Katchen, Suk, Starker, Brahms Piano Trio No.2 in C major Op.87

[@baolnguyen442]

Chamber music making at the highest level... Bravi!!!

[@williamrappaport9203]

This recording is one of the finest examples of music in any genre. The piece is sublime and the performers do it full justice, which almost never happens in any performance of any music.

[@annjeanmillikan]

MOST SUBLIME, favorite performance of this exquisitely divine Brahms Piano Trio. It sends me to HEAVEN with these ethereal sounds and gorgeous playing by this trio.

[@pats2942]

One of the best interpretations ever. Breathtaking, heartbreaking (5th variation in the 2d mvt ......). Thanks so much.

[@josephleal529]

Allegro moderato- 0:00 Andante con moto- 9:34 Scherzo: Presto- 18:31 Finale: Allegro Giocoso- 23:09

[@cristofal1]

Il était une fois un monde merveilleux, un monde disparu ! Revient Brahms !!!!!!

[@gerardbegni2806]

Nothing more has to be said conceernng the perfection of this trio, deliv=cately crafted by Brahms who was ending its "middle" period and about to start his "final" one - the third trio will initiate us to that. The interpretation is awesome, which is not surprising considering the virtuosos at work here.

[@marinacaracciolo3161]

Esecuzione impeccabile da parte di tre artisti di superba fama e maestria. Meraviglioso!

[@elchucabagra]

Such good recording quality, fitting for this quality composition

[@princeandrey]

When people say they don't like Brahms, I don't understand. The Andante has everything a piece should have. As lovely as Opus 8 is, this far exceeds it in depth if not lyricism. Mature Brahms is the best!

[@franzamann1220]

Brahms ist my oben linguage!

[@Rickriquinho]

They are just amateurs with bad taste.

[@Rickriquinho]

Brahms style is fascinating!

[@willetweeks2553]

Thanks for sharing this splendid performance, which had somehow passed me by. While it has all the bite and precision of attack that Brahms requires, it is less driven and goes farther than any other version I know in emphasizing the piece's lyrical side, particularly in the heart-stoppingly lilting approach they take in the Andante. Superlative.

[@princeandrey]

"the heart-stoppingly lilting approach they take in the Andante." A thousand times, yes!

[@sherryjakey1856]

Loved this. So sensitive.

[@marcmitchel25]

This and two other versions: Hess/Szigeti/Casals, Pennario/Heifetz/Piatigorsky. Thank God for all!

[@princeandrey]

Just listened to the Rubenstein. Sorry. This is the best!

[@jbondy6395]

Thanks to Dave Hurwitz for sending me here. Great performance!

[@felixdevilliers1]

I'm impressed rather by the way in which brahms in this work in C majhopr oes as it were for the kill. If ever there was protest music, this is it.

[@princeandrey]

How do you mean this? How is this political? I love this piece , especially the theme and variations in the Andante, and I greatly admire--and have participated in--political activism! I know a bit about Brahms' life, and that he was more or less a political "liberal," (though he admired Bismarck) but, of course, in many ways a musical "conservative." But I'm bewildered as to the "protest" characterization. Protesting against modernity/Wagnerism?

[@felixdevilliers1]

@@princeandrey - Brahms was wrongly comsidered old hat by Wagner and Liszt. He was a modern as they were, as modern as anyone up to Boulez and beyond. It was Boulez who said all grreat composers are modern.. That Brahms idiotically supported Bismarck and his war against the French has noithing to do with his music which is a negation of his empirical self. Quite complicated to explain; I may come back to this. If put on a CD of Chopin's Preludes and think of Trump, Clinton etc their full significance emerges. Try this. He already knew about them. Remember that Emily Bronte said "It is the pen that writes, not I." Tolstoy read a newspaper account of a woman like Anna Karenina commiting suicide and wanted to write a novel condemning women like her but once his novel got under way he identified himself completely with her tragedy. His genius took over. This was obvious protest against the society she was trapped in. The novel went beyond his intentions.All great music tries to get out of the trap. Keats said "Beauty is truth and truth beauty."

[@khool63]

brahms bach schubert haydn beethoven , haydn , l'architecture de la musique , brahms n'est pas facilement accessible , il était perfectionniste à l'excès détruisait certaines oeuvres , en retravaillaient d'autres des décennies durant exemple ein deutsches requiem , mais quelle version ineffable , toute la magie de brahms est dans cette oeuvre mille et mille fois écoutée

[@MashedTubers]

Suayasia, speak English if you want to be understood.

[@ernestofeuerhake]

brahms bach schubert haydn beethoven, haydn, the architecture of music. brahms is not easy to access. he was excessively perfectionnist, he destroyed some of his words, he worked on other works during decades: for example: deutsches requiem. but what an ineffable version! all of brahms' magic is here, in this work that has been listened to thousands and thousands of times

[@najat5779]

Mashid, je l'ai parfaitement compris. (-:

[@MashedTubers]

Najat57 I can't understand a word that you're saying. Don't use a language spoken by a people that considers adultery to be fine and normal.

[@MashedTubers]

Najat57 fine, hide behind French.

[@dmitrishteinbergpianist]

IV: 23:17

[@dmitrishteinbergpianist]

III. 18:27

[@dmitrishteinbergpianist]

II. 9:35

[@zishuowang4513]

9：30 2 moment

[@onceltom]

b compressed everything. shubert would have gone on for hours. b was no pol but clasical music was very political.

[@princeandrey]

I'd love to know what you mean! I am saying this sincerely.

[@squirrel4727]

@@princeandrey me too

[@e21big]

is it just me or Brahms actually a distant relative of Marx? XD

[@princeandrey]

e21big Intriguing. How so?

[@e21big]

Perry Weiner beard

[@princeandrey]

+e21big But Brahms was actually a socially enlightened man. He condemned German anti-Semitism, once saying that it was a form of madness that would come to haunt Germany. It's hard to believe but his death came but forty years before Hitler's rise.

[@gerardbegni2806]

This point is disputed. Brahms was also a convinced nationalist (see triumphlied).

[@princeandrey]

@@gerardbegni2806 You're right. But the point about anti-Semitism is not a controversial one, I don't think.

[@meday1102]

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