Impossible to do justice to this piece with an earthly comment. Thanks the geniouses for the interpretation options!! Fast, slow (like Pogorelich) or perfect like this one, its magic cannot be missed,
Lovely piano sound under Kissin´s hands. A piece favorite of mine. I can't avoid to associate this piece with a farewell, perhaps because this was the motivation of the composer.
I would enjoy meeting Mr. Kissin someday as I've followed his career from afar since the time in the fall of 1990 when I first walked into Virgin Records on the Champs-Elysees and saw him (and his hair) on a large suspended screen playing Rach's Second with masterful energy and utter immersion into the nature of the work. I love all his Rachmaninoff output. However, I do tend to hear a Russian, Rach-like sound in his playing of pieces by other composers, and this performance of Brahms' Romanze doesn't sound very Germanic/Brahms-like to me. I say that readily acknowledging that I could never play this piece as well as he does, nor necessarily even well at all. But I think the piece calls for something a little different than the grandness of the 20th century Russian style. Perhaps it's a lingering on the keys a little longer than I would prefer that gives me a Russian feeling toward this performance. I realize it's easy to criticize the greats from behind a computer screen when they're doing on the piano what I never could, so I mean my comments respectfully toward this master's playing. He is truly one of the greats of our time.
consummate interpretation of an elegantly simple piece. listen to the middle voice "sings" in the allegro, between the gentle base and the controlled treble (wish i could trill with my 3 and 4 like that). just beautiful.
I hear a lot of similarities between this and the 2nd movement of Rachmaninov's Trio Elegiaque No.2, Op 9. They were probably written about the same time (around 1893, perhaps within several months of each other).
@Eorzean lol thanks for ur reply... yea i was being totally serious?? in case he doesnt have a disability, i did apologise in advance. iv just never seen nething like it. and there are those savants or wateva who are musical geniuses so i thought mayb the man in this vid was one of them thats al...
very romantic playing indeed but i think he didn't make the middle section "fly". The D Major Allegretto GRAZIOSO means more than a simple tonal and tempo shift, but a shift of landscape. Eine "Emporhebung", eine "Selbstbefreiung"(How seldom that Brahms frees himself from his melancholy! I can't help to see the old man pacing out of his meditation chamber and, drunk of the beauty of the nature, dancing unashamedly in the field). Such a middle section needs to be played with a brighter tone color(the flat-sharp-shift!), with a more light-hearted manner("leggiero" as Brahms wrote). It disappoints me that Kissin played it far too heavy. Maybe he had a different conception of the piece.
Why do i find this kind of piano music so terribly boring (nevermind all them classical superstars pulling their ridiculous antics during performing) and find Nicky Hopkins' or say, Floyd Cramer"s contributions to music Bliss Divine?
It's not an Intermezzo, it's a Romance. :)
Such deep emotion. So special.
I can not stop to cry listening this emotional playing
Impossible to do justice to this piece with an earthly comment. Thanks the geniouses for the interpretation options!! Fast, slow (like Pogorelich) or perfect like this one, its magic cannot be missed,
Lindooooo❤
Heart moving!
Your performance gave me goosebumps. Such emotion.
Amazing and very deep feelings inside!
Wonderful Kissin, who has not forgotten the meaning of "Romance." Beutiful Brahms sound and concept.
Lovely piano sound under Kissin´s hands. A piece favorite of mine. I can't avoid to associate this piece with a farewell, perhaps because this was the motivation of the composer.
This is one of my favorite Brahms pieces. See @1:32. Definitely one of the most beautiful and atmospheric moments in all of his piano works.
Love this
great....
What an ultimate face he is doing!
Good 'ole brahms😌
I would enjoy meeting Mr. Kissin someday as I've followed his career from afar since the time in the fall of 1990 when I first walked into Virgin Records on the Champs-Elysees and saw him (and his hair) on a large suspended screen playing Rach's Second with masterful energy and utter immersion into the nature of the work. I love all his Rachmaninoff output. However, I do tend to hear a Russian, Rach-like sound in his playing of pieces by other composers, and this performance of Brahms' Romanze doesn't sound very Germanic/Brahms-like to me. I say that readily acknowledging that I could never play this piece as well as he does, nor necessarily even well at all. But I think the piece calls for something a little different than the grandness of the 20th century Russian style. Perhaps it's a lingering on the keys a little longer than I would prefer that gives me a Russian feeling toward this performance. I realize it's easy to criticize the greats from behind a computer screen when they're doing on the piano what I never could, so I mean my comments respectfully toward this master's playing. He is truly one of the greats of our time.
He distinguishes the voices. Couldn't find Glenn Gould for that but Yevgeny is doing it.
consummate interpretation of an elegantly simple piece. listen to the middle voice "sings" in the allegro, between the gentle base and the controlled treble (wish i could trill with my 3 and 4 like that). just beautiful.
@rodriguezclassical
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I hear a lot of similarities between this and the 2nd movement of Rachmaninov's Trio Elegiaque No.2, Op 9. They were probably written about the same time (around 1893, perhaps within several months of each other).
Rachmaninovs trio elegiaque no.2 op9
Scriabin’s Prelude Op. 16 no. 3 also bears similarities of the first theme, written not long after this romance.
Incredible*
@Eorzean lol thanks for ur reply... yea i was being totally serious?? in case he doesnt have a disability, i did apologise in advance. iv just never seen nething like it. and there are those savants or wateva who are musical geniuses so i thought mayb the man in this vid was one of them thats al...
This is a romance not an intermezzo :)
I just adore this intermezzo
It makes me belive in God whether I like it or not
it's a Romance
This is not an Intermezzo op. 118 no.5. It's Romance op. 118 no. 5
And it's beautiful
Brahms wrote Romance though and not Intermezzo
0:31 game of thrones?
haha yeah good catch
It sounds Hymnal.
Is someone flshing a laser in his eyes?
Really like 1:35, 2:40,3:40!
Wanted to enjoy every note but sick with ppl who keeps coughing
very romantic playing indeed but i think he didn't make the middle section "fly". The D Major Allegretto GRAZIOSO means more than a simple tonal and tempo shift, but a shift of landscape. Eine "Emporhebung", eine "Selbstbefreiung"(How seldom that Brahms frees himself from his melancholy! I can't help to see the old man pacing out of his meditation chamber and, drunk of the beauty of the nature, dancing unashamedly in the field). Such a middle section needs to be played with a brighter tone color(the flat-sharp-shift!), with a more light-hearted manner("leggiero" as Brahms wrote). It disappoints me that Kissin played it far too heavy. Maybe he had a different conception of the piece.
this isn't an intermezzo... as far as I know, Op.118 No.5 (this piece) is a romance, not an intermezzo
haha its not an intermezzo
Romanze.
Why do i find this kind of piano music so terribly boring (nevermind all them classical superstars pulling their ridiculous antics during performing) and find Nicky Hopkins' or say, Floyd Cramer"s contributions to music Bliss Divine?
It's a problem of yours, no doubt.