BRAHMS: Trio No. 1 in B major, Op. 8 - ChamberFest Cleveland (2018)

Johannes Brahms
Trio No. 1 for Piano, Violin and Cello in B major, Op. 8
I. Allegro con brio
II. Scherzo: Allegro molto
III. Adagio
IV. Allegro
Alexi Kenney, violin
Oliver Herbert, cello
Roman Rabinovich, piano
Live performance from ChamberFest Cleveland Season 7
June 16, 2018
Mixon Hall at the Cleveland Institute of Music
Cleveland, Ohio
www.chamberfestcleveland.com/
(c) 2018 ChamberFest Cleveland
Video production:
Erica Brenner Productions
Cameras: Ken Wendt, Ian Dobie
Audio engineer: Bruce Egre
Video editing: Erica Brenner

[@melissat9120]

That cellist plays so naturally and beautifully. It's neither contrived nor showy. A true gift.

[@nickyork8901]

the first cello entry is so beautiful, it seems to grow out of the piano's entry completely organically.

[@jennamaykim9167]

so great. I love that young people are playing this piece. the cellist

[@aronlescsinszky1127]

This Brahms Op. 8 is the best i have ever came across.

[@twinwankel]

One of the most moving pieces in the history of music. Brahms was always uncertain whether to revise a youthful piece or not. Boy am I glad he did. Even though the original is a great piece at any age, it definitely has more youthful vigor. However, I just love the craftsmanship he brought to the piece. As a fan of the genre, it is my favorite piano trio and the Ravel trio is second. And even though I have heard various performances of the work by many artists, I have not heard one that I dislike because the music just seems to transcend the musicianship. It is a complete trio with great movements in all but I just love the opening. It starts off with such an elegant theme but soon transforms into passion that only Brahms can compose. To think it was composed by such a young man is astonishing. A great performance by this group. Brahms would have been proud. Thank you for the upload.

[@dianevasil1046]

Exquisite!

[@Ashok410]

Yeah, this piece is a tear-jerker for ne

[@mrjourneyman]

Absolutely could not agree more. And a great performance from these young lads!

[@hervedupre7894]

Not a fan of Brahms, but when he's really himself like in this opus, or for example op 116 117, he surpasses the greater composers. Such pieces are literally burning from inside. Touching heaven. Exceptional, surnatural, 🙃🙂. I like the playing of the cellist. Wonderful, the level of Beethoven chamber music, with more sensitivity and delicacy 🎉

[@lolamagnanini6653]

Johannes.and Clara.and Robert. Intensity,attention and care. Tenderness,kindness,gentleness.what a sublime trio!

[@cheewanng6138]

OMG! Their touches and the controls.....

[@angeline9774]

Allegro con brio 0:13 Scherzo 14:41 Adagio 21:14 Allegro 29:45

[@misssarahashplant31]

Thank you for providing the time stamps. I am for the house with the narrow gate.

[@cmli1918]

Thank you :)

[@acro2688]

thank you :) love you

[@alfiiamansi]

Best performance of this trio I found on KZbin

[@muslit]

The Stern-Istomin-Rose is better.

[@alfiiamansi]

@@muslit I like this more, Stern trio play to much as old retired people 😆😆😆

[@tonylogan4092]

@@alfiiamansi Do not be an ablelist, Alf!

[@idrisbalavakos]

I felt this through my screen. This is an example of mastering a piece to the point which emotion is evoked in every noted, every harmony.

[@richardgibbs8469]

Wonderful musicality. This piece reaffirms Brahms as my favorite composer.

[@EuniceCChina]

Every moment of this is absolutely stunning and heart-warming.

[@BrianMegilligan]

All performers were great, but props especially to Roman Rabinovich on Piano. Excellent playing!

