Johannes Brahms - 3 Intermezzi, Op. 117

[@lugui0-121]

this piece is the last thing my grandpa requested to listen to before passing away. it’s a beautiful piece, i will be using it in his memorial

[@gracey5512]

Your grandpop is cool

[@YizzERR]

I put this tune on to write poetry to, and soon began to write about life and death and the moments before.. never heard this song until now, and just came and read your comment after I finished writing. All of that to say, your grandpa had good taste, and even better timing. :)

[@martinianotanoni]

In this moment I'm listenig to it with my 2 days born child while he sleeps...

[@sketchmoon3333]

i know it’s a 2 year old comment but my grandpa passed away late october 2021 and i was hoping that he will be ok so i left my home so i can clear my mind and so on.. and i got a phone call that he is giving his last breath.. stood there for 10-15 minutes as he was barely breathing and i felt a bit of movement from his arm and started playing the first intermezzo (this was the only one i started studying).. i only read once or twice the 2nd and 3rd page of the intermezzo but somehow while crying i managed to play it all together like i already knew it.. i just hope he somehow heard it and that rendition of this beautiful intermezzo would’ve been his background song while he was leaving us wherever he is now.

[@papagen00]

@@gracey5512 was

[@alecrechtiene558]

The middle section of that 3rd intermezzo is probably some of the most sublime music that is beyond words. The transition from the brooding main section.

[@JohannesBruhms]

No. 3 is breathtakingly beautiful. This pieces were an opportunity for me, who was not very interested in Brahms, to like his pieces and realize Brahms' greatness. I'd like to play these someday.

[@raulq.o.4121]

The first intermezzo to me is the perfect representation of a happy nostalgia. I imagine someone who is the autumn of his/her life, sat under a tree next to a river, contemplating the water's flow whilst remembers his/her life. I love Brahms' music, it brings a warm joy to my heart.

[@sildurmank]

It's a lullaby, actually.

[@Hajnikovmuz]

Lupu’s tone control is superb! He makes the piano sound like a source of sustained rich and soft sounds, as if it never had hammers.

[@TiticatFollies]

Yes, exactly. THere's a video of Ivan Moravec speaking about "the hammerless technique". He and Lupu have the most beautiful touch.

[@anjawoschick]

...And Arkadi VOLODOS!,......please!...

[@titicat5235]

anja Okay!

[@lefinlay]

He is a sublime pianist, but the quality of the piano helps. A Bosendorfer of Bechstein would have a similar sound - unless he is playing one.

[@zinam5795]

Radu Lupu is very good Musician --studyed with Genrich Newhaus in Moskow....

[@lavzy0193]

The 2nd intermezzo is just so good. I’m not sure why but it just makes me feel as if I’m drowning, just going deeper and deeper. Incredible.

[@balthazarwissman4449]

Wow, the main theme of the second imtermezzo has to have one of the most beautiful melodies I've ever heard

[@TERRYBIGGENDEN]

He ws the very very best interpretor Brahms. Magic.

[@kangchenjunga591]

Best performance on you tube in my opinion. These are so difficult to play well, I’m still struggling even after a year. Bigger hands do help a lot with the first one.

[@MaximTendu]

Yes. Radu Lupu- it doesn't get any better.

[@AtnaKaz]

@@MaximTendu I'd argue that Glenn Gould's recording is on par with this one. Very different, of course, but equally fascinating

[@MaximTendu]

@@AtnaKaz Who would argue with that? Certainly not me. I love Volodos' rendition, as well.

[@pandiatonizm]

Lupu is a really great pianist, attending his concerts is like moving beyond time!

[@KrisKeyes]

These pieces are a massage to the brain. I am definitely going to buy this recording.

[@olla-vogala4090]

+Kris Keyes To the brain & heart I'd say! I highly recommend this recording.

[@xiaoxiaoyuan360]

you're so right!!

[@airassonats]

Descansa en paz Radu Lupu. Y gracias por tanto que nos has dado.

[@1stecha1]

This is beautiful music. Lupu is such a master when interpreting Brahms.

[@MARTIN201199]

1stecha1 Also when playing Schubert’s Impromptus and Mozart’s Sonatas for Piano and Violin (accompanied by Szymon Goldberg)

[@samifaheem1266]

Lupu has potentially the best tone quality I think I’ve ever heard

[@astanakazakhstan3220]

Moravec?

[@Zimzamzoom95]

@@astanakazakhstan3220moravec's tone only sounds softer because of the recording quality ofbhis time

[@marcsmith7789]

Just so heartachingly beautiful. Gorgeous playing of these little masterpieces.

