I will never forget playing the Brahms E minor for Jacqueline back in 1967. She insisted I play it on her beautiful Davidov Stradivarius cello. I was pretty thrilled. At first I did not feel worthy and said "Oh...that's ok." and smiled. She said, "Christine, you do not say no to the chance to play on the Davidov!" And so I smiled and took the cello and played it for her. She was 22 and I was 17. She was newly engaged to Daniel Barenboim and had his photos with her plastered all over the hotel mirror. We talked and talked and she ordered up some hot chocolate and biscuits for us. It was an afternoon I will never forget. We also wrote to one another after that. It is always a great joy rereading her letters! I am 68 now....so many years ago and yet it sometimes seems like it was yesterday. Some day I must see that they get into the right hands for all to appreciate.
What a beautiful story for us other dregs of humanity to inspire us to keep on plodding on in our meaaningless accountancy of empires lost; Madame Newland et Madame Barenboim, nee du Pre, you contributions will make our unmarked deaths so much less painful - like Hans Canstorp's [Magic Mountain - Der Zauberberg - Thomas Mann] when Castorp was hurling himself to certain destruction of himself and ancient Europe while singing to himself the soothing tunes of der Lindenbaum by Schubert . . . What is life worth without beauty . . .
Christine, thank you so much for telling us bout such a wonderful memory. I think I went to a concert at the Royal Festival Hall where Jacqueline was playing the Elgar, although I'm not certain. I have a real passion for classical music. I play the piano (just improvise - not professionally!). You and I are of the same generation.
As a cellist, i am jealous that the violin have got more beautiful pieces than the cello. And in orchestra, the violin got almost all the melodies while cellist are just playing the baseline. And most of the non-musicians only know what is the violin while think that the cello is a big violin. :(
This is my favourite performance os this piece, this sonata is just perfect. I wish I could have listened Du Pre when she was still alive. It's a shame, but at least her music keeps her alive. For me, the best cellist of the XXth century. I admire her so much... An example.
For me, she is and always will be the best! She bared her soul and became the music when she performed. I saw her a few times and I went on stage with her to turn pages for her husband Daniel. She was a powerhouse of emotion and creative energy! She let me play on her cello when we met for the first time in 1967.
Agree fully ! I know nothing about music, but listened to her while resting from studying for exams, I was in my late 50's studying Chinese medicine. I had been a fan of Piatigorsky, but after I heard her, that was it. Once in a century such greatness comes.
I literally weep when I am hearing this glorious Brahms Cello Sonata. I weep even more when I think of Jacqueline du Pre putting up this majestic performance. Her playing can make anyone cry, such is her passion! I am 68 and to know that sometimes life is so cruel as to snatch this diamond from us the music lovers is unforgivable! I miss you greatly Jacqueline and your wonderful smile will forever be embedded in my heart and mind!
This is exquisite! Jacqueline du Pre was the most gifted cellist ever. No other artist interprets the Brahms Cello Sonata in E minor like she did. I am glad that I got to attend one of her concerts at Carnegie Hall.
+Ikoikjji I attended one of Jacqueline du Pre's concerts at Carnegie Hall in New York City in 1968 when I was a 12 year old cello student. I went backstage to meet her on a long receiving line with my mother, a concert pianist, and Jacqueline du Pre wished me good luck with my music studies. She was beautiful with her long blonde hair wearing a modern, simple silk gown. Jacqueline du Pre was so inspiring and I remember practicing much harder after that concert. My parents, both musicians, took me to see all the greats in concert. It was easy because we lived in NYC. It was a great concert!.
+Ikoikjji I have never played the cello professionally but I have always enjoyed playing it at home. When I was teaching school for many years I gave many cello demonstrations and small recitals in class. I still play cello for fun!
+Vivienne Courtney Wow!!!What a nice memory!!! I am astonished to listen Jacqueline du Pre playing Bach when she is young. If she had lived longer, she should have been sublime in performance as much as Pierre Fournier.
Wenn Sie Brahms gerne mögen,gefällt Ihnen vielleicht auch das Folgende hier. Sonate für Cello und Klavier F-Dur. th-cam.com/video/IbdR3Ea5CIU/w-d-xo.html
I bow to you, Johannes Brahms, for such autumnal beauty! I bow to you, Jacqueline du Pre and Daniel Barenboim, for such masterly playing! This is a precious precious recording!
This is a marvellously assured and emotionally infused rendition of a much loved repertoire piece - thumbs all the way from the start to the end - there is no doubt about it - the spirits of sublime artists and maestros such as Du Pre live on in their works - how wonderful and fitting!
Yes, but so does the entire first movement. I doubt anyone has played it so well. Perhaps Mischa. You must also like the second movement of the Double Concerto.