[@YookeunChang]

ㄴ

[@richardgibbs8469]

23:46 The cello part here is one of the best things ever composed and Oliver is in it 👏🏻

[@subinno8447]

희망과 환희에 찬, 그렇지만 밝기만한 환희가 아니라 땅에 발을 딛고 삶의 한계 속에서도 느끼는 환희를 표현한 곡 같다.

[@nyc88s]

Opening cello solo is some of the most beautiful playing I have ever heard!

[@pascalpoussin1209]

Bravo, three excellent musicians with a special mention for the beautiful sound of the cellist (I play a little cello).

[@uuuggghgh7912]

The 2nd movement… no words

[@keithhulks7049]

The first time I heard trhis work was many years ago at the Wigmore Hall. A group of young musicians very similar in age to these. They played with such brio that it blew my mind.

[@miopaul4781]

Great ensemble - thanks! best recording on YTube

[@terrymcquilkin3009]

What a superb and sensitive execution of this great piece! And the videographers did an outstanding job of capturing the performance.

[@eunicec.chinabackupchannel863]

Absolutely beautiful...so expressive!

[@mikerusli9660]

Simply fabulous! What a nuanced performance.

[@carlosagredaa]

Amazing!

[@ranjitshahani8329]

Absolutely stunning. .One of his masterpieces!

[@squinkque]

Very beautiful, I listened to this as I read a long article on the internet. I'm not sure I listened to this ever before and am so glad I have now. Amazing of how the emotions of the composer from a 150 years ago can be conveyed through these musicians today.

[@misssarahashplant31]

And in another 150 years from now. Music of this calibre is timeless.

[@richparker3257]

Great energy and musicality!

[@garudel]

Absolutely beautiful. Deep understanding of Brahms' esthetics. So grateful you shared !

[@lawrencejuanlin9113]

Simply wonderful! A truly deep and emotional piece from Brahms and absolutely love it!

[@olivierarradon7593]

One of Brahms's chamber music masterpieces. Brilliant performance !

[@GWMarshallinva]

I feel in love with the schrezo as a teenager. It still stirs me forty years later. Wonderful performance and interpretation.

[@DonaldSosinJoannaSeaton]

60 years for me! Heifetz, Feuermann, Rubenstein 78's. kzbin.info/www/bejne/fYKskoycgrBkitk

[@barendtobe6059]

Beautiful greetigs from Utrecht Netherlands

[@phonixausderasche538]

Sehr schön, danke! :-)

[@ismaelsilva6900]

Absolutely amazing performance.

[@martinrimes8650]

What a wonderful performance! Thank you for posting this recording. Simply excellent. Such a fresh and lively interpretation.

[@claudioparrella183]

Grande simbiosi di giovani musicisti che rende meravigliosamente questo capolavoro di Brahms

[@itsSLIMETIMEONETSY]

It sounds heavenly 😍

[@filibertopierami6892]

Bravissimi gli interpreti del capolavoro di Brahms!

[@TawheedTVChannel]

Move to heaven

[@rinacravero]

Muy lindo! Bravo 👏👏👏👏👏

[@florencebruggey963]

eine absolute seelenmusik die ich schon in meiner Kindheit gehört habe, weil meine Mutter sie zuhause gespielt hat . da sind soviele nuancierte Emotionen wie sonst nirgendwo...

[@gumi8187]

i really really like this

[@MrOlogramma]

I love these boys ❤

[@theoldar]

How could people have not understood how revolutionary Brahms really was?

[@Ashok410]

Beautifully played, bravo!

[@Ashok410]

This piece is early rave music. I can imagine it would send the audience wild and cheering

[@cgb01]

Precioso

[@Lexicop2]

Kudos: They repeat the exposition in the first mvt.

[@amelinasneha2171]

Seeing this I want a piano friend and a cello friend 😂 to play the violin along

[@keiratan6801]

I’ll be your pianist friend! Who wants to be the cellist friend?

[@muhammedrahilck3874]

@@keiratan6801 I’ll be the celllist then 🖐🏻

[@bricago2302]

Special thanks to the audience member who waited to cough until the piece began. Bravo!

