Brahms - Piano concerto n°2. Mov 1 (part1)

Barenboim, Philh. Munich, Celibidache

[@SebastienLoong]

The best interpretation of this concerto I've heard. Barenboim is soooooo expressive in this piece. He really understands Brahms, the rich warm, passionate and although classicaly strict, the desperate romantic nostalgia that gushes forth.

[@JulianDupuy]

How did thirteen years go by with not even a single like for this comment?

[@mmcrosbie]

Listening to this concerto tonight, I realize that it's combination of the horn and the piano that contributes to the beauty of it for me.

[@Ray0X0]

What a beautiful concert!! full of the Brahms' wildly romanticism ... I can't avoid mentioning the best Brahms' 2nd played ever... Moscow, May 31 1968... performer, Claudio Arrau... the concert that made Emil Gilels to cry of emotion, saying after the concert he could't play Brahms' concerts again... I'd like have been there !! :O

[@AZTIQOT]

Magnifique. En plus, c'est mon concerto préféré de Brahms...

[@alezander666]

holy,truly romantic,dreams.lived basically all his life in a little apartment in berlin,a wizard of the heart,NOBODY can reach such nostalgic clarity like brahms,he also like my favorite composer paul hindemith,TRULY UNIQUE in the age of wagner,and others,he stands alone.

[@gustavocataniaramos]

While all my country was dancing samba, I was at my balcony listening to this beautiful piece of musica. Somehow I got closer from God.

[@PaoYong]

The horn solo at the very beginning brings me back so many memories that I nearly cry every time. I listened to this during my sophomore year in high school and those memories really attached to this piece.

[@Piacevole]

I think the part starting at 8 minutes is absolutely breathtaking. And Barenboim must be an ideal interpreter of Brahms.

[@MimeAscension]

Yes. Many of his contemporaries in the mid/late 19th century were influenced by the Wagnerian school but Brahms did his own thing. What is wonderful was the way he took old Classical forms and created new models based off of them, extending form, harmonies, texture, rhythm...melding conservatism with creativity. Without doubt one of the quintessential romantics, and one of the great evolvers of music.

[@valentinoruti1453]

Desde la excelencia en la virtud, hasta los acordes en el piano que son de una gran belleza. Sepa quien se detiene maravillado, trémulo de ternura y de gratitud, ante cualquier pasaje de la música de Brahms, que yo también me detuve ahí, y ahí, en esa melodía, encontré la fuerza que me faltaba, precisamente ahí, donde usted se detiene.

[@aristotle358]

Ever since I first heard this 2nd piano concerto I've acknowledged Brahms as a musical genius. Daniel plays beautifully here. Thanks for sharing.

[@rfaerron44]

Grandioso, esta musica llega al corazon , ninguna musica me emociona tanto como la de Brahms sobre todo este concierto

[@SebastienLoong]

Your right, it's probably one of the best piano concertos around.

[@cynic150]

One of the best performances I have heard from all concerned. Of the highest order. Barenboim is equal to any other, or better.

[@CoolCumber187]

brahms is beginning to become one of my favourite composers iv failed to find a piece i dont like yet :)

[@andriventu]

THAT'S MUSIC, its beauty is so eternal and perfect that you can't really realize it. Thank you Brahms, thank you Daniel.

[@Doug19752533]

ive played this concerto (1st mvt only) twice, once faster then here and the other time about this tempo. i like this one because you can bring out the clashes of rhythms on the piano like 4 against 3, or 3 against 2 very well and Brahms loved these rhythmic patterns. one of my favorite concertos.

[@verified139]

Agreed. Barenboim. has always played this way, ever since he was a young firebrand. It's never been to my personal taste but he is admired by many. Perhaps Tortelier will lighten up some day and understand that there is more than one way to interpret great music.

[@MrGunterguerrero]

Brahms, a giant...and Barenboim absolutely perfect !

[@MagnusAnand]

Barenboim is just amazing! Great conductor and pianist, there are not many like him :)

[@romanitza24]

@odisap Exactly!! I remember the first piece of music I heard by Brahms (after the Hungarian dances") was his 1st piano concerto, and I was kind of puzzled to be honest and didnt like it, than I jusut gave it another shut and completely fell in love, I could not believe it, especially when the piano enters it is pure bliss, it brings you to tears. i was 13 years old back then. After, I begun looking for more of his masterpieces, and almost always I couldnt get them the 1st time, only the 2nd.

[@llcamus249]

I love reading the comments of all the musicans...wish I had talent. All I can do is listen and love it all - espically Brahms.

