Bedřich Smetana - Piano Trio in G minor, Op. 15

[@h-mh93]

Not only is this a wonderful, deeply emotional piece - but this interpretation by the DEVICH TRIO is superb!

[@Dylonely_9274]

Masterpiece. Thank you Smetana, we owe more recognition than for Moldau because you did more than what we expected from you.

[@fendynathan9287]

1800's to 2000's and people still listening to this piece. so beautiful

[@brettowen7174]

The piano trio is my favourite instrumental combination and this trio one of my top favourites, music is so wonderful.

[@gefechtskehrtwendung9942]

The piano trio is also my favorite ensemble, and this one is my second favorite, but that still says a lot because Tchaikovsky's Piano Trio is my favorite piece of all time

[@Asi1939]

I love Shostakovich piano trios

[@Gacsxis]

This Music changed my life. Thank God for Smetana!

[@renatalinertova526]

I've developed a certain addiction to this piece. After some time of listening to other music, I always end up here.

[@igniss777]

same here!

[@philip.stigaard]

Same

[@gabrielevisentin2083]

Same

[@nathan2026]

beautiful and devastating at the same time, couldnt hold on tears

[@alexrode7858]

me neither

[@margane9590]

Un chef d’œuvre de plus qui nous fut offert Nous sommes passés du monde de la création à celui de l’écoute car notre siècle grâce à la technologie nous permet le meilleur et le tout à portée d’oreilles Incroyable ! GM

[@LukeFaulkner]

Yes, Smetana is underrated. However, whenever I say one of my favourite composers is Medtner, people almost inevitably go "Smetana?"

[@seaoggo9574]

oh hi👋👋👋

[@joachimveith8010]

I love Medtner too, especially his piano sonatas.

[@ErfanFijan]

😂😂

[@thesilvershining]

20:54 - 21:19 is so amazing... I've never heard anything like it. The whole finale has become one of my favorite pieces of music; hauntingly sad yet so vibrant and magical too.

[@ClassicalMusicAndSoundtracks]

What about the end of the finale?

[@francobonanni218]

Fantastic a great masterpiece. It anticipates many other composers. Technically very advanced and very expressive...I wonder if Brahms new this trio. Excellent. Thanks.

[@saidtoshimaru1832]

I will never understand why this work is not that well known.

[@Je1imanek]

because it has no "highlight" part. Almost every other compouser has some famous parts what makes them known

[@Depressioff-uo8qw]

​@@Je1imanekThe start is very memorizable

[@kniazigor2276]

Un des plus grands trios de l'histoire de la musique de chambre, très bien interprété par le trio Devich. Un grand merci à Olla-Vogala pour cette mise en ligne !

[@Sathrandur]

Thankyou so much for uploading. That transformed theme returning at bar 507 (28:15) is so beautiful, bittersweet and cathartic all at once. I can't remember the last time a bit of music drew tears like that.

[@sergiocoste5076]

I completely agree with you, yesterday I listened to the Sibelius' Violin Concerto 3.30-4.40 amazing

[@adriatorras8077]

It s a typical musical transition. You can find it in so many composers.

[@nathan2026]

agreed, words cant describe how it felt

[@andrewpenny4984]

Every time I listen to that moment is like I throw myself in a lake of tears

[@thesheetposter9277]

it gives me shivers

[@ClassicalMusicAndSoundtracks]

I must thank the algorythm of youtube for having given me this fantastic piece!

[@Dylonely_9274]

Likewise…

[@paulwl3159]

Wow, what a great piece of music ! Never came across it before. It needs to be better known. The overall effect is superb and the writing for each instrument exceptional.

[@euomu]

21:32 heart-wrenching

[@marcosPRATA918]

Smetana é nacionalista, romântico e moderno. Cada obra uma surpresa harmonico-instrumental.

