Johannes Brahms - Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op. 115
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- - Composer: Johannes Brahms (7 May 1833 -- 3 April 1897)
- Performers: Karl Leister (clarinet), Amadeus Quartet
- Year of recording: 1967
Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op. 115, written in 1891.
00:00 - I. Allegro
12:21 - II. Adagio
23:26 - III. Andantino - Presto non assai, ma con sentimento
28:03 - IV. Con moto
When Clara Schumann first heard this quintet, she wrote: "It is a really marvelous work, the wailing clarinet takes hold of one; it is most moving. And what interesting music, deep and full of meaning!" These poignant words by Brahms' closest female friend belie Brahms' disingenuous comparison of the work with his earlier Clarinet Trio: "[It is] a far greater piece of foolishness."
- From the first movement, the music pulsates with yearning. In its opening measures are the seeds that germinate in the rest of composition, which is equally perfect in its power of evocation and its structural rigor. The autumnal mood of the work results in part from the subtle shifts throughout between the closely related keys of D major and B minor.
- Most notable is the second movement Adagio, a tender love song whose wistfulness seems to reflect the entire decline of the late Romantic musical ethos. Of course there is more to this piece than its dreamlike evocations.
- Listen to the Presto, with its Hungarian folk-dance style and...
- the finale's intriguing variations, the last of which returns full circle to the opening theme of the first movement. "Foolishness" indeed!
The quintet received its first private performance on 24 November 1891 in Meiningen, with Richard Mühlfeld and the Joachim Quartet, led by Joseph Joachim who often collaborated with Brahms. The public premiere was on 12 December 1891 in Berlin. - เพลง
Fun fact: A man was asked to write a review of this piece for a newspaper after it first premiered, however he didn't actually go to the concert but still wrote a review. He basically put, "It was nice, but the sound of five clarinets was a bit odd." He didn't realise it was for clarinet and string quartet!
A similar story happened with Prokofiev's Scythian suite
@@joshscores3360 LoL. I saw this on a concert list and that's exactly what I thought "5 clarinets?!"
Man I love this haha
Rookie mistake
Not that fun. It’s sad, Idiots and ignorants always have something to say, many of them are the “experts” and artists feel they need their opinion…
This was the last thing I got to play before my accident. 😢 I miss you, viola.
I hope you will be able to play again in your life! Keep your head up! I can't imagine how that must feel.
Steven Vinson you will play again
You still get to keep the joy of hearing this gorgeous music - and that's no small thing. I hope you are recovering well.
@@ShepMaestro Saying that someone will play again when they know they will not be able to is actually not only rude, but also insensitive. I hope this never happens to you, but if it does, I hope you will be able to grow like this person did, and at least find joy in listening and studying music in a different way.
Zarathustra I’m sorry if you took what I said as insensitive but I was encouraging that anything is possible. I’m not disregarding the injuries that has happen to that person I was simply saying and believing that one day that person will play again. Im a believer that anything is possible good day.
Thank You Brahms
+Yrjö Mansnerus Yes, thank Brahms for creating such a beautiful composition!
Thank you olla........................
I've been going through your collection of songs. I've listened to at least 10 of them in just the last 2 hours.
Alexandra .Willitts
That's great to hear! There will be more uploads soon :)
+olla-vogala
Hey, while I've got you on the phone here........................
How much do you know the music of Aaron Copland?
I've been trying to figure out a piece that sounds like his stuff (Early American westernish.....) for more than 20 years.
If I can describe something for you do you think you could pick it out or would you be just as lost as I am?
Olla..................I'll come back in the next few days to check in with you.
Ciao babe.
The crying of the clarinet is like a dagger in the heart, especially in the second movement, who else but Brahms has the ability to make beauty so painful?
... or to make pain so beautiful... :-)
Claude Desimoni it was exactly what I also thought. x Both ways are true anyways.
Bach.
Chopin and Rachmaninov
Ladies and gentlemen, we found the pianist.
Karl Leister is even today still the clarinettist to beat. What a beautiful sound, lister to his fabulous and smooth technique, his superb high notes and indeed blending with the other musicians. This Brahms quintet is the top of chamber music and this recording the best of what I have heard so far and that are many.
I agree. Along with Robert Marcellus
One of the most wonderful masterpiece in music history.
As someone once said of this piece, "In this work, Brahms sums-up his life. It is a statement of resignation without bitterness, cloaked in an autumnal mist."