[@irmagvarama]

my favorite piece of Brahms... brilliant...

[@kingjepoy]

The maestro does it again! A magnificent work!

[@uhartchristian]

Barenboim is the musician of our time. Nobody did work so much as him and do so much different works during his long carèer. He knows nearly all repertory which is common and not so common in the concertprograms, for orchestre and for piano... in Paris he did up to three different programs per week (as conducter and as pianist)....

[@clamanus]

This dialog between piano and orchestra is wonderful, powerful: 4:40-5:10. You want to live for listening to it.

[@avq5]

I love how the concert grand is always at the forefront of the stage in classical music.

[@swanningaround]

Barenboim is primarily a pianist. That what he is famous for. He is also a great conductor. To me, this is Richter's piece. As for having a technique! Barenboim is the very best of pianists around. We grew up with him in the 60s and 70s. His interpretations are always right on the mark. The big danger is that many of us use him as a benchmark as to how it should sound. He is also a great guy with his humanitarian work.

[@paulostroff99]

Awesome.TY bugopolo for posting this gem of a performance

[@chopin5440]

Bösendorfer, you can tell by the sharp break on the back end. This giant instrument was made to fill a huge room. I also think bright is good for this particular work. It really brings out the extreme lyricism Brahms calls for from both ends of the piano. Very raw, and exposed. It is a piano concerto. The piano is the solo instrument, Let it be heard!!!!

[@mikeinkc]

What are you people talking about?? Barenboim and Brendel are BOTH superb pianists and musicians..I enjoy BOTH of them!

[@johnnyctba]

Fantastico !!! Brahms é um dos melhores sem duvida !!!

[@PaoYong]

@rlabarbe 100% true. NO ONE will ever get Brahms at first listening. But 2nd or 3rd and you are hooked for LIFE. It will move you to tears.

[@rinsim]

Beautiful Concerto, beautiful interpretation.

[@m1290h]

I totally thought the same thing too! He plays so differently to his current videos.

[@aristotle358]

@ueblondon I agree entirely. It is not only my favourite Brahms but also magisterial in its design/composition. Extraordinary and outstanding masterpiece.

[@PaoYong]

@Umslopagas I agree. Brahms is hard to follow at first. I gave up listening to his symphonies twice, but third time I FELL IN LOVE with them. You have to hear the individual melodies carefully.

[@genevievespianostudio]

I am learning this one and watched the NZSO play it - fabulous concerto!

[@diabelli4life]

God speaking by means of the concise voice of Brahms!

[@aristotle358]

What a genius was Brahms! And what an interpretation!

[@VivaRenata]

@davidoff9764 I have been unhappy about the interpretation of Romantic music for a long time. But I had the privilege of hearing the Canadian pianist Marc-André Hamelin in Edinburgh only two weeks ago, playing Beethoven's 4th concerto. And was amazed - a living, innate sense of rubato and cadenzas for the 1st and 3rd movements that he himself had composed. Anyway - that marriage has become a subject of memoirs and movies - but she was a wonderful cellist and I heard her once, in Chicago.

[@KhagarBalugrak]

Well, Barenboim does as much as one can do with this piece. I've never liked Brahms, but Barenboim keeps your attention throughout the piece, and prevents it from becoming boring.

[@pedroalbertosierraespinoza865]

FANTASTICO.... ambos maestros PASIERRA

[@MrArchimarky]

@raysalsa1 Are you asking about the concerto as a whole, or just this first movement. Because as a whole, it represents Brahms coming into the later part of his compositional career whereby his unique exotic european sound is deflty folded into the purity and balance of classical form. So, even in this first movement, it is not supposed to be stormy, or indeed representing anything other than the power of pure music. That was what Brahms was all about (also the reason he was "different"

[@hugoagogo13]

in his dynamics in playing piano, so powerfull but with much feeling. He is also a very good conductor I think.

[@Umslopagas]

Brahms' music has always been - with few exceptions in his earlier works - quite subtle, the first time you listen to Brahms' you'll probably feel like listening to a cacophony of sounds, but listen carefully, the main theme is usually played by the most obscure of the instruments, don't let yourself be dragged to follow the wood-winds for too long, the piano and strings alternate bass and treble here, keep with them, they'll set the tone.

[@Doug19752533]

the tempo for the first movement is allegro ma non troppo which means "lively but not too lively" remember ALLEGRO, or ANDANTE, and the like are not specific tempos but more mood indications

[@paulostroff99]

Superb! TY bugopolo for posting.

