@@ezekielbrockmann114 I absolutely agree! I listened and played it too many times to count.And now in retirement I don’t listen as often, but the experience is always amazing and also bittersweet 🥰
I love everything I've ever heard composed by Brahms. His last two symphonies are to die for. This Fourth is played at the right tempo. In recent years, some conductors insist on too-fast tempos. This is especially true of interpretations of the Mozart 35th and 39th Symphonies.
This was my favorite piece of classical music, then I forgot it's name and couldn't find the video any longer. It haunted me. Finally, three years later I've finally found it again and now every note feels like a new experience and meeting an old friend altogether. I'm crying with joy.
Magnificent! The first time I heard this symphony I was 15. It was performed in London by the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Antal Dorati. That was 60 years ago and I have loved this piece above all others ever since. Bernstein and the Vienna Philharmonic take it to a new level. Just magnificent!
Anne Charette lBrahms a fost descoperi de Robert Shumann intr un select restaorant din Berlin..Si a invita sotia la ocina acest i la prezenta...A facut parte din Orcestra simfonica din Berlin Robert erea mare consumato droguri de risc si mare risc,inspecial opium si vin.In putinii ani de mariaj cu Clara a nascut cinci copii..La decesul sau cel mai mic copil avea o luna ...E meritul copozitorrului de a se implica in familiia lui Robert .NICIODATA NU VA FI Deacord cu casatoria lui cu vaduva Schumann.Era intre ei odiferenta de 20de aniiauttt
This is a breathtaken unique, emotional and intense interpretation from the biggest and best conductor ever. And one of my favourite romantic symphonies. Brahms was a genius composer, and Bernstein a genius conductor and musician. Cant get better.
With me, it was the Brahms German Requiem I played in at age 18...still am in love with it at age 64, truthfully one of the highlights of my life, looking back...
The fourth movement is right up there with some of the most well written symphonies ever. Bernstein interprets the score the best of all conductors I've heard.
Upon hearing this recording for the first time I thought it was an indulgent disaster, but now I can’t stop coming back to it. It is a different approach but it’s refreshing in its own merit. A great performance.
This the most extraordinary performance of the 4th I've ever heard, there is also a video in DVD of the four symphonies with the VPO. The was a time in which I used to listen every weekend during a long time. Leaving apart the first symphony, the 4th is the best because it was his last testament. Bernstein for ever, I like even more than Karajan version.
This work of Herr Brahms made a deep impact on me at an early age. Still one of my very favorites! Especially the first and fourth movements! Beautiful!!
I can listen to this 100x a day .... I cant describe a single word of how I am very much moved by this Symphony, And looking at the score, its just divine. Brahms' Musical Architecture at it's peak and Bernstein truly understood it. Bravo
Honestly I think that was the point. This entire symphony has a sense of... oh, what the hell can you can it? Struggle? Like a profound longing to embrace the joy of life yet constantly fighting depression every step of the way. (With the possible exception of the third movement) At least, that's the way I've always interpreted and experienced it.
I used to hate how the PYO conductor didn't ritard at all at the end of the first movement, but now I prefer that. Especially the part at 12:59, if you even accelerando into it and don't ritard at all I love it more than the ritard, it's like it's falling down a black hole of insanity
I heard Leonard Bernstein and the VPO conduct this identical program (Beethoven, Bernstien, Brahms) in Toronto (October 30, 1988), the greatest concert-going experience of my life. Thanks for sharing this.
I die with the second movement... it doesn´t exist words to express what it transmit to me... it,s too incredible. I wish I could thank Brahms for compose some that get into my heart directly
Ah, such wondrous music. I read the comments below and gotta say that I haven't found the comments section of a vid so positive and respectful, until now. This music and its listeners have class!! Class is about quality, not quantity, methinks. I have to stop writing and listen. mmmmmmmmmmm
My lifelong favourite symphony. To my ears, this is a 'Hollywood' interpretation but most others commenting here love it... and LB is a great musician, so I shall try again!
I totally agree with my Greek friend below...can't read his name. This Symphony is both moving and beautiful..I turn this on, while reading by the fireplace....of course I also have a glass of Puligny Montrachet as my repast. At 83 these are the things that make me feel great again...Semper fi.
