The andante is music for the ages ...intensely moving in a shatteringly quiet way..the harmonic progression that squeezes out more pathos is so Brahmsian.

A little trivia about Op. 60, which is generally regarded as one of the great masterpieces of 19th century romantic music. Was begun in 1855, around the time Brahms' friend and mentor Robert Schumann lost his sanity and died in an asylum, leaving his wife Clara and 8 children. Brahms didn't finish it until 1975, when he was in his maturity as a composer. The first movement almost certainly reflects the shock and darkness Brahms felt at the loss of Robert Schumann. The piece also contains numerous musical references to Clara, whom Brahms fell in love with and proposed marriage to (she turned him down). The third movement, with the cello opening one of the most gorgeous lines Brahms ever wrote, may have been a love song to Clara -- or to Robert. When Brahms presented the quartet to his publisher, he joked that it should have a drawing of Werther on the cover -- a reference to a novel by Goethe about the emotional tribulations of a young man in love.

@kathrynfuller596

6 ай бұрын

I was also told that Brahms wrote the Andante as a love song to Clara, by Menahem Pressler at one of the Beaux Art Trio's final concerts. I looked around and saw other women in the audience tearing up.

@windstorm1000

2 ай бұрын

Moving informative thoughts of great masterpiece....

This is profound music, so profound that I had to get really old to understand how profound it is. Now I love it. It has taken almost a lifetime. Maybe the best experiences come late in life?

@tomboyer5608

Жыл бұрын

Most musicians I know fell hard for Brahms early in life, as teens or at college/conservatory. Brahms chamber music inspired many of us to learn our instruments so that we might someday play it. But at the same time some of this music resonates more late in life; viscerally I understand it better at 62 than I did as a teenager.

@staffanolofsson8201

Жыл бұрын

@@tomboyer5608 Thank you Tom. We who are not classical musicians perhaps are "slow starters", sometimes very slow starters. What I know by now is that it is never too late.

This piece reveals Brahms for what he really was: a compositional virtuoso. This is his Kreutzer sonata

I cried throughout this performance. How exquisite . I am at a loss for words. Sublime. Magnificent.

I grew up playing the cello, and I have loved great music my whole life... But, for some reason, this wondrous creation by one of my favorite composers escaped my attention until now... The Andante is remarkably beautiful - simply haunting... What a wonderful day it is when you discover something like this - it's like Brahms is still with us, and at least for me, creating something entirely new to fill my life with beauty and joy...

@AnHonestDoubter

4 жыл бұрын

I had the exact same experience. Assuming you've heard the Jacquelyn du Pre recording of his Cello Sonata #1 on YT? This piece rivals it for beauty and majesty. Both are glorious, invaluable gems.

@michaelrogers5486

4 жыл бұрын

This is Brahms' suicide piece

@AnHonestDoubter

4 жыл бұрын

@@michaelrogers5486 Intriguing, can you explain what you mean?

@michaelrogers5495

4 жыл бұрын

@@AnHonestDoubter He said to his publisher that the frontispiece of the score should have the image of a man with a gun to his head. He wrote this piece about his unrequited love, and obsession, with Clara Schumann.

@ernesthemingway9469

3 жыл бұрын

@@michaelrogers5495 I don't know that true or not because I heard same thing about piano concerto no 1

chambermusic doesnt get any better than this: superb performance !!!!!!! every performance I saw so far from this Hochrhein Musikfestival is of the highest possible level: musicians ,the acoustics of the room ,the recording engineers, the camerawork, it just blows my mind away. Bravo!

Flat out one the best performances of this masterwork out there. This is a "take no prisoners"-style performance that suits Brahms perfectly. I'd love to hear more from this quartet.

