Noah Bendix-Balgley plays Brahms Symphony No. 4 excerpt

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2 жыл бұрын

With Brahms looking over my shoulder! The great Johannes passed away today 125 years ago. I've always loved the romantic power, emotion and beauty of his music.
Here is a well-known excerpt from the last movement of his 4th Symphony, an excerpt that appears often on orchestral violin audition lists.
A side-note: in 1895, my great-grandfather Samuel Leventhal (a violinist and later concertmaster of the Hartford Symphony) saw Brahms conducting this symphony in Leipzig with the Gewandhaus Orchestra. Samuel was 15 at the time. He recalled later of Brahms: "He was a stuffy little figure with gray hair, wearing an ill-fitting, baggy suit. He got a tremendous reception...I was only a boy. It's only in retrospect that I appreciate the great privilege it was to hear Brahms conduct."

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@davidmalaev5743 2 жыл бұрын

Please more excerpt! 🙏

@kathychenyinggao4519 2 жыл бұрын

This is so beautiful! I thought at one point the Brahms in the painting will start smiling.

@toth-music 4 ай бұрын

playing a composers music with all our emotions and devotion establishes a very deep and close relationship with this composer... in your recording it makes it visual...

@ub3rcube 2 жыл бұрын

How does this have so few views??? Even from the "violinists watching other violinists so they can git gud" demographic, this deserves more.

@ZenpaiV Жыл бұрын

I mean, the demographic is basically just people who are studying and performing the excerpt, if you weren’t studying the excerpt you’d probably just listen to the symphony instead.

@dalgonamaster56 Жыл бұрын

Best brahms excerpt I’ve ever heard

@goldfish2503 Жыл бұрын

You have an audition coming up?

@dalgonamaster56 Жыл бұрын

@@goldfish2503 life is an audition 🥸

@fateindustry 6 ай бұрын

I played this in a live mock audition just several days ago. But I disagree. He's not counting. He's rushing as if he's trying to get thru it and not properly subdividing the high notes at the end.

@jacc88888 Жыл бұрын

Wow! That sound!!😮 Absolutely glorious.

@Gmar69 2 жыл бұрын

I watched your interview, and I thought you were too modest. Your work is brilliant! I've always wished I could master the violin as you have. When I heard you performing Amy Beach's Romance, I was blown away. It's one of my favorites now, thank you so much. I'll keep up with your work, amazing!!