Rostropovich and Du Pre are my all time favorite cellists that I look to constantly for inspiration and insight. This is one rare instance where I can't decide which bits of whose interpretation to base mine off of. They both play Brahms so beautifully (I'm not sure why everyone seems to dislike Rostropovich playing Brahms and worship Jacqueline, not that hers isn't gorgeous). I just fucking love this aaaa
Both of them are hilarious. Yet I had the pleasure of listening to Martha Argerich and Mischa Maisky. He so lives the moment. You can literally see him feel the music. So I‘d add him to the all time favorite cellists.
Wonderful depth of lyricism. She was one in a billion, or even more. I played this once with Rostropovitch. Really. Her reading far outshone his. He also did a Rachmaninoff with Horowitz in Carnegie Hall. Again, he could not compete at all with Horowitz' lyricism, sensitivity, depth. Not to trash Slava, of course. He was unmatched in many other ways. In this recording, Barenboim is fantastic, too. He, like her , is very rare phenomenon.
When they play together the chemistry ignites, in no uncertain fashion; this performance of so vibrant, rich a work of Brahms proves the claim, as do many others in the chamber music repetoire. Indeed it could be said that Daniel Barenboim never plays better, with more flair, verve and boldness, than he does with Jaqueline du Pré, equals on a par.
I grew up with the du-Pre/Barenboim Brahms cello sonatas. Their interpretation has not been surpassed and still lives for me, and I've heard plenty of recordings by others since. Thank you for sharing -
Thanks Lance - I must be honest to say that I have not heard the Feuermann/Piatigorsky, but imagine that would be great also. I'll look out for it, thanks -
The whole of this sound architecture is a flight into the Sublime. It is a very beautiful music played with exceptional skill and an impressive inner feeling. A delightful listening and therapeutic experience .
une passion à quatre jacqueline , barenboim , brahms et le violoncelle sublime de jacqueline ,, on ne s'en lasse pas jamais , commentse lasser d'un brahms quand il est ciselé avec l'art du joaillier de génie qui sans chercher le luxe immanent trouve par miracle l'alchimie éthérée qui fait l'unicité de brahms merci
Il suono del violoncello entra nell'anima e poi come lo esprime la Dupre' è meraviglioso! Grazie Brahms Duprè e Barenboim e grazie per la pubblicazione.
Escuché, o mejor dicho me inmergi en este inmenso mosaico de artesanía espiritual y me olvide, inclusive de mi, de la soberbia y hasta de ir a trabajar. Ya para que, necesito rozar suelos donde no llegue lo convencional...la paz ahora me arroja a un mundo, que si lo veo con los ojos del corazón, puede ser un lugar brillante, asombroso y aún bastante hermoso
In spite of other masterpieces, for instance Beethoven's 4th and 5th, Debussy's, Grieg's, I do consider that the two greatest cello/piano sonatas of the music history are this one and Beethoven's third op. 69, which obviously greatly inspired this one. Beethoven's 4th and 5th more or less mark the so-called Beethoven's "third period" beginning, which was one of the absolute tops of the music history with the late Bach. In my mind, "they rank aside", but the majesty and inventive symmetry of his op. 69, which we retrieve in this sonata; have some kind of olympic and apollinian features. Note that the two sonatas lack of a properly lyric slow central movement; they have alternatives of their own. In this sonata, some critics considered that it was not so good to write a fugue in a cello/piano sonata, exchanging the subject between the two instruments, but on the opposite I do consider that it is a quite creative mark, within a rather austere association of two quite different instruments (an organist playing a fugue by Bach makes most often use of contrasting registrations. You can also find some similar features in some movements of Bach's Brandeburg concerts, which obviously Brahms knew.
IMO this is the version all others will be forever compared to and no others I've heard yet come close. Du Pré is up there with Casals when it comes to pure emotion, tone and musicality. And hats off to Barenboim who plays the perfect dynamic counterpart.
Потрясающе!Мой муж пианист Сергей Форостяный играл эту сонату с виолончелистамиРоманом Стороженко и Глебом Степановым.Гениальная музыка!!!Моя дочь впервые услышала ее в материнской утробе и потом вспомнила,услышав на концерте,будучи уже подростком и взрослой...
An Extraordinarily poetic vision, which Jacqueline du Pre captures from her very first statement. Daniel Barenboim gives us a deeply poignant and ultra sensitive collaboration. It's a peak experience from him, and shows his receptivity to her vision. This is not the Barenboim who recorded the entire Mendelssohn Songs Without Words it is said, at one sitting. Thank you Davit Stepanyan. Perhaps Brahms thanks all three of you.