@rockoone3090

2 жыл бұрын

totally agree, highly intelligent playing, yet charged with gut feel and tradition

@pamelabublitz9312

Жыл бұрын

Agreed

@staffanolofsson8201

Жыл бұрын

I am not fully aquainted with the expression "take no prisoners" the swede I am. In my mind it it stand for "shoot them instead of having some troubles with putting them in prison". So I hesitate before this expression in a musical connection.

@lakek9573

Жыл бұрын

@@staffanolofsson8201 that is a violent description of this expression. (It’s not wrong) I think in this context it means “with much bravura”

@laurieteunis5744

Жыл бұрын

I love it

Ein Brahms mit gleich drei (!!!) Superlativen A Allerbeste Livekonzert Filmaufnahme überhaupt Gestochen schafe Bilder Natürlichste Farben Kameraführung perfekt B Allerbeste Interpretation von Brahms drittem Klavier quartett op. 60 die ich über - haupt kenne und je im Leben gehört habe (ich hab das Werk oft gehört : Musikverein Konzerthaus Musikuni Wien Die Musik fließt extrem ruhig u. völlig unaufgeregt ohne je den großen Spannungsbogen der Brahmsschen Emotionalität zu verlassen Die Ausgewogenheit von allergrößter innerer Ruhe u. größtmöglicher Dramatik (scheinbar ein Widerspruch in sich selbst) - hier gelingt er auf phantastische Art und Weise C Ein phantastischer Ton mit aller - bester räumlicher Akustik detail - reich differenziert und lupenrein trotz der mp3 Reduktion auf You- tube - mehr als ungewöhnlch Eine Interpretation die tatsächlich keine Wünsche offenläßt und alles darstellt bis ins allerletzte Detail .... Richard Schnaitl aus Wien

Friends, this is telling the story of everything that has come and is coming to us all. I truly love this performance, it is a permanent facet of my psyche through my days and dreams

Nelson Goerner has to be one of the finest chamber music pianists in the entire world! I'm not familiar with him until the Schumann Quartet and this work. Veronika Eberle plays with such control, perfect intonation, heart-felt expression! It's a miracle of collaboration resounding in this hall and through the recording that touches our hearts and minds!

The cello solo in the Andante is so beautifully done it is a thing of wonder - a real artist putting her heart and soul into this great music.

@jimjennings7623

5 жыл бұрын

That is such a beautiful piece. Yes, I agree, she does it very very well. ...never enough. I have to hear it again!

@danasheys9300

4 жыл бұрын

Yes I'm listening to it again now

@remixuereb

3 жыл бұрын

Don't forget the Viola also .

@joeblo1130

2 жыл бұрын

The cellist seems to match the pianist in controlled outer expression while the violinist and violist compliment each other's enjoyment of the freedom afforded to their spirits in playing this. It is good

@hansiten998

2 жыл бұрын

@@joeblo1130 it’s a string quartet I don’t hear a pianist!!!!

_GOD bless all performers.........I say _*_MASTERPIECE!_* 😍

This is my first time listening to this piece, and it leaves me speechless, because how well you played this, and also how not many people know about this amazing piece

Interpretation of 3rd movement, the andante, is the most beatifull I've ever heard. Great interpretation of this beatifull chamber masterpiece. Bravo.

Extremely wonderful music, superb performance, well recorded and filmed. Brahms at his best. Pure enjoyment!

Amazed at the viola performance. Absolutely loved her sound. Such passion by all. Bravo!

Discovering an unfamiliar Brahms chamber work is always exciting. Exquisite!!!

@pedrov8868

4 жыл бұрын

I still remember the first time I ran into this work, love at first sight. It's been too long since I've played it

@aceventura2237

4 жыл бұрын

I need help w this style. What chords scales can I use to write this style.

Proof that you don't have to take drugs to reach higher levels of consciousness. Stunning music!

@wealllive2

3 жыл бұрын

how do you know unless you've taken it? abstract music might just go very well with different types of drugs.