[@Quotenwagnerianer]

"Perhaps surprisingly, the work ends in the major mode." I don't find that surprising at all. The episode that came earlier and which then concludes the work sounds to me like he was imagining meeting his daughter in some form of after life where they will be frollicking through meadows together once more. That music is so overjoyed it clearly says: "We will meet again and all will be fine".

[@conan2717]

Quotenwagnerianer i like your interpretation! For me though it sounds almost kind of mad. It reminds me of the similar, overly exultant passage at the end of the exposition in the first movement. It just sounds somehow inappropriate, like the very end of the piece, which is so abrupt. But the thing with those strange moments in music is that they cannot be explained, simply because it's music.

[@DavidA-ps1qr]

Music can be described, but it can never be explained.

[@fernandobernardo6324]

You would wxpect him to go up a semi-tone on the second note but the third note is not the upper Leading-tone. It's the lower one, listen carefully.

[@kecenqian7169]

a Major ending for an elegy suggests heaven, yes. Listen to Frank Bridge's beautiful Lament for his beloved 'Catherine' of the Lusitania

[@valerieheinderyckx4506]

Chef d'oeuvre..❤.

[@harrysoldier2893]

I lived near from Tyn nad Becvou CZ, where Smetana lived. There is Gabrielka way - called after his doughter Gabriela. She died age three years old.

[@samsonwong8121]

00:05 - I. Moderato assai 11:29 - ll. Allegro, ma non agitato 20:05 - lll. Finale. Presto

[@ザニューワールドオーケストラ]

叙情的な表現力がヴルタヴァに匹敵するものがある！ こんな作品も埋もれていたのか…！ もう勿体無さ過ぎる！ スメタナの作品よもっと国際的に知られてくれ！

[@mariamitrea4423]

Although Smetana is quite well known especially if we are talking about czech composers, he is still underrated. There is a single piece by Smetana that people know- Moldau from Ma Vlast, of course, just this specific tone poem from six, not the whole work-. It's the first time I hear an another piece by Smetana besides his famous Moldau. Too bad I didn't searched anything else by him before, but I guess it's never too late.

[@Quotenwagnerianer]

It really depends. To the lay listener he is definately only known through "The Moldau". But the lay listener also only knows Beethoven by the Moonlight Sonata, the opening of the 5th Symphony and the Ode to Joy. So you can't rate how known a composer is by those standards. Ma Vlast is not only Smetanas best known orchestral work, it is also his best orchestral work, period. And among his other works his opera "The bartererd Bride", the First String Quartet "From my life" and this Piano Trio, are the works most widely known. Or rather these should be the works that everybody who heard of Smetana should know.

[@franciswright6578]

Extraordinary. Thank you for posting this.

[@MrGer2295]

BEAUTIFUL ! Thank you for posting !

[@joeboyle5864]

Terrific - and a refreshing change from "Die Moldau".

[@PieInTheSky9]

Critical response was negative?? I'm wondering how much this was revised compared from the original because this is a fantastic piece of romantic literature.

[@emilyla6415]

The themes are amazing. The initial hook is incredibly effective. Total ear-worm. I'm not big on theory, but there seems no lack of complexity - maybe that was a problem before. It's easy for Romantic music to fall into a sentimental, ephemeral slump simply because of the sensitivity of balancing intense emotions with a complicated musical landscape. Or maybe the critics were just soulless automatons. That seemed to happen back then quite a lot...

[@sergioazevedo7390]

The problem with Smetana was not the music in itself, because the general public always liked it, the problem was the nationalism of Smetana in a country ruled by Wien. He represented the inovation, the czech people, the new czech agains the old czechs, and the critics, mainly pro-german or german, could not forgive him.

[@thenameisgsarci]

@@sergioazevedo7390 Great, even maestros can't escape politics. Tsk tsk tsk.