[@andreea140794]

The conductor ,Celebidache ,was born in the same city I was born ! I'm so proud :D

[@stomachpunch]

good interpretation-full bodied-the recording of Rudolf Serkin with the Cleveland Orchestra is a favorite

[@fercorno1]

Es mi obra favorita, simplemente extraordinario!

[@Sim882]

The 8 minute mark - the difficult piano exposition followed by the orchestra tutti - is surely one of the finest things ever written? In concerto, I can only think of Tchaikovsky 1 from about 8-12 minute mark being of similar brilliance. And except for maybe Tchaikovsky 6th symphony, I can think of many passages of music having greater emotional force

[@TheAlonetogether]

Elle fallait s'y attendre. Là où s'arrête la virtuosité des uns comment l'apparition des autres. Et comme toujours, Brahms et son refus de s'engager dans le mariage et l'opéra, réussit à magnifier le piano pour lui faire dire les quartes à vides de certains. Mais cela, c'est de l'histoire ancienne. Celibidache et son voyage en Russie ont fait davantage pour la musique allemande de Gould pour la musique d'orlando Gibbons.

[@cziffra1980]

Bollocks it's down the piano. Look at the sheer force he attacks the thing with! No wonder it sounds so rough.

[@etucker82]

This movement sounds like a great performance in slow motion.

[@iam23years3old]

the conductor is such a badass.

[@TJFNYC212]

It works for me............... I love the tempestuous element in the 1st movement I have always been drawn to Gilels interpretation...... but this works

[@m1290h]

How could anyone not like this video? I just don't understand!

[@UlasAktok]

All this god talk under these pure works of art and intellect created by geniuses who had music down to a science and the ability to put emotion into everything they did... And people reducing it to simplistic unintelligent explanations like "he knew about, was getting a personal visit from or was close to god" It's a shame. Makes me mad and sad. Even more than this magnificent piece itself can. I thought I'd never get involved in these discussions but I just couldn't hold myself back.

[@paulostroff99]

Astounding.TY b for posting

[@IsisSlovenska]

@MrGunterguerrero splendid!!

[@PaoYong]

@1illtown Wow. That little section is so powerful. I feel so weak compared to the immense power of this.

[@alvinkuo777]

Most classical music connoisseurs have their own preferences, and the differences between Brahms and Schumann vs. Wagner and Mahler are pretty significant enough that it come down to personality and what kind of music the person likes. I've seen countless people who dislike Wagner, Mahler, Brahms, Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky, Bruckner, etc. Music is subjective, and very few pieces are universally liked (Beethoven's 9th is one example).

[@rodstartube]

baremboin loves hammering his pianos

[@yvesvangelre]

@Sim882 For me, I sense a tremendous longing in the music of Brahms. Probably a longing for Clara Schumann (wife of the composer and a celebrated pianist), or maybe for the great love he never had. Brahms was very unlucky in relationships. Clara was 14 years older and perhaps she saw their relationship only platonic. Other engagements were ended quickly. The story goes that Brahms swore not to love again, because he felt that the fulfilment of love demised his music. A noble sacrifice for art.

[@cuoylyf]

Magnifique!!

[@aneloBannA]

Magnifico!!!!!!

[@capthook1]

I'm sorry to see all the fuss... This is beautiful music played well. No need to freak-out folks, just enjoy the music for your own sake. At the end of the day, all that matters is what YOU feel inside- not someone else. Musicians should stick together!

[@sab3156]

Barenboim is falsely famous, just like the violinst Joshua Bell and the guitarist John Williams. He plays this concerto with many mistakes, and his notes are all one-dimensional. Alfred Brendel plays with such beauty and relevance. His playing has structure, and his notes are shaped so perfectly. I wouldn't know about insomnia, because I have never had it, but if you like Barenboim over Brendel, then you definately suffer from it.

[@jorgealbertobaron]

GRAN OBRA, SINFONIA CON PIANO

[@yossiban]

This is awesome!!!

[@belialah]

My Favorite Brahms Work :)

[@nuevopianista]

es lo maximo!!!!

[@rawautube]

@pointreyes6 Man oh man the amazing thin is that no body know's about your great conducting talent!!!!

[@federicoabologna]

I am glad to hear that (I suppose you are thinking of the horn sound in the second part of the first movement)! Supposedly, I was not the only one!