@ErikWilliamsviolin

3 жыл бұрын

@@wealllive2 Agreed. I took acid and listened to a bunch of violin concertos once, and it completely changed my perspective on those concertos. Made me a much better musician.

@joeblo1130

2 жыл бұрын

Ah, drugs. How did that worm it's way into the discussion of this fantastic work?

@ErikWilliamsviolin

2 жыл бұрын

@@joeblo1130 They're part of life just as many things are. This work is a reflection of the process of life itself, so it's fitting.

@joeblo1130

2 жыл бұрын

@@ErikWilliamsviolin You can count me among the initiated my friend. I thought it was a strange comment and wondered about it's origins. I suppose it could be denial, affirmation seeking, or self justification in judging others with propaganda as proof of their error. Who knows?

you tube has enlightened the global world a lot and should not stop educating us

@christianfreedom-seeker934

5 жыл бұрын

Nah, once they dump all the "Right Wing" stuff off KZread they'll purge all the Classical too. Watch.

@jonahpatuto1196

4 жыл бұрын

@@christianfreedom-seeker934 I really hope that isn't the case! :( thankfully I'm buying CD's just in case...

@danasheys9300

4 жыл бұрын

Exactly... classical music is much too WHITE Not funny though...This will happen!! WAR WITH THE WHOLE WORLD ,,,!!!!!

@josephososkie3029

4 жыл бұрын

Coffie Fredrick . I love youtube but they definitely flirt with censorship. Too much power so I would go easy on praising them for enlightenment.

@Steinwaytoday

3 жыл бұрын

@@christianfreedom-seeker934 Can you please keep your weird American "conservative" paranoia away from videos of beautiful music like this? I'm sorry that your favorite racist youtuber is being reprimanded for hate speech, that has nothing to do with classical music.

Glorious playing, such respect for tradition, yet as fresh as anything you could wish for.

The location with music is so beautiful

Much gratitude:)

Superb recording of a superb performance of a superb masterpiece!! THANK YOU for uploading!

Music that plumbs the very depths of one's soul, tremulously making our emotions surface and takes our breath away!!!

@AnHonestDoubter

4 жыл бұрын

Brahms quote: To realize that we are one with the Creator, as Beethoven did, is a wonderful and awe-inspiring experience. Very few human beings ever come into that realization and this is why there are so few great composers or creative geniuses in any line of human endeavor. I always contemplate all this before commencing to compose. This is the first step. . . . I immediately feel vibrations that thrill my whole being. . . . In this exalted state, I see clearly what is obscure in my ordinary moods; then I feel capable of drawing inspiration from above, as Beethoven did. . . . Straightaway the ideas flow in upon me, . . . and not only do I see distinct themes in my mind’s eye, but they are clothed in the right forms, harmonies, and orchestrations. Measure by measure, the finished product is revealed to me when I am in those rare, inspired moods. . . . I have to be in a semi-trance condition to get such results - a condition when the conscious mind is in temporary abeyance and the subconscious is in control, for it is through the subconscious mind, which is part of Omnipotence, that the inspiration comes. I have to be careful, however, not to lose consciousness, otherwise the ideas fade away.

@vijinanadu1962

3 жыл бұрын

Can you tell me where did you obtain this wonderful Brahms' quote?

Thanks so much for posting.

Beautiful! The Andante sang with tender passion.

A work of a genius!

Amazing! This piece is a swirling vortex of emotions. The performances are outstanding.

@guillermopeitton4359

5 жыл бұрын

Agree, it's really a swirling vortex of emotions, well said.

amo assistir quartetos parabéns tocam muito

One of my favorites by Brahms. Great performance. Thank you for uploading.

this is pure art

esplendida interpretación y calidad de video. Gracias mil ¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡

Very beautiful performance!

GREAT PERFORMANCE AND BEAUTIFULY RECORDED TOO....

Just imagine what it was like 200 years ago, long before the advent of popular music, to attend such a performance. I shiver.............

A clear and inspired performance, outstanding!

