Yves Nat plays Brahms Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op.24

[@Madaduxum]

Just beautiful.

[@louismarie92]

Aussi remarquable interprète que pédagogue ! Un toucher impressionnant dans la douceur comme dans la puissance, sans aucune brutalité.

[@epicaunleashed8764]

"without any brutality" 😂😂 get a load of this guy

[@guessouiam7738]

Exquisite ! I've been listening again and again so many times to this version for decades. And have compared it well too. First on lp, then on cd, now online... It just makes me quiet and happy.

[@jlsimonable]

lovely and refined approach

[@francoisdupray3904]

Absolument merveilleux ! Merci !

[@bernardwastiaux1920]

Un grand merci!

[@_PROCLUS]

Very good sound, thank you, Margo Beloved for the wonderful upload, as always..

[@TJFNYC212]

Splendid interpretation... thank you for the upload....

[@christiankircher369]

this absolument grandios. wonderful interpretation. Brahms legato and orchestral and not heavy. But not soft either.

[@remotoadamotroppovelocelaf868]

Interpretazione brillante di assoluta chiarezza.Pochi altri...😮

[@gerardbegni2806]

Brobably one of the best cycle of piano variations of the whole musical story. Yves Nat is well known by his interpretations of Beethoven's sonatas. We can find here a beeethovenian flavor. This is quite different for instance from the interprataion of a grat brahmsian painist, Julius Katchen. I did not know this recording. I am quite pleased to have discoverd it.

[@Fritz_Maisenbacher]

Hey Gérard , and the Diabelli's ... ? These Brahms-Händel variations are only a lovely milkshake in front of the beethovenian monument .....

[@TheMeskies]

and the Diabelli's, an ice cream in front of the Brahms Paganini's....:) :) Music doesn't need any "monument"...Only needs life.

[@Fritz_Maisenbacher]

No.

[@TheMeskies]

Ridiculous "competition"....

[@Fritz_Maisenbacher]

As you want ..... but not for me .

[@philippeyared2050]

He makes the theme and first variation sing like the masterpiece they are. Not many do that. Fleisher, Katchen, Arrau and Anievas come to mind. I don't care as much as I once did for the rest of the work.

[@jean-paulrogues2513]

Certainement la meilleure interprétation de ces variations car il restitue parfaitement, sans mièvrerie, la part schumannienne de Brahms.

[@pianomaly9859]

I have the box set of all of Nat's recordings, and like this one, if there is one phrase that is not intelligently shaped and pointed, I certainly haven't caught it. I've never heard his name bandied about by pianophiles, which is too bad, perhaps because he and several other worthies were overshadowed by Alfred the Great. Aline van Barentzen is another example.

[@joangarcia-alsina2932]

Nat had the courage of recording the complete set of Beethoven Sonatas before his death in 1956. This recordings remain referent, specally after they were remastered in 8 CDs (mono). Nevertheless I prefer Baremboim for the Brahms variations : less transcendent but with fewer errors and absolutely sharp and perfect legato.