[@rairaibvlog]

Great sharingg

[@TJFNYC212]

shuddup all of you anyone who can put these notes together is awesome...................I am not a great admirer of DB but this is great Emil Gilels recording is the best coupled with the 1st

[@aaabbbccc5]

Barenboim is a great Master!

[@SuperMANgino]

well said bager. Thank You

[@pianofan86]

I love Baremboim's playing. It's communicating so well. Why do you say he forgot Brahms?? I think it's a beautiful interpretation. Personnally, I prefer this to the Zimmerman recording. It seems more touching to my sense.

[@javiermarting]

A general comment here is that Brahms music needs time to be understood. I couldn't disagree more; Brahms is absolutely transparent; what you hear is what it is, and you can catch it perfectly in just one or two hearings. On the other side, we could have Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Berg or even Wagner. For those you sure need time, but not for Brahms. By the way, an excellent performance, one of the best I know. Thanks for posting.

[@javiermarting]

@maestrojeremy Don't get me wrong: his 1st symphony is one of the best, his 1st Piano concerto is still my favourite piano concerto... Regarding counterpoint complexity, agreed. But that's all. The era of tonality was reaching an end, and Brahms was still composing "his" music. Whatever Schoenberg said, I find his music has little in common with Brahms. Tannhäuser sounds much more modern than his 4th symphony, and it was composed 50 years earlier! Brahms influence in music history is thus small.

[@mehandas]

I have it from Greatest Pianist series volume 36. You might be able to download it from some site.

[@bootleg156]

there's a reason why we have choice when it comes to pianos. Yamaha has a very bright tone, while steinway is a little more mellow. I personally have to side with steinway because the touch of the piano is only rivaled by Bosendorfer. Yamaha tends to have a muddy bass and piercing treble, but still a very solid piano none the less

[@stomachpunch]

childs play?-each concerto has its own merits regarding difficulty and musicality-from Mozart to present-both Brahms concerti are outstanding and formidable challenges for any pianist-and extremely difficult pianistically-R and L I am should would agree

[@KhagarBalugrak]

@theViolinDreamer, music isn't subjective. It's objective. Our experience of it is subjective, but music as an external, real thing does exist. Either any give moment in a piece is powerfully expressive, or it isn't, or perhaps it's somewhere in between. And of course this is heavily modified by the performer(s) themselves. But in the end, whatever is played has a certain objective amount of expressiveness. We may never be totally accurate in our perceptions, but we must try.

[@wxsty]

Celibidache the Maestro!!!

[@amajowanna]

AMAZING

[@aaabbbccc5]

Barenboim is a Pianogod!

[@m1290h]

and the F minor Clarinet/Viola sonata. Also the Piano quintet... and the string quintet in G major. OMG and Violin Sonata in G major. Actually, everything.

[@KhagarBalugrak]

I went to Eastman School of Music and studied under Barry Snyder. I also had a few lessons with Eugene Istomin, so really, you can't tell me I don't have credentials.

[@davlor86]

GREAT

[@petie32]

Celibidache used to be a monster. Now he has grown into an older conservative. Nic e piece. Brahms is what Beethoven wanted to be.

[@peace-now]

Sorry to disappoint everyone. I think Danny has over-analysed this. I honestly think this is Richter's themesong. I loved the younger Danny playing some of the Beethoven Sonatas - especially to so called "Moonlight Sonata".

[@SatchmoSings]

Now you know where John Williams got the idea for the theme of "Star Wars;" even the key is the same! (The "Animal House" theme is also Brahms; his "Academic Festival Overture.")

[@cziffra1980]

That is not a myth. Think about it. The hammer receives a varying degree of force over a period of time. Different strikes will cause the hammer shaft to bend differing degrees. I can then spring back mid-flight. The idea that there is only a single velocity is absoulte bullshit. A heavy blow knocks the hammer away quickly. A smooth push can apply as much energy more gradually.

[@ssj3mohan]

@SixthSenseDeejay yeah... somebody told me Brahms could lising some music in his heart. And they say, Brahms knew about god. The true is,sometimes peaple like brahms came to makes us remember what we are.

[@aristotle358]

My favourite Brahms. I have come across better performances but it is a delight to hear Barenboim on this performance.

[@Sim882]

If you read what I wrote more recently I admit my first opinion on this was very wrong. Yes its emotional - extremely so, beautiful, grand and brilliant. I have never been more wrong about a song. I bought Julius Katchen's version and its oustanding

[@malonu157]

If people want to say their opinion on something,I think they should. We just have to learn,that we don't have to judge each others thoughts. Then there will be no fights etc.