Brahms: Piano trio in B major, op.8

[@robertcohn8858]

Beautiful performance. Bravo to this talented group, and many thanks for posting.

[@benheideveld1152]

Beautiful, I’m coming back to this crisp performance for many years now…

[@marusabogataj2944]

Thank you

[@MrTennis88]

I grew up withy this music, my parents had the version with Casals at the Prades Festival. This is in my DNA. This and the Schubert C major quintet are for me the top of chamber music, so melodic, just genius. Whenever I show this video to friends of mine they always fall in love with the cellist, and rightly so!

[@POLOSANCHEZC]

Listening your preformance I realized why I was born (and why I had to take all the madness the world has given me). To love my daughters, to love Lucy, my lady, and to listen to Brahms as you bring him to life. Thank you very much. Polo (Mexico)

[@carlosgarciasaltillo1135]

+Leopoldo Sánchez Cantú HERMOSO PENSAMIENTO, FELICIDADES.

[@Rx-mn5fv]

Brahms - the builder of great music. Always the craft of everything in its place while not omitting a variety of emotions throughout it all. The playing of these young musicians brought it all to light. Bravo!

[@gerardbegni2806]

This is by far the best of the three trios for piano, violin and cello of Brahms. The two others have the mark of maturity, but here we find all the sensibility and th lyric mood of his beginning. The two first movements have alays emoted me quite deeply. The slow movement is less intense in my view. The interpretation is excellent

[@davehshs651]

Exceptional, beautiful performance! And great sound quality, too. Thanks for sharing.

[@gerardbegni2806]

This trio is probably the masterwork of youth pieces of Brahms and his best ttrio.

[@connylemmens2353]

I love this piece. And Marusa is my favourite cello player. Thanks a lot for this enjoyment.

[@shy8371]

Cant take my eyes off the cellist she plays so easily when in fact the notes are in quite high notes for cello.I love your performance thank you♡

[@zenoky64]

This is a remarkable performance. Their musicianship and communication is so genuine and beautiful. I have listened to this several times and enjoy it immensely. Thank you.

[@purplepeoplepurple]

00:33 Allegro con brio 10:49 Scherzo 17:11 Adagio 26:01 Allegro

[@davehshs651]

Thanks.

[@jmlfa]

Absolutely fabulous. Unique. I have watched the performance three times in a row now. Thank you so very much.

[@gdugan2]

Wow! Gave me chills. What extremely talented people! Beautifully done!!!

[@Bianpet]

Wow, one of the best performances I've heard! Amazing expression from both of them

[@altareggo]

Oh YEAH!!!!!!!! This is top-notch stuff. These splendid musicians have captured, in my humble opinion, the creative and incredibly moving explosion or genius that was Brahms. I particularly admire the cellist: she is AMAZING!! She brings out such a warm, vibrant tone from her instrument: i am deeply impressed.

[@dougdumbrill7234]

I’m sure I say this in each version I watch, but again, lovely cello sound! There must be an army of you out there!😉👏👏👏

[@TeclasBrasil]

Amazing performance, amazing musicians! I'm in love with cellist S2

[@jeanlavoie1302]

A wonderfully enjoyable listening experience ! Warm and sensitive music-making by generous, consummate artists ! Congratulations . . .

[@boondoggle6]

From the first note to the last this is a truly spell-binding performance, each musician perfectly interpreting this gorgeous music. Even the page-turner looked engrossed in the proceedings, feeling every note as it spun into the air.

[@zevnikov]

+boondoggle6 This page turner guy is actualy maestro Nejc Bečan, conductor of Gimnazija Kranj Symphony Orchestra and close friend of Maruša and Matjaž :) Check out my chanel for more interesting videos.

[@harryheap7858]

zevnikov

[@dirkboriskestel8499]

Bravo! Bravo! Bravo! Thank yo for posting!

[@ivansuys]

Magnifique interpretation tout en finesse vive les Slovenes

[@peterschwager4464]

Wonderful! I very much enjoy listening to this.

[@laurajuliethope]

hey cello playing... OMG SO GOOD. Something about it is just so emotional and beautiful and careful. It's not cocky either, i love it

[@yanobach]

i think same... play very beautiful

[@htstd73]

really really great performance. Bravo to all of you.

[@ralphberney7768]

Why is the music of Brahms so dynamic and moving , rooted in so fundamental a foundation that allows and inspires such creative liberty in expression: this fabulous performance may not answer the question directly but by their craft and love this superb trio surely illustrate, confirm so intuitively, that glorious beauty and celebration of soul.

[@tronduick7028]

I think it is one of the fundamental questions in all classical music, and I think you answer it about as well as words can. Brahms is to me the most abstract of all composers but he still gets the pathos and lyricism in there. And man can these guys play it! (Guys in the vernacular only, you understand.) Thanks to all.

[@nobfodder24]

Wow! my friend you just swallowed the english dictionary and it came out your shit flute. What you said makes near enough no sense. Read it again. You say confirm so intuitively bla bla. Unless you meant conform.