[@euomu]

​@@thenameisgsarciIn fact, they were often involved by choice and/or necessity

[@KieranMclain]

In fact there were significant revisions made to the original piece. The premiere in 1850 of the trio met mixed reviews, however it impressed Franz Lizt, who's approval led Smetana to make revisions to the piece in 1858. The final version of the trio that we know today wasn't published until 1880. Many of Smetana's works were not appreciated for the masterpieces they are until after his death, including some of his operas that were written later in his life. Even his famous string quartet no. 1 was heavily criticized at the time of its release

[@mcrettable]

this seems way ahead of its time

[@ziegunerweiser]

I never seem to get enough smetana

[@felixnolan5628]

i just had the funniest dream of my life - diary of a wimpy kid except it was a gritty action drama with this as it’s theme

[@felixnolan5628]

manny was a cannibal and fucking killed people

[@harryandruschak2843]

I do believe this is the first time I have heard this work. This NOT the sort of thing you will ever hear on the two local classical music stations. In fact, I know from their playlists that they are now braodcasting every 2nd and 3rd rate piece of music that can somehow be tied into the Holiday Season. Merry BAH! and a happy HUMBUG!

[@olla-vogala4090]

+Harry Andruschak Then stop listening to those stations! There are many great internet classical music stations, and of course KZbin and Spotify with an enormous selection of classical music to choose from.

[@harryandruschak2843]

olla-vogala As a matter of fact, I long ago quit listening to those two stations, and now thrive on You Tube. But i did stop by their websites to view their playlists, thats all.

[@jimruggirello5092]

This is a terrific performance.

[@Depressioff-uo8qw]

How

[@davidrehak3539]

Bedrich Smetana:g-moll Zongoratrió Op.15 1.Moderato assai - Piú animato - Tempo rubato - Tempo I - Poco a poco accelerando sin' al fine - Piú accelerando 00:05 2.Allegro, ma non agitato - Alternativo I:Andante - Tempo I - Alternativo II: Maestoso - Tempo I 11:29 3.Finálé: Presto - Meno presto,tranquillo assai - Piú mosso - Tempo I - Meno presto,tranquillo assai - Piú mosso - Grave,quasi marcia - a Tempo I 20:05 Devich Trió

[@Bafftubz10]

YOOOOO THIS IS LIT 💯🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@uxnosidda]

amazing. thanks for posting the score too.

[@marichristian]

I'd rather play the cello part than the piano part with its fist full of chords. Lovely piece and performance.

[@이승준-r2w]

26:10 this melody is similar to Clara Schumann’s scherzo op. 14

[@justRusl]

이승준 incredible! that's a very interesting comparison, I can definitely see the resemblance

[@mariannafucimanova1200]

Miluju to

[@kuschhase7372]

i swear 1:58 best part

[@MBelloni]

28:05! 🌹🥺

[@carl.christiansson]

Is it true that this masterpiece was composed in my home city Gothenburg?

[@ОлександрКрестін]

Second revised edition was finished there. But he began to compose it in 1855 and arrived in Gotheburg 17.10.1856

[@andrewpenny4984]

SMETANA PIANO TRIO BEST MOMENTS: 20:06 23:50 24:20 24:51 27:28 28:16

[@euomu]

You have no ears. The cello solo is objectively by far the most beautiful part of this composition

[@pass_the_tadigh]

Very pretty

[@NotJonJost]

So do composers just deal with loss by writing piano trios? Tchaikovsky, a friend. Clara Schumann, a miscarriage. Smetana, a daughter. Brahms, his mother (although that was with a horn). Are there others?

[@vanderkarbargenbok558]

Dvorák, his mother (op. 65).

[@NotJonJost]

@@vanderkarbargenbok558 Another one! What is it with piano trios?...

[@vanderkarbargenbok558]

@@NotJonJost Don't know. Maybe it is an adequate form for expressing mournful feelings. However, there are plenty piano trios without such a relation.