Cuando conocí el trabajo musical y la vida de Jacqueline Du Pre quedé maravillado. Escuchar la ejecución de su música y pensar en ese bello talento me asombra. Gracias igualmente a Daniel Barenboim por ser un pianista y director extraordinario.
lemandjwzz: I sincerely hope that this piece (and many, many others) will open a new horizon for you. This is a wonderful world that one should not miss. On the other hand, in my experience, it will ruin your desire to listen to most other, non-classical music (excluding the Beatles).
A qualidade de som desta gravação é perfeita, o timbre do cello é maravilhoso nos deixa arrepiados. Mostra como o vinil tinha uma qualidade fantástica mesmo sendo de reprodução mecânica. Brahms ficaria muito grato ao ouvir Dupré.
Jacqueline Du Pre. Me cautivas hoy y siempre. Qué belleza. La prueba de que Dios existe es que hay personas que se acercan a una perfección inimaginable para nosotros, el resto de los mortales. Son como ángeles que nos mandan para que aliviemos nuestros dolores y podamos amar a la vida que es tan dura y dolorosa. Gracias Davit. Gracias Jacqueline desde el cielo tocando un cello espiritual para todos los mortales. A veces te escucho.
+Chino Canibal respeto su punto de vista. No lo comparto. El talento es una palabra y una capacidad muy pequeña para albergar tanto. No le hacemos honor a esos genios cuando le decimos que tienen o tenían talento. Todos tenemos talento. Todo niño tiene talento. Usted y yo tenemos talento. Pero no importa, antes que discutir e incluso dialogar, yo me alegro y conformo con escuchar a Dios a través de Jacqueline. Escuche usted lo que le den sus oídos, yo busco algo más allá de la sensación física. Vivimos de Fe no de Vista. Gracias y que Dios lo Bendiga.
Siempre recuerdo Jacqueline du Pré con una mezcla de tristeza y admiración.Tristeza por su muerte después de haber sufrido 17 años una esclerosis múltiple.Admiración por su excelencia interpretativa De Barenboim me siento orgulloso como connacional por sus interpretaciones de música argentina y por todo lo demás: un grande
2:15 I swear Tigran Hamasyan must have taken inspiration from this line. I forget what song he uses a very similar idea, but it sounds just as ominous and powerful in both contexts.
It's such a stunning piece. I'm going to start working on this piece as well but it's so hard. I stopped playing cello in high school and picked it up again 12 years later. Do you have any tips about tackling this piece?
Mark LaPolla I am playing this piece right now. I think that at first you need to practice with a metronome a lot. It is important to have an inner sense of pulse, otherwise the pianist will have no chance of being able to playing with you. That being said, this is not a strict rhythmic piece, and there is no one speed. So stretch the phrases when it is right to do so, but keep a fairly steady pulse in your head. But most of all, just have fun with it!
In so many ways! Jackie was so loving sweet and kind...and a bit of a prankster. lol! Danny was handsome and brilliant and also very sweet! I was so thrilled Jackie asked me to turn pages for him at one of their recitals in London. :)
une étoile est descendue sur terre , elle s appelle jacqueline dupré , une merveille musicale unique , la musique irriguait chacune de ses veines , merci jacqueline pour ces moments de bonheur si rares si intenses
Liam Maliner No he's right. My cello teacher was discussing this with me and he was remarking that Brahms' Cello Sonatas depend on the accompaniment a lot more than most sonatas. The whole peice would sound bare without the cello
Brahms was too smart and resourceful (and too good a pianist) to waste the piano on mere support... the same is true of his clarinet (or viola) sonatas. Violists might put those parentheses the other way, but they'd be wrong, of course.....
Beethoven also wrote his first cello sonata as an equal partnership, even going so far as to call it a "sonata for piano and cello" (normally the cello would come first in the name).
@Liam- I don't know why youtube won't let me reply to comments. I think this applies to all instrumental sonatas. In sonatas the piano is almost never a "backing part"- sonata implies equal weight between partners. Even if the piano almost always *does* have a melodic part, melody is not the measure- in lots of string quartets of the classical era, the first violin has near-total monopoly over the melody, and the cello has a monotonous, purely non-melodic part, but no one calls them "a sonata for violin with string trio accompaniment", or a sonata for two violins "with viola and cello accompaniment". It's a string quartet. I think people should get over the glory of melody. Playing the melody all the time can give someone a false feeling of importance, so much that they forget to listen when they *don't* have the melody, that they're completely incapable of playing less, of simply "supporting" while someone else has the melody; it becomes too difficult, maybe even inconceivable. Calling anything a violin sonata or a cello sonata or a flute sonata is completely disrespectful to the music, to the composer, and to the other partner in the piece. This performance was magical.
