Johannes Brahms: String Quintet No. 2 in G Major, Op. 111
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- čas přidán 3. 05. 2013
- Recorded at www.springlightmusic.com
Vilde Frang I violin, Elina Vähälä II violin, Vladimir Bukac I viola, Yuval Gotlibovich II viola, Jian Wang cello
A visit to Italy has had a stimulating effect on many a composer. Johannes Brahms (1833-- 1897) was no exception when, on returning home in 1890, he set to work on his second String Quintet, Op. 111. In the finale, particularly, he let himself be carried away in cheerful Hungarian mood.
His contemporaries failed to recognise the Mediterranean open-mindedness and extroversion of the melodic work, and one of Brahms's champions, Eduard Hanslick, even detected signs of introspection. "Brahms appears increasingly to withdraw into himself, seems more at ease, with ever-greater assurance in the vigorous expression of simple feelings. This work is endowed with intense emotional life, without effort, without excess, without artifice!" - Hudba
Dear camera men, it is a quintet, not a quartet. The Chinese guy in the middle is the cellist. Not only he is part of the band, his solo actually started the piece.
Wonder why Wang tiptoes like that when he plays
This has better camera angles/focus. czcams.com/video/EBsAtqFVjag/video.html
The opening cello line is the writing of a genius!!!!
If you want to know what heaven sounds like, listen to the first movement! Incredible!
My thoughts exactly!
It is quite interesting how much the fullness of the texture is enhanced with the additional viola part. Brahms was definitely very fond of full sonorities and intricate inner parts and here he gave himself a wonderful vehicle.
I proclaim the opening of this piece the all time goosebumps triggering champ.
In the mid 1980's while attempting to get an MA in Music Composition, I took a class that was nothing but Brahms Chamber music and I was assigned "the two String Quintets." The first time I heard this work I nearly fell over----"This is LATE Brahms?" And recently I heard an all female Quintet perform this work along with a Mozart String Quintet live! at a small church venue. While not up to the formidable quality of this performance, it was still a very good live performance.
I love the Church in the Rock, in Helsinki. When I visited it, I dreamed of hearing a chamber ensemble play here.
I heard a student concert there. It was beyond fantastic! The acoustics were wonderful. Each student played like a pro. In addition, there was a Hamburg Steinway D that may have been the most beautiful piano I’ve ever heard.
So far the best possible live performance of this sophisticated masterwork with perfectly controlled mild sound of all the strings.
Have a look at the live recording with the Alban Berg Quartett.
Don't hear nothing mild in this, very electric
Wow. I agree...this is an exquisitely beautiful performance to me.
I. Allegro non troppo, ma con brio- [00:07]
II. Adagio- [12:23]
III. Un poco Allegreto- [18:12]
IV. Vivace ma non troppo presto- [23:31]
tal barak Thanks
tal barak
Obrigado
Everything is so beautiful and gorgeous!!! The people, the venue as well as the music!!!!
Fantastic performance, this and the Nash Ensemble recording are the best performances I've heard. Vilda Frang is very young here but today she is one of the world's top soloists. Her performance is elegant, effortless, with a tremendous tonal range. But the rest of the ensemble is of the same extremely high caliber.
The viola parts are so central to 111 and Bukac and Gotlibovich are so wonderful, super precise and really sensitive.
It's so easy for this piece to degenerate into a contest of who can play the loudest, and there is just wonderful dynamic control here.
It's always a pleasure to listen to this superb quintet with its energizing beginning.
Obviously this international group understands the deep emotions of the great work.
That is simply gorgeous
here he exceeds, supersedes himself, with an unconstrained freedom of expression and whim, which he delights in, and then reflects on, beautifully evoked by a superb quintet
Don't forget that he was around 57 when he composed this work!! And my first hearing I was blown away totally for days!!!!!!
Full of energy and at the same time wistful reflection. Beautifully played. What a marvelous way to begin the day. Bravo! Bravo!
So refreshing to see Frang as the first violin with such beautiful melody, the second violin was great too.