[@5imusic21]

I really love how maestro Radu Lapu plays Brahms…thanks to him Brahms has become one of my favourite composers. RIP maestro

[@АрсенийВолковский-ж2л]

"Колыбельные моей скорби" - я столкнулся с вечным и чувствую сильнейшую меланхолию! Это очень точно

[@bennyksmusicalworld]

RIP, Maestro Radu Lupu. Fly high, my idol.

[@jandrewscali]

Beautiful music. This artist of the piano brings out all the wonderful inner voices of Brahms. Will listen again and again.

[@audreyrossellcadogan3993]

wish this piece would never end

[@myriamreis7940]

9 87 95 25 42

[@野上妙子-v5l]

ブラームスの晩年の傑作ですね。配信ありがとうございます。

[@zhuravlik_mary]

№1 Основная тема 0:07 Середина 2:00 №2 Основная тема 5:49 Середина 7:03 №3 Основная тема 10:46 Середина 12:42

[@mr.cloudinator1347]

What a pity that today’s night, 18/4, we lost such a sensitive, magical pianist. 🙏🏻

[@funklover24]

Heard him live twice, unforgettable. The best Schubert-playing, I ever experienced. May he rest in peace.

[@vespid8960]

And today was when that magical pianist was born

[@kenelliott8944]

18/4 ??? What's that??

[@mr.cloudinator1347]

@@kenelliott8944 The death date of rapu lupu 😢

[@MattWeisherComposer]

@@kenelliott8944You’re probably used to 4/18. They’re talking about April 18th. The pianist here had died the day before.

[@zackwyvern2582]

Excellent recording, with the slight bonus of humming to improve the tone color. :)

[@lupash]

12:40 when Brahms goes A major it's always a moment of great love and bittersweet feelings of longing. See no. 2 op 118 too.

[@mostsickestvideos4483]

honestly 12:40 is such an underrated brahms moment. I think it is as beautiful as anything he wrote. so bittersweet. you are very right about a major too

[@Eric-jo8uh]

LOVE Brahms!

[@ianfrancis777]

Lovely, I remember learning the first two of these in high school. I love the interpretation here.

[@carryfreak5059]

Yes. I learned all three in high school. None of them are easy. I remember almost crying with frustration trying to learn No. 2. It NEVER sounded like this. Now, 35 years later, maybe I should try again.

[@gabrielmeruelo3158]

Very fine interpretation. I also like Glenn Gould's version. Gabe Meruelo.

[@pianoluciddreams1191]

RIP Radu Lupu 💔

[@randykern1842]

Number 1 has one of the best Brahms melodies ever created

[@squirrel4727]

No.3 as well

[@MARTIN201199]

Brahms complete piano output is probably the most beautiful music ever composed

[@roberacevedo8232]

@@MARTIN201199 Cough Cough Chopin, Liszt, Schubert, Rachmaninoff, Mozart, TCHAIKOVSKY, Mendelssohn, Grieg, Sibelius, Schuman, Beethoven, Ravel, Debussy, Puccini cough cough cough... I think it's a little hard to pin point the guy that made the most beautiful melodies.

[@watutman]

@@roberacevedo8232 And Dvorak, Scriabin and Shostakovich, and...

[@watutman]

But for sure, I'm a Brahms fan.

[@JohannesC-c9k]

Brilliant Brahms.

[@TimondeNood]

Thank you so much to everyone involved :)

[@kathyshogue2149]

Ads breaking into the middle of a beautiful piece of music are just very jarring and mean!

[@titicatfollies6615]

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[@christophbreitenbach4112]

Advertising is an epidemic created by mankind itself. The gain, the profit kills culture. One day ads will be allowed even in services.

[@MrGer2295]

Beautiful ! Thank you for posting :)

[@jingqiao661]

The problem with me is that I can't get the inner melody to sound right :(

[@ericsutz8026]

Finger independence exercises would be very helpful!

[@jameslorenz3718]

You should follow the advice of the person above. Also remeber to give it time. You have gotten this far and yoh will keep getting better.

[@rushana1956]

Brahms plays Brahms. Neat!

[@faberbosc6639]

Quand c'est beau, c'est Brahms.....

[@germanbikbaev3406]

В первом Интермеццо волшебные гармонии

[@punkpoetry]

IMHO: there's no doubt that he can play the piano extremely well, yet he plays everything as though it's Schumann's Traumerei - with boundless gentleness and lyricism - and it can get a bit samey. In these late Brahms pieces there's room for a certain abstraction and austerity, which he never goes for, which is why I prefer Anatoly Vedernikov's recording

[@davidmoran5431]

nicely put and true; suggest everyone also check kovacevich

[@dlee3710]

There's always some asshole for whom perfection isn't enough.

[@raymundovergararoman2473]

I love the second work, it seems as if he would be telling his daily life amidst love, passion solety and routine of work at the piano

[@Ivan_1791]

I love the second piece so much...