[@dennispearson9287]

Tremendous Chemistry !!! I Love The Tempo !! The First Movement Sounds Soooo Symphonic !!! If Fully Orchestrated, It would have been a Great Opening Movement For His 5th Symphony maybe ....?

[@twinwankel]

Brahms worked on a 5th symphony but destroyed all sketches before death. What a pity. Also, nearly everything Brahms composed sounds symphonic to me.

[@dennispearson9287]

@@twinwankel Ahhhh........So Typical of Brahms !!! Musicologist Have Estimated That Brahms ( His Own Worst Critic, ) May Have Destroyed As Much As a Third of All of His Compositions !!! We Can Only Imagine The Masterpieces That Didn't Make "The Cut " In Brahms Mind Which Ended Up In Some Trash Basket, That Other Much Lesser Composer's Would Have Died to Have WRITTEN !!! Subsequently However , Because of Brahms Personal Absolute Perfectionist Idiosyncrasies , What Has Survived of His Music is Flawless !!!....And of Course Timeless !!!....

[@usee5669]

8:00

[@eleanorjones26407]

That violinist is totally a soloist

[@frugallentigo6768]

That wouldn't be taken as a compliment by an ensemble player. It would imply domination and showing off.

[@eleanorjones26407]

@@frugallentigo6768 I'm not convinced that that's true. Granted I'm used to more amateur Orchestra players than people who actually go to school for it... but I feel that a lot of people take compliments when they come. Plus Alexi Kenney (the violinist) is actually a soloist now. Regardless of how he might feel about it, he's just about floating out of his chair during the whole performance. This is not to say that Oliver Herbert and Roman Rabinovich aren't playing amazingly but only that I noticed something particular about Kenney. Also, musicians tend to get a bit playfully competitive, but of course that's just my own expierence and not yours.

[@adamsyed5535]

Does anything else besides this and Mendelssohn's Italian symphony start major and end minor?

[@lunaliszt9357]

I'm sure there are some others, but Schubert impromptu op. 90 no. 2 starts in E-flat major and ends in E-flat minor.

[@cellosean]

Don Juan by Richard Strauss.

[@katejohnson9737]

Did they run out of chairs for Alexi?

[@frugallentigo6768]

In a trio he's not going to get much opportunity to relax into the backrest so would opt for the freedom a stool affords a string player.

[@nickfanara8538]

14 02

[@Pitborn]

;-)

[@kerencanelo8580]

14:02

[@djeronimo7981]

la magie brahmsienne atteint son paroxysme dans la musique de chambre , il en jaillit une musique intimiste , comme une féerie mêlée de nostalgie , l accession vers un monde inconnu , un amour nouveau tout plein des délices sensuels que nous concoctait le maestro de hambourg ou il découvrit les méandres de la natures en jouant enfant dans des cabarets fumeux ou s enivraient matelots amers , exorcisant leurs angoisses avec les nombreuses filles de joie dont brahms découvrait la chaleur des circonvolutions charnelles , des femmes de tous horizons que n auraient pas renié lautrec , modigliani , manet , egon schiele , kirchner , domergue et bien d autres ,,

[@user-vd8hy9gy8l]

Hello. I love the video. I'd like to edit and upload it on my personal Instagram. Can I reveal the source and post it?

[@keithsim2914]

cleveland eh

[@renzo6490]

All the coughing. One reason I will not attend live performances. Plus people talking, rustling their programs or candy wrappers. Their strong perfume or tobacco breath or other body smells. Applause immediately as the music stops ! No I'll stay in my lovely home where it is quiet and sweet and listen to a studio recording in a comfortable chair or sofa until the music is finished and slowly melts back into the silence.

[@cellosean]

Don't forget the ubiquitous standing ovation. It's de rigueur in the United States now, you know.

[@renzo6490]

@@cellosean Yes… You know it’s out of control when people stand for Ellen DeGeneres!