music
Violinist looks like he's working hard. Pianist IS working hard.
If you were marooned on a deserted island would you rather have your hut-mate the piano player or the page-turner?
@anne-louiseluccarini4530
Жыл бұрын
Both. But what if the piano had gone down with the ship? Whatever would the three of you do then?
WOW!!!!
yes but who is the page turner
@daniellynch5583
5 жыл бұрын
She's the understudy who will be playing the piano next year.
13:43 26:15 32:35 34:55 36:14
As far as one can tell through the appalling MP 3 compression this is a great performance but how pray tell did the cello manage to buried?
@electricflixproductions
2 жыл бұрын
I know this is a very late comment. But it would seem that the Quintet was recorded from the front sides and not from above and sides as per DECCA standards (one of the best imo). This would makes sense as the cello's lower notes are rolled off behind the higher notes but the pianos reverberations are still present from its large nature.
Ahh, a performance in which the piano is not drowning out the strings.
3:54