[@stueystuey1962]

I grew up on Brahms but confess that my knowledge of his entire oeuvre is lacking. I do not have an intimate knowledge of his solo piano works. I listen mostly to serial compositions now and very very little pre WWII works except for 2nd Vienesse school. It is refreshing to listen to late Brahms and enjoy how he really started to push the bounds of chromatic modulation at a time where the notion of atonality let alone 12 tone composition was 30 or more years in the future.

[@user-fu7zf4ck9z]

If you think this is pushing boundaries, you need to check out liszts late works

[@okb0ss336]

i'd argue composers like wagner and mahler to name a few were already starting to push tonality to its limits more so than brahms. but agreed, it's very interesting to view brahms' late music in the context of what was to come

[@captainmarvelous982]

I'd rather hear tonality pushed to its limits instead of tonality falling apart completely, chromaticism used effectively is better than pretending to be a genius

[@raymondgood2359]

love the bridge in #3 between sections 2 and 3

[@Dichweed]

Good interpretation.

[@valseistheworld]

I can’t understand and feel this music not yet.. even I’m deeply loved in classic music.

[@Chris-xs3vu]

It’s just so difficult to play the chords without it overpowering the melody, I’m struggling to get that melody to sing without all the octaves taking over

[@galek75]

Could you do the op. 76 piano pieces? I would greatly appreciate that!

[@pianogus]

Sublime.

[@WeepingWillow6497]

The A theme of the first piece has this really similar sound to the hymn from "Jupiter" in my ears. Does anyone else hear the similarities?

[@edwardloh6679]

I think it sounds a bit like the Christmas Carol "The First Noel".

[@ernesthoven]

Lupu ❤️

[@lucasdelliosiv7493]

The harmony in the 2nd intermezzo reminds me alot of Liszt's Chasse Neige

[@joshuaslater7858]

I agree. Played Chasse-neige… however, i’m not going anywhere near these intermezzi for a few years till i’m out of my teens… so difficult to master!

[@davidkaegi2598]

Here because of Imgur, did not disappoint.

[@Konguy101]

+David Kaegi Was probably repost

[@川口健太郎-l1b]

ブラームスの曲で数少ない好きな曲

[@dm_99]

Brahms plays Brahms

[@terryss95]

Thanks man.

[@JkyLi]

Am I drunk? Why it sounds so similar to gould's? Especially op117 no3.

[@andykarpmusic]

Why did Brahms write #2 in 3/8 rather than three more familiar 3/4?

[@Florestan_]

Maybe He don't want to use waltzic form

[@SantiagoQuinto]

Un levísimo error en la mano derecha en el 4:50. Bellísima interpretación, pero prefiero a Glenn Gould.

[@MARTIN201199]

Al parecer en vez de La bemol tocó ¿Sol? A mi me gustan tanto la versión de Gould que es más íntima, así como la de Kempff que es más Beethoveniana. Pero esta versión se me hace muy agradable al oído y fácil de digerir. Que piensas de la versión de Volodos? A mi gusto una de las mejores

[@khool63]

this music is like a dream , poetic , erotic , amazing , difficult to play , magic , i love so much brahms , his music make me remember a lot of love with so nices women ,

[@purplebone5597]

erotic? :/ omg

[@danielche2349]

@@purplebone5597 lmao bruh

[@alineboyd983]

Superb!

[@johannesbrahms4930]

No need to compliment.

[@calebhu6383]

0:06, 5:49, 13:01

[@川口健太郎-m5e]

† Lupu

[@anelamujkovic1633]

00:00 Es dur 05:47 b mol 10:44 cis mol

[@stupid_and_happy]

середина третьего интермеццо 12:40

[@piano25250]

5:47

[@illiliiilllliii_iillil]

5:48 6:20 7:02 7:32 9:38 10:41

[@川口健太郎-l1b]

子守唄 テンポを速めにして、勇ましく演奏すると軍隊行進曲 眠りを誘う

[@noemiserra3366]

Brahms és Sublim

[@005422iyy]

12:38

[@tozo073]

У години снимања имао сам минус двије године.

[@ziegunerweiser]

Have you heard the Sokolov yt video? There's alot of noise and Walkman style bootleg but you should hear it if you haven't already. I find my self wanting to hear Pollini play this, and wishing for Sokolov to record a box set of all Brahms piano music.

[@ziegunerweiser]

I miss the hell out of hearing new things from you. Have you considered uploading at the new channel?

[@mostsickestvideos4483]

Volodos' Brahms is even better

[@olla-vogala4090]

Sorry for not writing for so long. I will upload some new things but I have been really busy. I hope you are well +scottbos68!

[@ziegunerweiser]

Good to hear from you my friend looking forward to it

[@Lillars]

Stupéfiant !

[@川口健太郎-l1b]

ララバイ

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[@EllyCatfox]

🖤🤍🖤🤍🖤🤍🖤🤍

[@jhwarby2012]

16:23 wtf?!

