Brahms - 3 Intermezzi, Op. 117 (Julius Katchen)

[@zomurai100]

やはり、すばらしい。この方のブラームスはほんとに言葉にならないほどすばらしくて、胸を撃たれます。

[@Bortki]

Katchen and Brahms, perfect combination !

[@hotbrains4164]

This op. 117 by Katchen is absolutely marvellous. Best version ever.

[@BiarritzMania64200]

Peut-être les plus belles notes jamais écrites pour le piano jouées comme elles ne l'ont jamais été, par un des rares immenses artistes qui les ait comprises dans leur haute noblesse

[@benjaminpinhas2743]

Et Kempff?

[@BiarritzMania64200]

@@benjaminpinhas2743 ils sont des himalaya du piano. Alors peut-être aussi ? Et, évidemment, Radu Lupu

[@meredith218461]

I cant imagine these quiet introspective late works receiving a more sensitive and understanding interpretation.

[@bronxboy47]

This recording was my introduction to the Op. 117. Already a Brahms lover, this recording fixed Brahms in my heart forever.

[@pats2942]

Bruno Walter recounts in his memoirs that Mahler, whose young assistant he was, told him that he had one time visited old Brahms in Wien and that he had found him glued to his stove, shivering with cold, sick, and alone, so alone. When I hear these pieces by Katchen, that's what I think of. Which other pianist, in these pieces, makes us want to console our old Brahms, to sit next to him, to tell him of our love? For the last Brahms, there is only one pianist, and I fear there will never be another. In any case, none of these show-business stars with oversized egos, who should simply be banned from playing these pieces.

[@giancarlomazzocchi4443]

Thanks

[@BiarritzMania64200]

ah, ah ! That's really the truth for the ovezides egos. but in our himalaya of the pianists of this op 117, let's not forget Radu Lupu

[@dexterhaynes5754]

GLORIOUS!!!...KATCHEN WAS (IS) A MAGNIFICENT ARTIST.

[@birdemetvideo]

Know this from Suputoniku no Koibito .. love it !

[@rerechan8440]

Miu brought me here..and i love it

[@khool63]

kahen reste une référence

[@floriangeiss3331]

There's only one interpretation on par with Katchen's: Arcadi Volodos'.

[@joachimkrist1464]

I agree

[@lefinlay]

I also love Gliels, Lupu, Pogorelich, Gould, and Sokolov

[@spfqr4977]

1. 00:00 2. 05:13 3. 09:47

[@joyceoneal3380]

The harmonic rhythm is so hard to present; a surprise every moment. Accenting every surprise impedes the flow. He controls that. The climax could be a little stronger.

[@khool63]

katchen un des plus grands brahmsiens , disparu trop jeune ,, écoutez ces pièces de brahms jouées par valentina lisitsa un vrai coup de foudre ,, sur youtube ,, quelle grande pianiste bosendorfer ,, katchen aurait apprécié le jeu prodigieux de valentina ,, vous ne le regretterez pas ,,quelle grâce

[@Bortki]

Je ne vois pas vraiment ce qui vous fait associer ces deux interprètes aux pianismes diamétralement opposés, d'un côté l'évidence et la simplicité, de l'autre la mièvrerie et les effets faciles...

[@ewaldsteyn469]

This is played with wonderful beauty. However, in my opinion none the less not the greatest recording of op 117. Radu Lupu play it with even more beauty. And when I compare especially no 1 of both Lupu and Katchen with that of Backhaus, I cannot help but feel that the great German pianist makes more of the music than Lupu ad Katchen.

[@NickBottom]

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