It takes you through this long journey and when you get to the last chord you feel that you’ve reached the end. From the first phrase to the last there’s so much expectation. Beethoven's overlooked worksįor me, the Clarinet Quintet documents all the feelings associated with Brahms: it’s like his life story.
I want to mention the horn melody near the start which is straight from the Alps, and is a miracle of sound for me. When the melody appears, it’s like the sun shining suddenly after this dark introduction. The young composer had the ingenuity to build his own universe. It’s so soft compared to the huge chorale in Beethoven Nine – Beethoven was a great father-figure presence in Brahms’s life, but he was just an example for Brahms. The darkness, the complexity and the almost mystic start to the movement blossoms with Brahms’s big chorale-like melody in the major key The majesty and the mysteriousness of the fourth movement of the First Symphony still remains for me a superior piece of mastery. The best pieces for flute: our top picks.
And he makes you feel like you’re embracing somebody very warmly. Playing Brahms’s chamber music is like taking a bath with essential oils. 26 – and then you have an idea of what Brahms can be. 25 in the first part of a concert, then Op. There’s a phrase in that movement when the violin and cello play together which seems to come from the sky. You can feel his youth in it and you can sense, in the slow movement, his tenderness. 26 is a mix of a piano concerto and chamber music, with one of the most amazing slow movements. Every time I read through it, it reaches me somehow. But it’s not trying to be intellectual it’s just very open, very honest, very clear.
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