[@olla-vogala4090]

Just Mr. Lupu humming along with the music :)

[@raffaelesantarpino8180]

So difficoult...

[@lefinlay]

They actually aren’t too bad. Around Grade 8 level? Give or take...

[@papagen00]

I don't like Brahms but the 1st intermezzo is nice.

[@AkiraRabelaisXO]

I fucking hate Grammarly!!

[@mw11stuff]

Fucking humming

[@chrisgordon6599]

What an unthinkably boorish, uncultured, ignorant, stupid and grossly crass travesty of one of the most beautiful, poignant and heartfelt utterances from a composer's soul, and not just any composer's soul, but the purest soul of any composer, the soul of Johannes Brahms, which has been completely spoilt by the greedy , grasping hands of the minions of Mammon which proves that these minions of Mammon have no soul.

[@derwanderer4769]

Are you deaf? I bet you are a fan of Lang Lang/Matsuev... shame on you.

[@lefinlay]

1) What makes this rendition an uncultured travesty, and 2) what makes Brahms’ soul the purest of the composers?

[@niccolopaganini4268]

The pianist looks like Brahms xD

[@Caravaggio44]

Yea, I was like WOW a color photo of Brahms playing?? Never saw that before!

[@TERRYBIGGENDEN]

Indeed! Iwondr…

[@wesaneonato5783]

No

[@vine2197]

XD

[@dm_99]

😣

[@gerardbegni2806]

The first one is a real danger for beginners: it may seem quite simple and easy, both when reading rhe score and listening to the muusic. But it requires a full control of rhe pianqric expression which only a confirmed payer can have. These three pieces can appear less complex and difficult than other ones of the same period, but they probably best reveai the intimacy of the composer.

[@brandonmacey964]

Gérard Begni great insight! Brahms is so incredible

[@Pakkens_Backyard]

It's like with the popular "easy" Chopin preludes - sure they might be relatively easy, but to play them WELL is a whole different issue.

[@s1nd3rr0z3]

@@Pakkens_Backyard Both chopin and brahms in my opinion are extremely easy to misinterpret.

[@Pakkens_Backyard]

@@s1nd3rr0z3 All Classical music, actually. I mean, think of all the misunderstandings in the world, but these pieces are already 100+ years old and their composers are no longer around.

[@s1nd3rr0z3]

@@Pakkens_Backyard Yeah, but I think just because how much their personalities and personal lives affected their music more so than a lot of composers, this makes it very difficult to get an accurate recreation. Also specifically with Chopin, his style of playing had a gigantic amount of influence on his style of composition and was very idiosyncratic.

[@davidrehak3539]

Johannes Brahms:3 Intermezzo Op.117 1.Esz-dúr (Andante moderato - Piú adagio - Un poco piú andante) 00:05 2.b-moll (Andante non troppo e con molto espressione - Piú adagio) 05:47 3.cisz-moll (Andante con moto - Poco piú lento - Piú moto ed epressivo - Tempo I - Piú lento) 10:44 Radu Lupu-zongora

[@danielzaytsev820]

0:01, wow, didn't know there was couloured fotage of Brahms whilst performing.

[@MrPatropolis55]

The colour photo is Radu Lupu, who is playing in this recording

[@maryyueil]

Beautiful renditions of Brahm's op.117 3 Intermezzi. # 2 is my favorite.

[@Ivan_1791]

Same.

[@jean-marcpinet2758]

Une merveilleuse interprétation pour une merveilleuse musique. Merci!!!

[@Loreless]

И станут кружком на лужке интермеццо, Руками, как дерево, песнь охватив, Как тени, вертеться четыре семейства Под чистый, как детство, немецкий мотив.

[@Poeme340]

What a gorgeous interpretation! The clarity and dynamics are exquisite.

[@Dunkez]

i love the 2nd one

[@irenenaselli2429]

Brahms por Radu Lupu, una versión embriagante., mágica.

[@ethanpoon6174]

It reminded of an unknown classical pianist who died of heart failure back in March 1991 at the age of 62.

[@isaacvandermerwe744]

Who?

[@h.astley2113]

these three are so weird and dark and ahead of their time they are like a genre of their own

[@TomTom53421]

Rest In Peace, Radu Lupu.

[@mariadaconceicaocostaperro7762]

Fantástico! Controle absoluto da sonoridade.

[@pablim9732]

5:10pain

[@mariadaconceicaocostaperro7762]

Lupu tem o controle perfeito entre a som e o sentimento. É o dom divino da pura emoção sonora.

[@조규상-e9x]

1:58 3:43 5:47 10:45 12:41

[@e.hutchence-composer8203]

I aspire to play Brahms like this! No. 1 is an absolute gem