It comes down to naming conventions more than anything. But, having played the piece before with accompaniment, I agree completely that it feels (and needs to be played) much more like a duet than a piece for the cello with piano accompaniment. It's a glorious peace though :3
As a cellist, I've performed this piece myself. I have always called it "Brahms Sonata for Cello and Piano in E minor" for the precise reason that it is a true duet - both parts are equally important.
It is a great responsability to play with this most gifted du Pré. Her play is deep and alive, never heart it elsewere. Now Barenboim can acompany du Pré just by hemself not hindered by an inactive London Symphony Orchestra as when they played Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. 104, B. 191 by Antonín Dvořák. This Brahms is the only peace I can play by heart (mediocre cello player as I am), I love it.
I will never forget playing the Brahms E minor for Jacqueline back in 1967. She insisted I play it on her beautiful Davidov Stradivarius cello. I was pretty thrilled. At first I did not feel worthy and said "Oh...that's ok." and smiled. She said, "Christine, you do not say no to the chance to play on the Davidov!" And so I smiled and took the cello and played it for her. She was 22 and I was 17. She was newly engaged to Daniel Barenboim and had his photos with her plastered all over the hotel mirror. We talked and talked and she ordered up some hot chocolate and biscuits for us. It was an afternoon I will never forget. We also wrote to one another after that. It is always a great joy rereading her letters! I am 68 now....so many years ago and yet it sometimes seems like it was yesterday. Some day I must see that they get into the right hands for all to appreciate.
Wow! what was her cello like to play on? She sounds like such a wonderful amazing person :)
What a beautiful story for us other dregs of humanity to inspire us to keep on plodding on in our meaaningless accountancy of empires lost; Madame Newland et Madame Barenboim, nee du Pre, you contributions will make our unmarked deaths so much less painful - like Hans Canstorp's [Magic Mountain - Der Zauberberg - Thomas Mann] when Castorp was hurling himself to certain destruction of himself and ancient Europe while singing to himself the soothing tunes of der Lindenbaum by Schubert . . . What is life worth without beauty . . .
Christine, thank you so much for telling us bout such a wonderful memory. I think I went to a concert at the Royal Festival Hall where Jacqueline was playing the Elgar, although I'm not certain. I have a real passion for classical music. I play the piano (just improvise - not professionally!). You and I are of the same generation.
Christine....I am highly jealous of your experience! How WONDERFUL! Oh....to have known her.......
Thank you a lot for that incredible story!
The Davidov Stradivarius cello, Brahms, and Jacqueline du Pre lined up to enrich our civilization. We are blessed.
man as a violinist I just always get a little bit jealous when i hear that rich sound the cello produces
It is not to late to switch ;)
@@AzazelCain nah i fell in love with the violin, not with the cello!
Can relate lol
As a cellist, i am jealous that the violin have got more beautiful pieces than the cello. And in orchestra, the violin got almost all the melodies while cellist are just playing the baseline. And most of the non-musicians only know what is the violin while think that the cello is a big violin. :(
As a cellist I always get a little jelous at all those lovely tunes you get in orchestra 🤣
This is my favourite performance os this piece, this sonata is just perfect. I wish I could have listened Du Pre when she was still alive. It's a shame, but at least her music keeps her alive. For me, the best cellist of the XXth century. I admire her so much... An example.
For me, she is and always will be the best! She bared her soul and became the music when she performed. I saw her a few times and I went on stage with her to turn pages for her husband Daniel. She was a powerhouse of emotion and creative energy! She let me play on her cello when we met for the first time in 1967.
Agree fully ! I know nothing about music, but listened to her while resting from studying for exams, I was in my late 50's studying Chinese medicine. I had been a fan of Piatigorsky, but after I heard her, that was it. Once in a century such greatness comes.
I literally weep when I am hearing this glorious Brahms Cello Sonata. I weep even more when I think of Jacqueline du Pre putting up this majestic performance. Her playing can make anyone cry, such is her passion! I am 68 and to know that sometimes life is so cruel as to snatch this diamond from us the music lovers is unforgivable! I miss you greatly Jacqueline and your wonderful smile will forever be embedded in my heart and mind!
Exactly how I feel.
@@Michajeru Thank you. I am sure you will agree with me that Jacqueline is the greatest women Cellist's that ever lived! She is my idol!
This is exquisite! Jacqueline du Pre was the most gifted cellist ever. No other artist interprets the Brahms Cello Sonata in E minor like she did. I am glad that I got to attend one of her concerts at Carnegie Hall.
U got to c her???!!! Lucky duck ! When did u see her?