Thank you for sharing this excellent performance of this masterwork.

Awesome performance!

8:15 to 8:30 is the best bit of music of all time for me. its an emotion so rarely expressed in music.

@frankstein9982

4 жыл бұрын

it just keeps going on, that feeling, even into the coda starting at 9:06; many pianists play the climactic chord just after 9:19 with more emphasis.

@AnHonestDoubter

3 жыл бұрын

@@frankstein9982 wow, your timestamp was fortuitous! It made me really appreciate the Mastercraft of even seconds of this piece. At 9:06 the violinist makes a deep, descending melody, which is then answered by the viola in the same fashion, though slightly deeper, then both join to make the same melody in unison. So simple and beautiful!

It was amazing performance! Congrat!

I finally found it!!

Breathtaking performance.

I love it😢

Astounding. High quality playing

What a magnificent performance ! These four consummate musicians are stars !

Wonderful music and wonderful interpretation.

Beautiful pianist and all other instruments also great violinist.

a truly magnific masterpiece

Dit is de allermooiste uitvoering ooit die ik van de "Werther" gehoord heb. Gevoelig, zuiver, vloeiend; de instrumenten worden zó bespeeld dat het als vanzelf lijkt te gaan; ik denk dat de componist erg tevreden zou zijn geweest. Dit is al de zesde keer dat ik naar deze uitvoering luister...

@duncanrichardson2167

3 жыл бұрын

I do not read Dutch(?) but if the mention of Werther is meant to suggest any similarity between the character of Brahms and that of the self-obsessed "hero" of Goethe's novel I beg to differ.

@sbeunis

3 жыл бұрын

@@duncanrichardson2167 This concert's nickname is "The Werther", thats why. :)

@duncanrichardson2167

3 жыл бұрын

@@sbeunis Thank you. The performance was excellent but the visuals were, as usual, an unnecessary distraction.

This music is wonderful; congratulations to all musicians, they trasmit music with passion together

Unglaublich gut

Incredible artistry here.

Exquisite.

Stunning performance!

@casalsfan

4 жыл бұрын

It certainly was!

A exquisite performance I’d love to visit this Festival just over the Border from Switzerland whould love to visit and attend a concert! Hope it will still be on in 2022

Hermosa composición y espléndida interpretación!!! Un placer poder disfrutar de este cuarteto de Brahms en el marco de ese escenario místico!!! Arte en todos los sentidos!!!

Una excelente interpretacion con gran profesionalismo y gran virtuosidad

The music that captured my emotions forever

Danke, das hat großen Spass gemacht … 😉

Una bella composición será siempre algo majestuoso...

My favorite klavierquartett. 😀

the stereo in the Andante is beautiful, especially when they play the pizzicato notes

Beautiful!! For some reason it took me a long time to warm up to the Brahms Pn 4tets - maybe because there's SO much other great Brahms to listen to. In the Andante there are a couple of cello themes that could easily branch into ones from the 2nd Piano Con.

Musica sublime, costruzione perfetta, profondità che pochi compositori raggiungono; il movimento lirico è di una bellezza raggelante. Complimenti agli esecutori molto capaci e passionali.

Uma beleza concisa e intensa, que somente um Quarteto pode nos proporcionar. Magnifico Brahms!

IN A NUMBER OF WAYS THIS WAS A DARKER AND EDGIER PIECE LEADING FROM A QUIET START. THROUGHOUT, WELL PERFORMED. THANK YOU FOR THIS WONDERFUL DOWNLOAD.

There is much love in this partiture by Master Brahms, lovely, it's like a balm for the spirit. Wonderful performance. Many thanks for uploading.

@felixdevilliers1

4 жыл бұрын

Also a shock to the spirit. Utra modern music.