That's his Clarinet Sonata. He was going to retire in 1890 before hearing a German musician and stated that he is the best wind musician in the world, then he wrote the Clarinet Sonata from that inspiration.
@@wiseferret4745
That direct quote is from "The Columbia Book of Music" (published by Columbia Records around 1947, now long out-of-print). The author was Reginald Kell.
Few things are as beautiful as this quintet.
The clarinet pierces my soul figuratively
Johannes Brahms:h-moll Klarinétötös Op.115
1.Allegro 00:05
2.Adagio 12:21
3.Andantino - Presto non assai, ma con sentimento 23:26
4.Con moto 28:03
Karl Leister-klarinét
Amadeus Vonósnégyes
Köszönöm az értékelést
This piece is so beautiful that, at times, it’s almost too painful to listen to. An outpouring of late Romantic feeling tempered by Classical architectonics. That is precisely what Brahms could do better than just about any other composer. An elegiac belatedness pervades this piece. The only chamber piece that affords me more pleasure is Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 14 in C# minor, Op. 131. Thank you for posting this, complete with the score to follow along.
My very first impression of this piece, when I was a teenager, is that I found it quite odd, but very compelling. I didn't quite understand it, but I knew that I would come to understand it and love it. I was a huge Brahms fan from the tender age of 3 on. I was so reminded of the late Beethoven quartets upon first hearing this, particularly 131 and 132, my 2 favorites. I knew it was something that could only be composed toward the end a lifetime of rigourous compositional output, much like those of Beethoven. The Clarinet Quintet is one of those pieces that even Brahms detractors can't deny. I agree, its beauty is painful. The phrase that begins at bar 5 of the first movement causes me to well up every time. The second movement could not be more wistful.
'painful', yes!
@@jb8256 I completely agree. There's a tragic beauty to Brahms works. It's conventional as it completes where Beethoven left off, but then it's unconventional in the thick scoring, counterpoint, and rythms.
So true. Sublime, but it is so painful. I heard it in a chamber music seminar in university (1990)--this very recording with Karl Leister. Profound that I cannot listen to it too much. It takes a lot of emotion to take it all in.
What a beautiful, warm and deep performance. Karl Leister was THE clarinetist of his generation, and you can hear it.
Well, I heard Leister only two years ago in Spain - He is still the fine clarinetist we grew up loving.
@@pieke12 Hey John: Are you really John McCaw or the ghost of John? The one I loved passed away only about 5 yrs ago. Great British/New Zealander Clarinetist and teacher. Superb performances of the Mozart and Nielsen concertos! Different than Karl Leister: actually a refreshing change in character playing.
I can't believe that as a lad of 16 in 1950 we used to spend every Sunday afternoon playing quartets and, frequently, this unbelievably difficult work. Paul Harvey ( of, later,"The Bedside Clarinettist" fame,) My sister Rowena (later, Principal 'cello, New Philharmonia) Peter Fisher sightreading the viola part on his B-flat clarinet. myself (Covent Garden, English National, first to revive the Elgar Concerto in 1973 after 40 years neglect). Heaven help us, I don't remember any of us bothering to observe the dynamics! But WHAT a childhood. I wonder who's doing it now?
Started learning clarinet mainly to be able to play this. Wish me luck.
Me too! (3rd year)
A truly wonderful piece of music, and a performance to match. Some years ago my wife and I and some friends heard this performed at the Liverpool Philharmonic, with Jack Brymer as the clarinettist.
I have a recording with Jack Brymer. I am not a jazz fan but the rhythmic freedom with which Brymer played it sounded jazz inspired and Brymer loved jazz.
When listening to pieces like this and reading the parts I always feel like Salieri on THAT Amadeus scene, just crying amazed and sweeped out by it
Beautiful recording. This is one of the most profound pieces of chamber music that I know of. Bars 7-12 are simply exquisite. The slow movement is searingly beautiful. As you said, an autumnal mood abounds. Even during its most complex passages this work exudes great emotional impact. Thanks for posting it.
Thank you, and I agree! Do you know Reger's clarinet quintet? If not, I highly recommend checking it out (I've uploaded it on my channel).
I think (maybe i should just think it and not say it as probably i will be stoned) that Reger clarinet quintet is an exquisite development of brahm's style, reaching its maximum expression (losing its fussy nature).