+Ikoikjji I attended one of Jacqueline du Pre's concerts at Carnegie Hall in New York City in 1968 when I was a 12 year old cello student. I went backstage to meet her on a long receiving line with my mother, a concert pianist, and Jacqueline du Pre wished me good luck with my music studies. She was beautiful with her long blonde hair wearing a modern, simple silk gown. Jacqueline du Pre was so inspiring and I remember practicing much harder after that concert. My parents, both musicians, took me to see all the greats in concert. It was easy because we lived in NYC. It was a great concert!.
wow that s amazing!!!
do u still play cello?
+Ikoikjji I have never played the cello professionally but I have always enjoyed playing it at home. When I was teaching school for many years I gave many cello demonstrations and small recitals in class. I still play cello for fun!
+Vivienne Courtney Wow!!!What a nice memory!!! I am astonished to listen Jacqueline du Pre playing Bach when she is young. If she had lived longer, she should have been sublime in performance as much as Pierre Fournier.
Jacqueline du Pre was a consummate artist and ranks among the cello greats. Thanks so much for posting this great performance.
Nein. Sie war nicht EINE Fon großen. Sie war eine einzige. Andere Planet. Only one.
Leider für anderen.😊
Brahms melodies are so emotive, and strong, so decisive. Really inspiring.
1st Movement: 0:00
2nd Movement: 12:23
3rd Movement: 18:16
Hope this helped!
Thank youuuu
@@MariaVirginiaIturriPerez -- Yes indeed....and Mil Gracias desde San Agustinillo, Oaxaca!
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Ending of the first movement has got to be one of the most beautiful things ever.
Jacqueline du Pre is simply amazing and the piano accomplice! :), (Daniel Barenboim) is perfect!
Einzigartig - Danke fürs teilen !! 😢 und 💛 🙏🌤 🌞 🌟
Wenn Sie Brahms gerne mögen,gefällt Ihnen vielleicht auch das Folgende hier. Sonate für Cello und Klavier F-Dur.
th-cam.com/video/IbdR3Ea5CIU/w-d-xo.html
Du Pre's cello sings. Incredible artist
I don't play nor do I read music but cello touches my soul so deeply that at times I go into a trance.
I bow to you, Johannes Brahms, for such autumnal beauty! I bow to you, Jacqueline du Pre and Daniel Barenboim, for such masterly playing! This is a precious precious recording!
@@hapalmah It is true. Her mom was her pianist until Jaqueline meet Baremboim
Such a masterpiece by Brahms. And the interpreters...
This is a marvellously assured and emotionally infused rendition of a much loved repertoire piece - thumbs all the way from the start to the end - there is no doubt about it - the spirits of sublime artists and maestros such as Du Pre live on in their works - how wonderful and fitting!
Love this comment.
Sublime, passionate and unequalled performance.
The second theme of the 1st movement is so singular....its musical equivalent of a person who lost a great love....an anguish from the heart
Yes, but so does the entire first movement. I doubt anyone has played it so well. Perhaps Mischa. You must also like the second movement of the Double Concerto.
What a wonderful work by my 2 favorite musicians! Thank you so much for sharing this . . .
Sublime, divine..no words to describe the magic dust Jackie sprinkles around my ears. Divino, no hay palabras....
She would love that you said that...I can see her smiling!
Simply superb! Both cellist and pianist; thank you for sharing it with us. Brahms, always Brahms -sad, melancholic but always genial.
Rostropovich and Du Pre are my all time favorite cellists that I look to constantly for inspiration and insight. This is one rare instance where I can't decide which bits of whose interpretation to base mine off of. They both play Brahms so beautifully (I'm not sure why everyone seems to dislike Rostropovich playing Brahms and worship Jacqueline, not that hers isn't gorgeous). I just fucking love this aaaa
Both of them are hilarious. Yet I had the pleasure of listening to Martha Argerich and Mischa Maisky. He so lives the moment. You can literally see him feel the music. So I‘d add him to the all time favorite cellists.
Wonderful depth of lyricism. She was one in a billion, or even more. I played this once with Rostropovitch. Really. Her reading far outshone his. He also did a Rachmaninoff with Horowitz in Carnegie Hall. Again, he could not compete at all with Horowitz' lyricism, sensitivity, depth. Not to trash Slava, of course. He was unmatched in many other ways. In this recording, Barenboim is fantastic, too. He, like her , is very rare phenomenon.
This comment is only appropriate to write someone who played with Rostropovich, respect.
Deeply admire and respect you, sir.
When they play together the chemistry ignites, in no uncertain fashion; this performance of so vibrant, rich a work of Brahms proves the claim, as do many others in the chamber music repetoire. Indeed it could be said that Daniel Barenboim never plays better, with more flair, verve and boldness, than he does with Jaqueline du Pré, equals on a par.
I grew up with the du-Pre/Barenboim Brahms cello sonatas. Their interpretation has not been surpassed and still lives for me, and I've heard plenty of recordings by others since. Thank you for sharing -
+Michael Cowan I simply cannot find a better interpretation. And, if I do, I'll be very, very impressed that such an interpretation would ever exist.