この曲はブラームスの室内楽曲中でも屈指の名曲と思います。老境を迎えつつあった彼の円熟した作曲技術と情熱と抒情が一体となった完成度を感じます。こんな素晴らしい演奏で味わうことができて幸せいっぱいです。
Outstanding performance of an under-appreciated and very difficult work.
Starting at 8:15 one of my favorite moments of any chamber music piece, when the 1st violin takes up the opening melody that was played by the cello. It's such a beautiful transformation. This is a really great performance.
so beautiful brahms- great performance
This unusual combination of instruments produces a mind-shattering effect, what Brahms was aiming for, I can only assume. The musicianship of the young string players was of the highest order. I wish I had been there, wherever the there was.
Bennett Markel Rock Church in Helsinki, Finland.
+violinhunter2 It seems magnificent there
Nothing shatters minds like adding more violas
@@violinhunter2 I’ve been there. The acoustics are fantastic.
un giorno la grande musica ritornerà importante e sarà anche merito vostro. interpretazione ineguagliabile!
wonderful playing!!
wonderful music and great musicians!!
I love this sosososososososo much. Brahms always seems to sound so orchestral to me, especially in the first movement of this masterpiece.
It was originally conceived as the first movement of a symphony, alas, abandoned by Brahms. There is reconstruction of the symphony by Peter Klatzow available on CZcams. The reconstructed first movement of this "Symphony # 5" does sound like echt Brahms..
+alfred kornfeld Thank you!
Fascinating. Is there a recording?
I love the Schoenberg Version of the Piano quartet
A superb group and Vilde plays it perfectly. She is always a joy. By far the best recording of this masterpiece.
Wish they would play together more often!!!!
Great group!!!
My favorite piece on this earth! And how much more joyous does it get, introspection of the inner movements notwithstanding. Wonderful performance, also!
NIce to hear, Greg!
The opening of the 2nd mivement is magic
just listened to this for probably the 100th time......never gets old...created a huge earworm in my head
i love the pluck at 26:44 it's perfect
beautiful playing tutti...especially vilde frang!!
Speechless!! Congratulations.
this performance is the best.
Amazing musicians and superb ensemble. However, the camera folks had no idea where to point the camera to. They need a director who knows how to read music and has a score on hand.
Exactly; a very common problem. The camera folks seem to think "half an hour dull music, what can we to about that". I wonder what they would do with a sports event - taking no notice of the ball.
Yeah! Imagine a soccer game when they point cameras at the sideline!
Just trivia here but they're playing from at least 3 different editions. A couple of them have the Peters, Frang is playing from a printout of the original Simrock edition, and the 1st violist is playing from the International (which has better clef choices for viola than the Peters and some good fingerings.)
Paráda, moc pěkný koncert!
Meraviliosa opera e appassionata interpretazione... Bravi, complimenti!
Ich liebe Vilde Frang. Sie ist wunderbar.
I've played the second and third movement, I look forward to play the rest one day.
I've just discovered this piece: it seems less popular than his sextets. The video has very good visuals of the players. I'm no expert on performance, but it sounds very good to me.
Magnifici!
The musicians, from Norway, Finland, Czech Republic, Israel, China. The music, a Hungarian dance composed by a German and first performed in Austria.
Great work and performance
such great faces, my favourite is the 1st violin, you can tell they get so much joy from it.
Que bien interpretado!!!!! emociona profundamente cuando los instrumentistas cantan de esta manera!! BRAVO!!
Overwhelming passion - amazing for a later work
OH wow SUPERB performance!!! really captures the rytmic nuances and dance qualities. BRAVO
Some of the last works of Brahms... incredible.
Gorgeous
fantastic
!!!!
magnificent
Bravo!!!
Maravilhoso!
Marvelous!
Such a beautiful chamber music venue
Vilde frang 😍
What I find very sad about this is that Brahms is most unlikely ever to have heard it played this well. Wonderful!
+Lyndon Hills Well it was written for Joseph Joachim, one of the great violinists of the 19th century. Originally performed by the Joachim quartet, so probably it was a pretty good performance.
Biographer Jan Swafford said Brahms supervised the first rehearsals and performance and was pleased with it, although he refused to answer any questions about all instruments being marked forte at the beginning. The quartet complained the cello "has to scrape away mercilessly to be heard," but Brahms let it stand, suggesting this was the sonority he intended. He wanted the cello to sound like it was scraping away mercilessly.