And, at a slightly further remove in time and genre, the B flat and A major Quintets by Franz Schmidt for clarinet, piano (left-hand) and string trio.
Thanks for the detailed description - you penned (or typed) just the words I was looking for. Maybe a better recording because it was originally done in analogue! The conversion was also well done.
@@raulespejo2587 Fussy?? Well, it's a free country.
I think it's a very modern and beautiful piece! I think it's a piece that feels like the music is crying.
I didn't know this Brahms piece at all, and had to look it up. Last night I heard it performed at the Saronic Chamber Music Festival here on Poros Island, Greece- Sergio Pires on Clarinet, Violins Bogdan Bozovic, Katharine Gowers, Viola Francis Kefford and Cello Julian Arp. Tears were shed for the beauty, elegance, and complexity of this piece. We are fortunate on this small island to have such exquisite performances!
00:05 - I. Allegro
12:21 - II. Adagio
23:26 - III. Andantino - Presto non assai, ma con sentimento
28:03 - IV. Con moto
best quintet ever written, always deeply moving for me!
Utterly beautiful. Thank you.
Just an amazing piece and it flows so well. What it must have been like to hear it in that era.
Astounding work! Thanks Brahms, performers and olla!
i can't take much more of this 😭😭😭
Truly wonderful. Leister's exquisite ability to blend (and not always try to be the solo instrument as so many do here) makes this one of the most revealing performances of this piece - one of the greatest and most profound in all chamber music.
Excellent, exquisite rendition of this very beautiful masterpiece.
Listening this work, in Schwarz Wald, near by Lindenthal, just after Baden Baden in east, where Brahms had a house, and in autunm by feet or by car but also and mainly in villages of the center germany around the river Main or in Eiffel, in Germany, near by the town; Monschau. Thanks colors shadings records and of course thanks of intensity's shadings of the clarinett mostly but also the strings.
I love the counterpoint in the fourth movement, and the restatement of the 1st mvt's theme!
It's in 6/8, but Brahms's advanced rhythmic and metrical thinking make this a lot trickier to play together.
Brahms really knowed how to write melody for clarinet
This is good, so far only on the 3rd movement, but I will always love the way brahms writes to make the strings yearn...exuberantly beautiful
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1주제 0:00
2주제 1:37
코데타 2:28
발전부 5:48
코다 11:34
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1부 12:00
2부 15:45
3부 19:46
코다 22:32
3악장
서주 23:28
제 1주제 24:50
제 2주제 25:13
4악장 28:02 테마
29:00 1변주
30:00 변주 2
„Power Generation Department“? 😂
Google Translate is a bit sketchy
Credo che sia in assoluto la più bella esecuzione esistente di questo stupendo Quintetto di Johannes Brahms. Il Quartetto Amadeus e Karl Leister lo interpretano magnificamente come un misterioso sortilegio, come un incantevole miraggio intriso di una sublime malinconia: una pura costruzione della mente tanto affascinante quanto irraggiungibile. Alla fine dell'ultimo movimento la musica non termina, piuttosto si può dire che si spenga, come la fiamma di un cero ormai consumato, che - dopo un ultimo, quasi disperato bagliore - si estingue in un soffio. E noi sentiamo che un sogno meraviglioso ci è sfuggito di mano, e quasi temiamo di non poterlo rifare mai più...
Ah, Marina, tu sei un poeta. Brahms amo' Clara Schumann tutta la vita. Dopo la morte di suo marito, Robert, voleva vivere sempre una vedova. Nonostante, rimanevano amici. Credo che questa musica e' una reflessione di sua nostalgia nel autunno della vita, come hai suggerito, per un'amore mai consumato e perduto per sempre.
Una bellissima e infatti poetica descrizione di questo pezzo - andrebbe tradotta in inglese!
Descrizione fascinosa e pertinente di un capolavoro. Personalmente propongo un confronto con la ugualmente meravigliosa registrazione di David Oppenheim con il Quartetto di Budapest, quella di David Shifrin con il Quartetto Emerson, quella della splendida Sabine Meyer con il Quartetto Alban Berg e quella antica e storica di Reginald Kell con il Quartetto Busch
@@ivocosimodamianonardulli5803 Tutte esecuzioni splendide! Un vero modello quella storica di Reginald Kell e il Quartetto Busch; un bellissimo esempio di accuratezza, di intelligente aderenza alla partitura quella di Shifrin con il Quartetto Emerson.