+Lance Clark try Feuermann's and Piatigorsky's. Like this one too
Thanks Lance - I must be honest to say that I have not heard the Feuermann/Piatigorsky, but imagine that would be great also. I'll look out for it, thanks -
+Michael Cowan Did you hear Diaz/Sanders?
No Gus, but imagine it was pretty good. Thanks -
Du Pre, always with intensity and feeling using the strings of the cello to sing the strings of her heart.
This cello sonata is the most representative of the brahm romanticisme. It is sensational........
The whole of this sound architecture is a flight into the Sublime. It is a very beautiful music played with exceptional skill and an impressive inner feeling. A delightful listening and therapeutic experience .
une passion à quatre jacqueline , barenboim , brahms et le violoncelle sublime de jacqueline ,, on ne s'en lasse pas jamais , commentse lasser d'un brahms quand il est ciselé avec l'art du joaillier de génie qui sans chercher le luxe immanent trouve par miracle l'alchimie éthérée qui fait l'unicité de brahms merci
Il suono del violoncello entra nell'anima e poi come lo esprime la Dupre' è meraviglioso! Grazie Brahms Duprè e Barenboim e grazie per la pubblicazione.
L'interpretazione di questa Sonata che peferisco in assoluto
this cello sonata is dank as fuc homie
Oh yeah, this cello sonata is off the hizzle
meme master 69 Big bomberclot chune, seeeen.
+John Murray i seee the Jamaican influence
+1952mclean Explain, please
+1952mclean yes it means that this sonata awsome is :D
Escuché, o mejor dicho me inmergi en este inmenso mosaico de artesanía espiritual y me olvide, inclusive de mi, de la soberbia y hasta de ir a trabajar. Ya para que, necesito rozar suelos donde no llegue lo convencional...la paz ahora me arroja a un mundo, que si lo veo con los ojos del corazón, puede ser un lugar brillante, asombroso y aún bastante hermoso
In spite of other masterpieces, for instance Beethoven's 4th and 5th, Debussy's, Grieg's, I do consider that the two greatest cello/piano sonatas of the music history are this one and Beethoven's third op. 69, which obviously greatly inspired this one. Beethoven's 4th and 5th more or less mark the so-called Beethoven's "third period" beginning, which was one of the absolute tops of the music history with the late Bach. In my mind, "they rank aside", but the majesty and inventive symmetry of his op. 69, which we retrieve in this sonata; have some kind of olympic and apollinian features. Note that the two sonatas lack of a properly lyric slow central movement; they have alternatives of their own. In this sonata, some critics considered that it was not so good to write a fugue in a cello/piano sonata, exchanging the subject between the two instruments, but on the opposite I do consider that it is a quite creative mark, within a rather austere association of two quite different instruments (an organist playing a fugue by Bach makes most often use of contrasting registrations. You can also find some similar features in some movements of Bach's Brandeburg concerts, which obviously Brahms knew.
La migliore interpretazione di questa sonata...emozionante!
fantastic , magic , music of haeven ,, we lesson brahms himself , thanks jacqueline du pré , love for ever ,
So beautiful....Jackie was such a genuine soul! I treasure her friendship until my final day. :)
This is the first cello sonata I liked. I play classical piano for years but I actually listened to the Brahm's first cello Sontata and I like it
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10:45 till the end of the first movement… the most beautiful minutes in the whole sonata ❤️
❤❤
1. Allegro non troppo - 00:00
2. Allegretto quasi Menuetto & Trio - 12:24
3. Allegro - 18:15
I was searching the comments for this haha thank you!
This is a reflection of my soul. 😭😭😭 it's so friggin beautiful.
beautiful is understood without a stand in swear word
IMO this is the version all others will be forever compared to and no others I've heard yet come close. Du Pré is up there with Casals when it comes to pure emotion, tone and musicality. And hats off to Barenboim who plays the perfect dynamic counterpart.
Barenboim is really good here.
Потрясающе!Мой муж пианист Сергей Форостяный играл эту сонату с виолончелистамиРоманом Стороженко и Глебом Степановым.Гениальная музыка!!!Моя дочь впервые услышала ее в материнской утробе и потом вспомнила,услышав на концерте,будучи уже подростком и взрослой...
An Extraordinarily poetic vision, which Jacqueline du Pre captures from her very first statement. Daniel Barenboim gives us a deeply poignant and ultra sensitive collaboration. It's a peak experience from him, and shows his receptivity to her vision. This is not the Barenboim who recorded the entire Mendelssohn Songs Without Words it is said, at one sitting. Thank you Davit Stepanyan. Perhaps Brahms thanks all three of you.