ベロニカエ－ベルレを中心に下。アンサンブルがとても柔らかく。体温が感じられるような演奏に。心地の良い。３２分が過ごせます。涼しくなった秋の夜にふさわしい名曲。名演奏です。

É muito bom receber esta verdadeira jóia em uma sexta-feira. Muito obrigado pela postagem.

@NicoloP3419

6 жыл бұрын

bravo

Instrumentos cúmplices e submissos!

Nice music😁

Clara Schuamnn must have loved this work as she put it on her programmes regularly.

@michaelrogers5486

4 жыл бұрын

Brahms wrote this piece about her!

@felixdevilliers1

4 жыл бұрын

@@michaelrogers5486 - It most certainly is not. I know the biographies inside out. He wrote his works for the public and of course she was one of the first he wanted to hear his works. They had some quite serious fights. Clara worshipped Robert and every work of his was wonderful even when some of the later works were weak. With Brahms she seemed to take some revenge on this sibmissive attitude. She often complained about his works, passages in them. There was a point when Brahms shoiwed his new works first to friends - the Herzognebergs - and not to Clara. A typical remark from her diary ' new work by Brahms. unfortunately the usual weak/bad spots' - flaue Stellen. Brahms said specfically when he was young that the slow movement of his D minor Concerto was a portrait of Clara, a literal portrait, obviously not - inspired by thoughts of her. After one of their most lethal fights, he said, to make up to her again - that all his slow movements were still about her. - I'd say, still about those youthful feelings he had about her.

@michaelrogers5486

4 жыл бұрын

@@felixdevilliers1 I'm quite glad that you've read the biographies and the letters just as the rest of us have. Brahms wrote his c minor quartet about his unrequited love for her. He intended there to be a silhouette of a man holding a revolver to his head on the frontispiece, to reflect the suicidal mood he was in. You misspelled Herzogenberg.

@michaelrogers5486

4 жыл бұрын

@@felixdevilliers1 the 2nd theme of the first mvt. is the CLARA theme. btw

@felixdevilliers1

4 жыл бұрын

@@michaelrogers5486 - Absoute nonsense. Brahms did not imdiicate anywhere that the suggestion to his publisher had amything to do with unrequited love fot Clara..Give me your source. He was generally depressed at that stage. His Piano Concerto was rejected by the public He was hard up nd having a difficult time.. Schumann's fate and death had upset him. I think the feigned, humorous suicide idea had more to do with his love for Schumann. Yes, Brahms was in love with Clara but we will never know what actually happemed between them He and Clara agreed together that it was better for them to go their separate ways.. In a freeer society than ours they might have had a love afair. openly. Someone tried to prove that Felix was the son of Brahms but I have been through the dates and it would easily have been possible for Robert to have conceived him well before his final illness. He was an habotual fucker like Bach. Clara was very faithful even to the memory of her hisband. I don't think she would have found it easy to go from Clara Schumann to being Clara Brahms. That Schumann name was sacred to her.. Brahms always shied away from a conclusive relationship with a woman. Something in him was teriffied of such domestication. He was practically engaged to - was her name Agathe .Siebold? - and everyone was shocked when he suddenly broke away from her. I think I am remembering correctly that he wrote to her saying they should just have a love affair and not get married. That is what made her withdraw. I don't think there are many people who have been through all the biographies, letters and diaries in German as thoroughly as I have. Robert and Clara were idols of mine from the age of 14.. I lived with them. I'm not surprised that I spelled Herzogenberg wrongly. I keep making typing slips and don't always manage to correct them all. I have already corrected dozens in this note.

Qué bien escrita está esta música...

III. Andante - ❤️

Pur non costituendo un quartetto che suona insieme abitualmente, i quattro solisti dimostrano un ragguardevole affiatamento. Grande intelligenza interpretativa nell'aver saputo rilevare tutta la tragicità di fondo della composizione; un'aura quasi tenebrosa che, per contrasto, il dolce lirismo del terzo movimento non fa che rendere più intensa.