A friend attending the rehearsal said enthusiastically while listening at the beginning that it sounded like "Brahms in the Prater!!" (Vienna's city park.) Brahms replied with a mischievous grin, "You've got it! And all the pretty girls there, too, no?"
Thank you M. White. This passage is famous among cellists for its difficulty and its beauty. I don't think Brahms was aiming for anything remotely "scraping" -- I think what he may have wanted was something like a growl of a very big dog. It has to be played near the bridge with tremendous pressure, and ideally on an instrument that has a relatively bright structured lower register. On a dark-toned cello it will be completely lost and that is a pity because it is a wonderful line.
Regarding the fortes, with Brahms string quintets and sextets the performers simply cannot take Brahms' dynamics literally but consider the musical context as well as the acoustics of where they're playing. Yo Yo Ma has explained this - most of the time the parts need to played at least a half-dynamic less and sometimes a full mark less.
The viola parts are incredibly wonderful for the quintets and the sextets -- every bit as fun as the violin parts. But the two violas have to play with sensitivity and restraint because they, especially with cello or cellos, completely overpower the violins. The first violin can cut through it when it's high on the E string but the second can be completely lost -- and that's a shame because every voice is important.
Well that clears up the cello question I think. Brahms simply couldn't give
up what he heard in his head, and left room for players to puzzle it out. I
am reminded that the love song waltzes score says "vocalists ad lib,"
suggesting there's more than one way to do it, and he gives a slight edge
to passion over perfection. Craft in construction, spirit in performance.
Totally subjective, but don't you think the second theme in the 1st
movement is almost deliberately over-sentimental? Like he's winking at you,
or something. "Remember the sweet times," is what he seems to be saying to
my ears.
Yes, there is no objective measure of what piano or forte is supposed to sound like. So musicians have to decide for themselves, and everybody makes different decisions. There is no right or wrong but there are some things that are more defensible than others based on what we know about the composer and the period. I don't think Brahms would argue at all with adjustments necessary to balance the sound and bring out the voices with clarity.
Same with tempo markings. "Allegro" can mean a lot of different things to different people. Even in the unusual case where composers actually specified tempo markings in beats per minute, they are often disregarded by convention. For example, almost no one in the last century has performed Beethoven's Hammerklavier sonata at the fast tempos Beethoven specified because it is so incredibly difficult. A brilliant young pianist, Yuja Wang, has started performing it at Beethoven's tempos recently and the critics say it almost makes the Hammerklavier into a new piece.
sounds fantastic!
Op. 111, particularly Allegro non troppo, ma con Brio is the most amazing piece of music ever composed.
Lovely performance!
Oh ... what is there left for words!
A very good performance!
So nice to hear! Well played A+
Bravo! It's not only a beautiful performance, but it's well filmed. So many of these chamber performances are not well filmed. And I carp about it over and over, but this one is very imaginative. All the players are well represented. Okay, the cello is cheated a little. Still, this is better than most.
I agree, a beautiful performance. But can you deny that a moving camera-view is a distraction from the music? "Imaginative" proves it.
Guys must be happy 'cause the 1st and 2nd players are the most talented and beautiful ladies in the violinist world!
Strongly seconded! (after Corina Belcea of course)
The second movement is vintage Brahms.
Thanks!
“Brahms in the Prater!”
Qué bonito segundo movimiento =)
The interpretation is a delight! But the camera crew manages to find shooting angles that have little connection to the music. A fixed camera would have been far better.
This piece wants plenty of bowing, and cello sets the pace from the very beginning. Great sound throughout, and Ms Frang's bow is ten centimeters longer than normal. Yes, I think so. And wonderful coordination, took some rehearsing, methinks. Is this the most difficult of all Brahms's chamber pieces? I think so. Congrats to all.
1:57, 2nd violin (letter B on the score)
I want this as my theme music when I enter the room.
toll!
Great
Another guy? Yesssss, let me too say: great GREAT performance... discovering another star, what an interpretation! Who needs the E. Q. the A Q, Q E, M Q... I love quartetto Italiano!