Cuando conocí el trabajo musical y la vida de Jacqueline Du Pre quedé maravillado. Escuchar la ejecución de su música y pensar en ese bello talento me asombra. Gracias igualmente a Daniel Barenboim por ser un pianista y director extraordinario.
Truly beautiful.
Thank you!
어떤 첼리스트의 연주에서도
느낄수 없는 브람스의 색깔은
넘 나 탁월하네요
신이 주신 재능을 공유할 수
있어서 감사드립니다
No words...how can someone be so talented...she is the best of all the time
Yes This IS pure Joy
Perhaps you will like the following music by Brahms,too.
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Miss her forever....永远怀念您！杜普蕾。。。
Beautiful.
Das ist Musik. Danke J.
Jacqueline du Pré plays lovingly with a great economy of mouvement. She's almost motionless throughout the whole performance.
I'm not the biggest fan of classical music but this shit is a masterpiece man. So good
i loved your comment
Watch Mischa Maisky do it live ;)
Find Daniil Shafran performance. This is genius
Best comment!
lemandjwzz: I sincerely hope that this piece (and many, many others) will open a new horizon for you. This is a wonderful world that one should not miss. On the other hand, in my experience, it will ruin your desire to listen to most other, non-classical music (excluding the Beatles).
Escucho esta melodía todos los días antes de dormir :)
In my youth, I loved Beethoven. In my old age, it's Brahms
May you share why? And Mozart ?
I would also like to now pwease :3
Priceless~ thank you for posting this!☀️
A qualidade de som desta gravação é perfeita, o timbre do cello é maravilhoso nos deixa arrepiados. Mostra como o vinil tinha uma qualidade fantástica mesmo sendo de reprodução mecânica.
Brahms ficaria muito grato ao ouvir Dupré.
Afinal é Duprê e um Dadidov Strdivarius.
Jacqueline Du Pre. Me cautivas hoy y siempre. Qué belleza. La prueba de que Dios existe es que hay personas que se acercan a una perfección inimaginable para nosotros, el resto de los mortales. Son como ángeles que nos mandan para que aliviemos nuestros dolores y podamos amar a la vida que es tan dura y dolorosa. Gracias Davit. Gracias Jacqueline desde el cielo tocando un cello espiritual para todos los mortales. A veces te escucho.
+Maruja Romero Se le llama talento y no tiene nada q ver con Dios.
+Chino Canibal respeto su punto de vista. No lo comparto. El talento es una palabra y una capacidad muy pequeña para albergar tanto. No le hacemos honor a esos genios cuando le decimos que tienen o tenían talento. Todos tenemos talento. Todo niño tiene talento. Usted y yo tenemos talento. Pero no importa, antes que discutir e incluso dialogar, yo me alegro y conformo con escuchar a Dios a través de Jacqueline. Escuche usted lo que le den sus oídos, yo busco algo más allá de la sensación física. Vivimos de Fe no de Vista.
Gracias y que Dios lo Bendiga.
Por favor no me vengas con berborrea si no quieres discutir o te sientes ofendida por no creer en un dios.
La practica es la más importante.
cello is so fucking rocking me right now
I love the sound of the Cello...
Ах, как точно выбран темп! Великолепный ансамбль!
Wow... such depth and feeling.
Imagine brahms going into a studio today. I'm all the way up!
Oh, gosh. I might play this next, though I can't imagine myself doing it! So gorgeous!
Try it! You will fall in love with it!
So beautiful,merci.
Es como escuchar una sinfonía, tan extraordinaria!
This is how a genius sounds.
Jacqueline Du Pre - the gift of Mother Nature to all of us.
plus Mother Culture
No- the gift of God, the Creator! PS Check out backtobasicsradio.com- excellent teaching of the Messiah! דליה אפרת
прекрасно и совершенно...
светлая память великой виолончелистке...
Toca com a alma miss Du Pré! A melhor interpretação da primeira sonata de Brahms !
Siempre recuerdo Jacqueline du Pré con una mezcla de tristeza y admiración.Tristeza por su muerte después de haber sufrido 17 años una esclerosis múltiple.Admiración por su excelencia interpretativa De Barenboim me siento orgulloso como connacional por sus interpretaciones de música argentina y por todo lo demás: un grande
What a lovely sonata! Amazing!
Two great artist daniel y dupre amazing cello and pianist
Прекрасное произведение !!Спасибо за вдохновенное исполнение.
2:15 I swear Tigran Hamasyan must have taken inspiration from this line. I forget what song he uses a very similar idea, but it sounds just as ominous and powerful in both contexts.
Gracias por subirlo,Gracias por los comentarios.Saludos desde Mendoza {Argentina}
My favorite
Absolutely beautiful.