@claudioparrella183

4 жыл бұрын

nunzia

@marinacaracciolo3161

3 жыл бұрын

@@claudioparrella183 ???

This is good

9:43❤️

Brahms; estagia na audição e se funde na alma!

너무나 아름답습니당 ㅎㅎ 유럽여행 계획할때 이런 연주회도 일정에 넣어 가고싶을만큼 ㅜㅜ

Como poucos músicos podem dar.nos boa música ! mas podiam ter um aspecto de mais contentes, parecem contrariados, salvo no brilhante solo do violoncelo. Parabéns, também aos autores do vídeo. O abraço desde Lisboa-Portugal

Excellent music and performance. In the fourth movement, I hear Beethoven!😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

@duvidl58

4 жыл бұрын

Ach Ludwig, can't you keep quiet during the concert???

@raymondgood6555

Жыл бұрын

I hear Brahms

아름답습니다

my favorite bit 15:46

@aydenrodriguez5355

4 жыл бұрын

beautiful

That second movement has me entranced

@CarlosMartinez-gr1rp

3 жыл бұрын

Me too ... so hypnotic

I enjoyed this performance quite a bit. I have to say, the pianist seemed to loose track of where everyone else was (tempo wise) in the finale but they pulled it back together. The cello playing is superb throughout.

@ErikWilliamsviolin

Жыл бұрын

I believe this to be intentional. This piece shouldn't sound like it was done to a click track.

The first not gave me chills and it just got better from there.

nice

❤❤❤❤

A dream brought me here.

The violist is truly outstanding. The pianist tries hard not to overpower the others. A bit emaciated.

@BlindeEzel

4 жыл бұрын

You hear a recording. Hard to know how it sounded live. Everyone is outstanding in this amazing performance !!

@shupingwang3392

4 жыл бұрын

@@BlindeEzel The string players give all this music has and their instruments can. The pianist, albeit very musical, does not extract all colours that this piece and indeed his Steinway warrant.

@casalsfan

4 жыл бұрын

Actually, they are all outstanding, individually AND collaboratively. As for balance and tone, perhaps the equipment you are listening with needs to be upgraded? You would be very, very fortunate indeed to attend a live performance of this work that surpasses this one,, I assure you.

@PeterLunowPL

2 жыл бұрын

and thats why this pianist is a fantastic chamber player

Shoooooooow!!!!!

🎶🎶👏🏼🧡grossartig🧡👏🏼🎶🎶

A great composition inspired on Beethoven´s Fifth symphony!

@Jazzguitar00

2 жыл бұрын

If something is in C minor does it automatically make people talk about Beethoven's fifth? Brahms already has pretty famous piece in C minor that people compare to Beethoven...

they set them thar fiddles on fire

Tranquilo

I'm glad they didn't clap between movements, but they still put google pay's annoying ad between movements! Haha

Can anyone once and for all explain to me how on earth Benjamim Britten could have called Brahms a terrible composer? If just doesn't make any sense at all. Obviously Britten was extremely brilliant but how could he possibly have said such a thing about Brahms' amazing compositions?

@frankstein9982

4 жыл бұрын

composers say things like that when they need to put some distance between themselves and the other one. All artists do this; it's not very generous but it happens.

@PeterLunowPL

2 жыл бұрын

@@frankstein9982 sad but true

@Jazzguitar00

2 жыл бұрын

At times Brahms seems like he's imitating Beethoven (and then trying to change some notes around so it's not obvious). Brahms couldn't really escape those comparisons, especially since someone called his 1st symphony "Beethoven's Tenth". I actually used to feel that way too but once you get exposed to more of his pieces you find that it's not always the case. I think the style of the late piano intermezzos is especially unique.

@waterkingdavid

Жыл бұрын

@@Jazzguitar00 Thanks indeed. Makes sense.

@raymondgood6555

Жыл бұрын

ENVY

❤

Who ARE these wunderbar women?