Hillary C a. pacino and N.anahu at 2 violin and violas... wouldn"t be cool.. trum would play a 10 meter bass drum
with tooth picks
Vilde Frang, the first violinist, is quite the virtuoso I feel. There is a biographical video clip with interview of her on youtube. Quite gifted.
kss MD PhD well she is. she's an up and coming soloist in Europe.
This was a kind of swan song for Brahms until the clarinet playing of Richard muhlfeld brought him out of retirement. Its a big piece and famously needs a mighty cellist in the first movement. But this team are wonderful and really on song.
So there's no String Quintet No.1 Op.111, right?...oh...such a fine performance...and so wonderfully played...THANK YOU!!!...
There is "First" String Quintet Opus 88 in F major he composed in 1882. But this work is FAR superior!!
In primo piano
tal barak
4 anni fa
I. Allegro non troppo, ma con brio- [00:07]
II. Adagio- [12:23]
III. Un poco Allegreto- [18:12]
IV. Vivace ma non troppo presto- [23:31]
An excellent performance, and good sense of ensemble. I do wish they brooded through the third movement more. I worry they miss some of its sombreness and sonority.
Sprachlos und überwältigt.
A rival to 'Souvenir de Florence' by Tchaikovsky. Both composed at roughly the same time for string ensemble and inspired by sojourns to Italy.
Kory Bant - and, interestingly enough they despised each other
No, they didn't. Before he met Brahms, Tchaikovsky wrote scathing things about him -- insisting that Brahms was "giftless" and assuming that he was a snob. They met at a dinner in 1887 and Tchaikovsky found he quite liked Brahms the man. He never warmed up to Brahms's music; nor, for that matter, did Brahms like anything Tchaikovsky wrote.
better to say they despised each other's music.
Brahms touches God at 6:56
God sounds pretty weird...
I prefer 10:25 - 11:22
No, not there; but perhaps throughout the 2d movement.
I concur. I'd like to play it at a quarter of the tempo so I can live in it for a little while
An intensely beautiful moment....bless you for pointing it out! I'm glad I've lived long enough to enjoy this.
Music of the highest quality.Chromecast and CZcams allow me see and hear it in stunning pictures and sound.What a venue ...but why the empty seats?
The empty seats are because we prefer to enjoy our music through CZcams nowadays:-)
PaulVinonaama Sadly, that's very true.
+Lyndon Hills On the other hand, it would have been difficult to cramp 86 460 people in that church.
how can you sit still, in silence, after such a first movement?
I know right, a burst of joy! I always feel like I would like to stand up and dance to the part at 6:40.
😍😍😍😍😍😍😢😢😢
Does anyone know this venue??
Who is the violinist on the far left? She is pretty! Everybody played fantastically, and I know looks don't matter but... I still wonder who she is.
Vilde Frang
She is very beautiful (as is the second violinist), but her playing is even more stunning. Listen to the attack she brings to the music, for example at 7:41, after the little tranquillo episode. The clarity and balance of all the players throughout the performance is simply amazing (despite the fact that the camera is usually focused on the wrong player!).
Her playing on other recordings sounds very fresh and passionate without trying to be too "romantic." Her Mozart concertos album makes Mozart sound like a modernist. Her playing is just downright interesting. I'd love to hear her play some 20th century concertos.
She is Vilde Frang - see "Janine Jansen & Friends: Tsjaikovski - Souvenir de Florence" :)
DOES VILDE MEAN WILD? INTERESTING. BRAHMS EXPLORED VIBRATING EFFECTS AND COMPLICATED RHYTHMS LONG BEFORE HIS LATE REJUVENATION. ALONG WITH TCHAIKOVSKY SOUVENIR HE WROTE THE SEXYEST CHAMBER MUSIC.
my did brahms have a nice time at about 7:49 reintroducing the initial theme
good playing..
12:25 adagio
[06:03] what is that bbritten? JB was dead
00:07
12:23
Gorgeous version of this, but who is that snorting cocaine through the entire performance??
Brahms was a much more modern composer then Wagner. Wagner came at the end of something, Brahms at the beginning of something else ....
every album on itunes for this piece is like half the speed and I hate it...
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