[@duncanrichardson2167]

@klaus peter kraa I guess that the vulgar max bevans was responding to Ralph Berney but did not have the wit to place his comment properly.

[@ciclismo360]

Excellente performance! Thanks for not doing excessive theatrics! :-)

[@snowcarriagechengcheng-hun3454]

Thanks for uploading!

[@root6170]

Second that. A favorite Brahms piece. It gives me tears.

[@musico981]

Bravi.. e molto carina la violoncellista paciocca.. dal suono e intonazione molto puliti, ottima tecnica!

[@isabs8616]

Waou !!! excellent !!!!!!

[@PatrikCornelius846]

Excellent performance

[@MrAndersonterry]

Very nicely done!!!

[@egb1967]

@Lexicop2...if you would like to hear how Brahms was so obsessed with this work and his own ideas on how to economize the work listen to this original version. BRAHMS Piano Trio No. 1 B Major (1. Version 1854) 1. Mov.

[@felixdevilliers1]

Often the strings can't be heard clearly enough; this time they are very clear. Lovely music.

[@yhg2011]

outstanding

[@amoursfragiles]

De toute beauté!

[@jaymeportugal2232]

O piano merece mais destaque.

[@ricardomoura1780]

jayme portugal especialmente no Scherzo. Preferiram mostrar o rosto do casal no celo e violino à performance no piano.

[@photonomist6345]

Yes - the cellist is a little too strong in the mix and the piano sometimes not strong enough - she plays so well and the role is not as "accompanist". The camera work implies that subordinate role too. But a small quibble as they interpret this great piece so well!

[@wertherquartett]

I've always loved this composition but I wouldn't say it's Brahms's "best" chamber piece, though naturally these things are a matter of opinion and personal taste. This is of course the revised version of 1889, more concise and less rambling than the original version of 1854, which is rarely heard these days. But I find it amazing that Brahms was able to write a piece of this stature at the age of 21. And I agree, this is a superb, exhilarating performance. I haven't heard better.

[@AlamoCityCello]

BRAVO!

[@thomasding5574]

Geez this is awesome

[@francescosinopoli7308]

Great!

[@shin-i-chikozima]

Great！I pray so that glory and a blessing and awful happiness come to the players who are excellent, vigorous andcheerful.:;Are you who listen to this music a person of what country ？ please tell me it .

[@cbentler4528]

It must take off so much pressure when each instrument comes in it's own time, not all at once. But then again, the piano player is responsible for setting the pace. :)

[@maps600]

C Bentler That’s actually not true. When good chamber musicians have an entrance together they make eye contact, which makes timing a lot easier. When you are alone, you have to be as rhythmically accurate as possible - especially in a piece where the tempo is constantly changing speed, this presents a much larger challenge.

[@lisaragsdale1530]

@@maps600 Which reminds me: I rarely saw the cellist turn a page of music on her stand and I wonder if she had the entire work memorized. That would not surprise me because as both a flutist and pianist I always memorized the entire work before I would play it before an audience.

[@elchucabagra]

Heck yes

[@SalvadorFernandezLUQUE]

Bellisima

[@minka866]

The 1st Theme of 3rt movemnt is dark.

[@Quotenwagnerianer]

The 1889 version performed here always puzzles me. I prefer the original 1854 version, despite the fact that it is much less focused.

[@moiAntonin]

Hier je jouais mon DVD de Istomin,Rose & Sterne en jouant ce sonate en 1975. Ces trois hommes jouaient comme Dieu Lui meme. Ces trois jeunes gens, en comparaison, n'etaient que des gamins qui s'amusaient dans la rue. Hey Ho. C'est la vie ( mais pas la musique! :)

[@davidedwards1885]

good

[@Tamadehenzhan]

gut

[@pyyntheski]

I try hard, really hard, to see merit in Brahms, but ever see a moderately talented artisan struggling to overcome his limitations, wandering around lost, hoping that inspiration will strike, but it never does. Even this excellent performance cannot redeem him, for me. The work analogises to reading a clumsy, confused proof a theorem, when an elegantly concise proof is available.

[@FWGOTHAM]

Kids say the darndest things.

[@iggyreilly2463]

"I know nothing about music" would have been a much more elegant, concise version of your statement.

[@richardcarle2650]

Gee, i tried to find the masterpieces written by plinthesky, but must have missed them

[@e21big]

FWGOTHAM I assured you, no kids would have made such statement or even if they are, they will be actually seriously listen before even come close to that conclusion. While, I too, will have to disagree, the overall quality of your people comments make me sick.

[@erickverran653]

piinthesky “The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I feel it's not beautiful? And very shortly you discover there is no reason.”

[@egb1967]

We missed two bars of a first ending here.

[@rjones2209]

Please don't bother recording the original (1854) version of this. Hearing it just once was enough for several lifetimes!