[@NotJonJost]

@@vanderkarbargenbok558 I guess the next step is to look into mourning-pieces of other genres, and see if mourning-piano-trios happen in any greater frequency than others. 🤔

[@lucyphillipsvln]

Rachmaninov's Trio Elegiaque no. 2 was written in memory of Tchaikovsky.

[@alanleoneldavid1787]

0:56 toxic from britney spears

[@bozodorochenko8872]

Yessss EXACTLY!!!

[@jamessebastianliauw6959]

28:09 ❤

[@RoZita870]

You'd need some big hands to play that piano part. Mine are way too small.

[@achille-claudedebussy8548]

how tall are you?

[@alexanderchater6140]

You can arpeggiate the big chords

[@clarazh8196]

My hands are really really small and I just arpeggiate the chords

[@eddygonzalez6018]

Actually not so much in this piece. If you are referring to those major 2 or semitones an the end of the chord, they are supposed to play them with one finger. Debussy does this in a couple of pieces. I just started going through a sonatina for bassoon and piano, I will be accompanying, and there are lots of those. They are really fun to play. A double octave of G/A. You play the G/A with the thumb and the other with your pinky. Same with some extended and major 2 in between. Play two notes with one finger.😊 Love playing those rare fingering techniques.

[@igniss777]

20:07 😍

[@christianhall4095]

Why is no one talking about the build to 17:31 🤨

[@DressedForDrowning]

So sad, this is so silent. I could be louder.

[@PM_ME_MESSIAEN_PICS]

someone told me he gets off to this

[@freiretrompete1174]

👏👏👏👏

[@choijiwonballetclassmusic]

12:38 15:02 21:34 24:51

[@gigogrom216]

Нет блин Майонез

[@baileyrob]

Who were the 9 lunatics that disliked?

[@KeithOtisEdwards]

Those are people who simply don't like music. The better the music, the more they hate it.

[@joeboyle5864]

De gustibus non disputandum est." I DO like this - quite a lot - but I know some actual musical sophisticates (and one professional composer) who would probably dislike it. Strange...

[@baileyrob]

But to actually make the effort to dislike - it doesn't take a professional 'I dislike this for x, y, and z', it takes an 'oh my god this is so terrible im actually going to scroll over and click this button to express it'. And I just don't understand that. :D

[@joeboyle5864]

I don't UNDERSTAND them - but (I think) my composer friend would probably call this a work contaminated by "Bruch Poisoning" (referring to Max Bruch, whose work I admire also) - perhaps it's too "emotional". It IS a very 'high intensity" piece, but much Czech music is. I'll keep you posted !

[@loganh2140]

Joe Boyle I don't quite understand the idea of too "emotional"

[@pianini704]

27:38

[@user-mz7zz1tx1b]

28:15

[@brennentaggart3291]

21:32

[@euomu]

Yes! Exactly!

[@리미-q8b]

3악장👍

[@Dylonely_9274]

11:03

[@jiminsohn9696]

0:26

[@chasesutherland1168]

6:09

[@zipp_p]

0:05

[@abigailsin2503]

2:22

[@lit6541]

13:00

[@조규상-e9x]

13:9

[@therealcancer48]

I dunno. I dont feel it. :(

[@accipiterignitus5123]

Listen to it few times, you will comprehend it better

[@lukegregg5944]

The 3rd movement is my favourite. Try that.

[@10cabe]

You must be numb!

[@nathanialblower9216]

22 seconds in, violin plays a triplet of quavers as a quaver and two semiquavers. I’m out... Jk!

[@CalebRen]

It seems more like rubato than a misinterpretation of the rhythm...

[@classyclassical]

Check out this video about Bedrich Smetana: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jp-kiZl9jb-mh68 😍🎶😍

[@김지성-t6s]

12:36

[@brennentaggart3291]

28:09

[@coweepei]

21:34

[@조규상-e9x]

13:35

[@조규상-e9x]

13:09

[@stephanjwilliams]

28:07