Wonderful ! Thank you so much :)
du Pre...
I missed you so much !!!
This will be my next sonata. So beautiful. I only hope to do as well as Jackie.
As if.
I got the music in. I can hardly wait to start playing.
It's such a stunning piece. I'm going to start working on this piece as well but it's so hard. I stopped playing cello in high school and picked it up again 12 years later. Do you have any tips about tackling this piece?
Sam M I've been playing it. It's harder than it looks. But I'm loving it.
Mark LaPolla I am playing this piece right now. I think that at first you need to practice with a metronome a lot. It is important to have an inner sense of pulse, otherwise the pianist will have no chance of being able to playing with you. That being said, this is not a strict rhythmic piece, and there is no one speed. So stretch the phrases when it is right to do so, but keep a fairly steady pulse in your head. But most of all, just have fun with it!
¡¡¡Hermosa melodía!!!. Muchas gracias por compartirla.
I love the melody from 14:10 - 16:00 it's so sweet and lovely
its beautiful
SIMPLEMENTE....DIVINO...!!!! BESITOS
Admirable, simplement...
Heart breaking Beautiful
Դավիթ ջան, շնորհակալություն
Magnifica sonata. Bravi!
Her ‘Impressions’ album from EMI is amazing. It contains Elgar, Beethoven, and Hayden. It’s a two disc CD.
Bravissima. Grazie Jacqueline ❤
Спасибо за музыку. Очень прекрасная интерпретация!
wow.
Daniel & Jacqueline...inspiring couple!!!
In so many ways! Jackie was so loving sweet and kind...and a bit of a prankster. lol! Danny was handsome and brilliant and also very sweet! I was so thrilled Jackie asked me to turn pages for him at one of their recitals in London. :)
This cello sonata is full-hearted human.
une étoile est descendue sur terre , elle s appelle jacqueline dupré , une merveille musicale unique , la musique irriguait chacune de ses veines , merci jacqueline pour ces moments de bonheur si rares si intenses
Wish I owned a cafe so I could play this for everyone.
Really, this isn't a cello sonata. It's a Cello and Piano sonata. The piano is not backing, it actually has a melodic part
Liam Maliner it's a cello exam piece I'm preparing for it
A Cell Sonata can either be, a Cello with an accompanying instrument or a Cello without an accompanying instrument.
Liam Maliner No he's right. My cello teacher was discussing this with me and he was remarking that Brahms' Cello Sonatas depend on the accompaniment a lot more than most sonatas. The whole peice would sound bare without the cello
Brahms was too smart and resourceful (and too good a pianist) to waste the piano on mere support... the same is true of his clarinet (or viola) sonatas. Violists might put those parentheses the other way, but they'd be wrong, of course.....
Beethoven also wrote his first cello sonata as an equal partnership, even going so far as to call it a "sonata for piano and cello" (normally the cello would come first in the name).
@Liam- I don't know why youtube won't let me reply to comments. I think this applies to all instrumental sonatas. In sonatas the piano is almost never a "backing part"- sonata implies equal weight between partners. Even if the piano almost always *does* have a melodic part, melody is not the measure- in lots of string quartets of the classical era, the first violin has near-total monopoly over the melody, and the cello has a monotonous, purely non-melodic part, but no one calls them "a sonata for violin with string trio accompaniment", or a sonata for two violins "with viola and cello accompaniment". It's a string quartet. I think people should get over the glory of melody. Playing the melody all the time can give someone a false feeling of importance, so much that they forget to listen when they *don't* have the melody, that they're completely incapable of playing less, of simply "supporting" while someone else has the melody; it becomes too difficult, maybe even inconceivable. Calling anything a violin sonata or a cello sonata or a flute sonata is completely disrespectful to the music, to the composer, and to the other partner in the piece.
This performance was magical.
Stfu nerd. It's semantics.
It comes down to naming conventions more than anything.
But, having played the piece before with accompaniment, I agree completely that it feels (and needs to be played) much more like a duet than a piece for the cello with piano accompaniment.
It's a glorious peace though :3
Timothy Wylie you're just being anti-semantic...
As a cellist, I've performed this piece myself. I have always called it "Brahms Sonata for Cello and Piano in E minor" for the precise reason that it is a true duet - both parts are equally important.
Brahms called it Sonata for Cello AND Piano for a reason... equal partners.
wonderful!!!
It is a great responsability to play with this most gifted du Pré. Her play is deep and alive, never heart it elsewere. Now Barenboim can acompany du Pré just by hemself not hindered by an inactive London Symphony Orchestra as when they played Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. 104, B. 191 by Antonín Dvořák. This Brahms is the only peace I can play by heart (mediocre cello player as I am), I love it.