@@marinacaracciolo3161 considerazioni interamente da sottoscrivere. Ve ne sono alcune altre non prive di valore ma devo confessare che la mia predilezione va a OPPENHEIMER/ QUARTETTO DI BUDAPEST soprattutto per l'esecuzione del magnifico secondo movimento che nel clima di mestizia rassegnata e crepuscolare si accende nell'episodio centrale di un colore tragicamente inquietante, come di un dramma che riemerga e sia evocato nel corso di un'analisi introspettiva per poi ripiombare nella rassegnazione priva di speranza della coda. In quell'episodio il colore del clarinettista ha una timbrica da brividi senza perdere di consistenza e con il Budapest che lo segue con intensità febbrile ma mai scomposta. Per me un capolavoro...
I am a clarinetist and a student of music history. To me and I think many others, this quintet is to date the greatest single piece of Western classical music ever written featuring the clarinet.
The Brahms IS a masterpiece, but greater than the Mozart Clarinet Quintet?
@@justin10292000 Yes, but the Mozart is a close second.
Great synchronization.
Boom... that was amazing. Just starting to look into Brahms and I got this... wow!
A beautiful performance.
Bedankt voor het delen en bedankt voor de noten erbij!!! Ik ga het weer spelen!
Veel succes en plezier gewenst!
Olla Vogala, Bedankt voor het delen! Wat fijn dat de bladmuziek synchroon met de muziek is.
So cool, so beautiful!!
Thanks Olga. It's a most beautiful work and the recording is apparently flawless though it is tough to evaluate in compressed digital audio format. TH-cam has not been thought for music lovers. Sharing is although a BIG thing. Thanks.
This piece is incredible. I get the melody starting at 15:49 stuck in my head all the time - so hauntingly sad and uplifting at the same time. Well performed too, amazing job Karl. Would love to know if he still plays.
That melody takes inspiration from traditional Romanian folk music, which in itself is extraordinarily poignant and beautiful. Check this out to see the resemblance: th-cam.com/video/N9fsEHoL7dc/w-d-xo.html. Hope you enjoy! :)
Yes, what a dramatic and arresting moment!
Mooie souvenirs aan de Master-Class in Enghien,dank.
Romantismo profundo! Brahms fez bem ao admirar tanto os quartetos de Beethoven.
A miracle. And that penultimate chord!
i love Johannes so much...
Me too...my whole life.
Hey, Johannes. Your orchestral works put me to sleep but your sonatas and chamber works gave us reason not to lock you away somewhere solitary.
Brahms is amazing!
2:13 Amazing moment... we keep expecting to enter C major but the clarinet throws us off into some kind of dream world.
I love first sentence with this deep mellow flow my heart get jump fully enjoy so nice music❤️❤️❤️❤️🙏😇
Thanks again Brahms!
Thanks for this :)
This is the most profound work by a guy who wrote a lot of profound stuff.
I consider this quintet recording to be one of the finest. I found that Karl Leister's tone blends beautifully with the strings. However, I can't say the same for his recordings of the Brahms Sonatas or others accompanied by a piano. While they are great, this quintet recording is truly exceptional.
Clarinet has never sound so good like in this quintet!
I love you, Lord Brahms!
If this quintet and the Reger are your cup of tea, treat yourself to the amazing Robert Fuchs Quintet in E flat.
Bravo Karl Leister, Bravi !
Grazie
Delightful!
My old man played this so well.. With the Element quartet and Lindsay. God bless you fatman
ブラームス晩年の傑作ですね。配信ありがとうございます。
14:34 is heavenly
1 ч
ГП - 00:17
СП - 01:07
ПП - 01:37
ЗП - 02:29
2ч
1 раздел - 12:23
Середина - 15:49
3ч
1 раздел - 23:29
Середина - 24:51
4ч 28:05
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Magical piece. He anticipates much of the French parlor music while never entirely abandoning the storm under drang of German Romanticism. Also it sounds really cool.
This Music 's SPECIAL
The second movement killed me. I should get back to studying before my book gets wet.
I'm watching and listening with a big pleasure this masterpiece. And now I can feel the geometry of music. I can smell the scent of every note. I'm feel in love with universe and musical universe made of textures, scents, forms and of course... architectural music from all we are made of, because we live thanks to the frequency of harmonis who keep the universe like as it is. Its like if we mix Einstein theorys about relativity and patterns made of universal musical web. Like an universal spider who have knitting the forms of universe. Its a very big spidy who's doing this. Terryifying and fantastic. I drink this smoothie every night: dicotomic thoughs about how universe is written and if the tempo of the universe could make my song.