[@egb1967]

@Lexicop2...Are you JOKING? Many if not MOST performances do not repeat the exposition in this first movement. The repeated exposition is in many cases a formality that does not conform with the balance of the entire movement.

[@tronduick7028]

egb1967 One hundred percent in agreement with you. To call these musicians morons is to show oneself a boor.

[@seanscott9186]

The pianist keeps rushing the string players, as if she can't choose a pace. It throws off the entire piece and makes me anxious of catastrophe. You can see the violinist come in late at 2:15 and the cellist raise her eye brows at it.

[@KeithOtisEdwards]

This is the only critical comment about a classical music performance on the whole of KZbin that calls it right. She does make a minutely tardy entrance. The tempo is much faster than my preference, but fast tempi are common these days. Not the finest ever, but still, it's a beautiful performance.

[@SiekamenAustralien]

Weitermachen ;)

[@chuck4fve]

The piano is off-mike. Excellent players all.

[@rjones2209]

First-rate performance but mystifying about their names. I guess the performers are Slovenian, but then how come the group is called "Munich Artistrio"? And I note that the city of Munich is called Múnchen in Germany. Maybe Munich means something else in Slovenia?

[@zevnikov]

Matjaž and Maruša are from Slovenia. They studied chamber music as postgraduate students in Munich. Munich is their alma mater for chamber music. Katarina has german roots and she is from Ukraine. They are among best performers in Europe. They all play in first rate orchestras!

[@rjones2209]

zevnikov "They are among best performers in Europe." I was able to work that out for myself!

[@Lexicop2]

"Amazing performance"? This may well be Brahms' best chamber piece, but it's better when played in its entirety. I noticed that the length of this performance came in several minutes lower than those of other postings of this piece: Sure enough, this performance amputates four minutes or so from the first movement. What's truly "amazing" is that supposed musicians still seem to think that this is OK.

[@PaulVinonaama]

It just skips the repetition of the exposition section.

[@nobfodder24]

Whenever you click on a piece of interesting classical music it is always the case that some thoughtful faux-philosophical twat goes and ruins it with some seriously anoyying bullshit!!!!!

[@hexag1441]

+max bevans How is the music 'interesting'? How did you reach that conclusion? If you have reasons, they can be explained thoughtfully and analyzed. Which is what these twats are doing, hence the pointlessness of this post.

[@nobfodder24]

Cock cheese aka stilton my friend.

[@apocalipsisbrando1]

very fast squerzo

[@johnmueter378]

This performance could hardly be called 'amazing'. It is on the level of a good student performance. Somebody is trying too hard to market this group. It doesn't hold a candle to the Beaux Arts Trio or half a dozen other professional recordings.

[@zevnikov]

Come on. You are snob. Can you for once enjoy first class musical experience? Can you listen and watch with honest heart and bright soul?

[@johnmueter378]

There is no need to be rude. You are welcome to your opinion and I am allowed to express my own.

[@saparchitekt]

John Mueter Dear Mister Mueter, I just did what you suggested and listened to the only Beaux Arts rendition of this Brahms jewel. It was played twelve beats slower than the one by the young musicians (128-116). Brahms requires Allegro (com moto) so at least 120. Beaux Arts starts out at Allegretto. Perhaps you like the slower pace. I enjoy this piece more at the tempo it was played in this video. I cannot explain why, and perhaps explaining is irrelevant. However, if you bring the qualification student level, it comes across as unripe, lacking, artificial, at least to me. If my associations with your qualifications are not your intent, please take me by the hand and show me where it shows that these musicians have a way to go. They would probably agree with you they have a lot to learn still, but please show the KZbin audience of which I am but one, where we can hear the difference with renditions that you would agree are virtuoso. I think classical music appreciation would benefit and musicians would not be putting in all of their effort in vain if the audience can competently take the measure of their mastery. Please give us three hints where this trio has space to grow.

[@MrTennis88]

How about the Casals, Isaac Stern, Myra Hess performance at the Prades music festival, that is the version I grew up with and have always loved. Is that performance good enough for your elevated tastes? In spite of having been raised on the "best" I love this performance, its is wonderful, great tone, fine interpretation, lively. Good grief, Music is not a perpetual &^%$# contest to see who is the winner. Sometimes it is possible to simply enjoy beauty without classifyings its exact degree. Oh the internet, there is always at least one provocateur with nothing better to do. I'm certain that its an "accomplished" group these provocateurs.

[@Lexicop2]

This is what I term a "Venus de Milo" performance: Sure, it's a lovely work of art, but there's a big chunk of it missing--the morons failed to repeat the exposition in the first movement. There is no call to mutilate Brahms that way, unless you don't like the music. . . . So why play it?

[@duncanrichardson2167]

we do not know if they were any time pressure (or the video has been edited) so if the ommissions were (as suggested above) of repeats I can forgive them

[@debwagner7505]

Lexicop2 People today have short attention spans.