Sounds like you must be tripping on magic mushrooms !
how ones heart gets warm and tender in the reprise 03:00-03:20
Same here!
ㅠㅠㅠ 진짜 잘 분다...오늘도 연습해야지...ㅠㅠ
as a small child I used to dance from 23:26 on pretending I was in a mysterious jungle
Oh what a wonderful memory! You have passed it on, and now I think of a deep mysterious forest. Thank you.
@@afischer8327 Oh I'm very glad it gave you something imaginative! Best wishes
can you post brahms' string sextet no 2
This piece is rightfully thought of by many as Brahms' greatest work and certainly one of the greatest works of 19th century music.
But people who play chamber music know that the Op. 111 and Op. 88 viola quintets (string quartet + viola) are in the same class -- I would encourage people to seek them out on TH-cam and get to know them as well.
Op. 111 was actually intended to be Brahms' final major work before his retirement. Its mood is jovial, even festive, evocative of an amusement park, so I don't think it's right to use these pieces to speculate on Brahms' mood at this period in his life. He was just writing what was beautiful to him.
Anyway, it was after Op. 111 that Brahms saw a concert featuring the brilliant clarinettist Richard Muhlfeld. Brahms was so inspired, he put retirement on hold and wrote two clarinet sonatas, the clarinet trio and this quintet -- all of which are masterpieces. I've been playing chamber music for 50 years and those clarinet sonatas have been among my most treasured pieces of music since I was a teenager.
6:57-7:43
Sublime transformation of the bridge theme !
Bar 9 for the first violin in the second movement
15:49 뮬펠트를 위해 작곡 , 동기의 발전적 변형기법 사용
Brahms studied Haydn's chamber works extensively, and you can see the little trick of starting this B Minor piece with a D Major chord in a couple of Haydn's earlier string quartets.
Op.33, No.1: th-cam.com/video/CfKWJMmre8w/w-d-xo.html
Op.64, No.2: th-cam.com/video/gfPnd-7o-tw/w-d-xo.html
#2part - 12:23
#2part Piu lento - 15:45
I love this quintet so much, too bad it's for A clarinet instead of Bb. My favourite part is from 6:57 on.
Dear friend try to traspose the ehole quintet. Brahms transposed at first sight a sonata playing with Joachim...try.
@@francobonanni218 @andreia castanheira You could also buy a clarinet in A. Mozart's clarinet concerto in A major is also for clarinet in A, so you could also play that too :) haha
So beautiful...
23:27 = 3rd Mouvement
I hear so much schoenberg in this!
I close the night, the curtain of this day
With Brahms' quintet
Beautiful, painfully
Quan la música escapa als límits de la física...
It’s always October at Brahms’ place. A great October, but still October.
12:21 = 2nd Mouvement
At first I was like, "why would someone write in Bm for a Bb instrument?", and then I realized he didn't...
3:03
15:48
28:03
34:38
(See below) ; I don't know what you lot do down south, but THAT'S how we used to spend our Sunday afternoons in the back streets of Sheffield.
Did you know my father Peter Dickens by any chance - lead violinist at King Edward's school in Sheffield but gave up music for national service and chemistry. He loved the violin and classical music, especially chamber music, all his life
Esta melodía fue interpretado, por primera vez, el casa de los Wittgenstein.
-Fight and Flight should play in the 3rd chapter-
21:05 dotted descending reminds me of beethovens 9th :)
Let’s see Squidward perform THIS!
15:50
My Gran' played it as well:
Anyone else recognize the theme Schoenberg took from this to use in Verklarte Nacht? Kind of obvious.
Yes!! And I think there is a lot else in the Quintet which inspired Schoenberg.
3:00 - That little bit is so gorgeous
6:56 ♥
9:38 Cinema Paradiso Theme?
yes
The viva interview for my A-level Music 1951: Examiner "Do you play an instrument?" "Certainly, we play the Brahms Quintet on Sunday afternoons": (VERY suspiciously: "can you hum any of it? Nonchalantly I accurately rattled off most of the first page. Result? Unsurprisingly, Scholarship level A-*!
3:54 (현악 4중주 3번 2악장 remind)