He wrote this piece for Clara Wieck, Shubert's wife. Shubert was his teacher but Schubert suffered of serious mental illness which at the end he was institutionalized because he lost his marbles. I love this composition because it transmits passion, soul ache, anger, frustration. Just a lovely musical piece. Also after Schumman was institutionalized he stayed with her and her 15 children. In those times things like that were frowned upon, the scarlet letter given only to women
I do love Bernstein's interpretation of Brahms's bucolic Second Symphony with the VPO, which is, in my opinion, extremely sublime and spectacular, and this performance of Brahms's Fourth is equally magnificent, too. Thank you very very much for sharing.
Still amazed at the genius who composed this. Of course as a pianist I am still in awe of the "simple" works by Brahms and their incredible beauty - the Intermezzos, Ballades, etc. You have to wonder where all these melodies come from? The Fourth Movement is one of the greatest in the symphonic literatuture - magisterial is the only word to describe it.
I. Allegro non troppo (00:00) II. Andante moderato (13:33) III. Allegro giocoso (27:19) IV. Allegro energico e passionato (33:47) Thank you for uploading the video!
There was a period in my youth, where I listened to this work almost all days (my father used to register from radio too, and had one), and I consider it among the best music works of all times. To mention also the 3rd (and whose 3rd movement is so sweet, familiar, conciliating and popular), 1st & 2nd :).
I think it's a marvelous, and somewhat unorthodox, performance! "Sentimental" connotes saccharinity, and Brahms never crosses the boundary, nor do I think Bernstein does in this performance.
This masterpiece's magnificent performance genius Bernstein conducts and wonderful performers with incomparable skill and breathtaking technique is beyond description , unfathomable , inspirational , graceful and comfortable to the ear and the mind From Tokyo of the Land of the Rising Sun 🇯🇵
+marcelouz1 Do you really mean tragic. I think it starts off tragic and then hauls itself back from tragedy. It's always struck me as the most uplifting symphony of the lot! Isn't musical ambiguity great!
I'd like to know how that shattering double-tempo e minor cadence at the end can be described as uplifting. Bernstein said it was "a clenched fist raised in hot defiance to the heavens" and I can't agree more.
The beginning is so good. all you hear is the violins. And then a wall of sound behind them. Suddenly it becomes more cleaerer. And then you go on a 40 minute ride
To the listener who was confused about first movement being in 3/4: Brahms is famous for his stretto- if in a three pulse, it can be stretched into a 4/4 sometimes over two full bars or measures. More over, for Brahms, there is very seldom a clear cut metronome beat- you often cannot even find the beat. That is why the 3/4 is very confusing to 'feel the pulse' with. He does the same to cadences- he'll stretch it and stretch it and end up with a deceptive cadence or Italian going into a V7 or a diminished 7th and modulate to another far flung key. Chopin is sort of similar, but he does similar things on a piano. A classical musician.
I've listened to the Brahm's Piano Concertos over and over again, but never really got to listening to his symphonies. This one is amazing and makes me wonder about the other three.
Merveilleuse interpretation de Bernstein, qui VIT Brahms, comme Schumann dont il est l'interprète idéal et absolu, et surtout Mahler. Sa 1ère symphonie "Titan" est impressionnante, et fascinante. Dommage que pour cette 4ème de Brahms, on n'a pas l'image de ce magicien tour à tour dansant , sautillant ,exalté, rêveur, electrisant un orchestre sous son charme ... Mais même sans l'image, je suis transporté. On ne peut pas faire plus beau !
Do check out Bernstein's excellent musical analysis of the 1st movement made way back in the early 50's. It's a splendid example of Lenny as the consummate teacher, speaking from the piano, with orchestral excerpts mixed in. Audio only.
I wish I would just forget this piece so I could experience listening to it for the first time once again. A transcendent experience
What a lovely tribute
I was enjoying knowing that after many months of not listening to it, I still remembered each note. It’s tattooed into my memory
For me, this tremendously profound thesis only improves with each subsequent listening.
@@ezekielbrockmann114 I absolutely agree! I listened and played it too many times to count.And now in retirement I don’t listen as often, but the experience is always amazing and also bittersweet 🥰
What a nice way to put it
There is a reason Brahms will never be forgotten. This is just another reminder that he is here to stay with us through his music.
you appal me, terrify me ... Brahms, forgotten!? i don't think so, my friend ... irene spence
@Mellon Clarinet p
Someone once said that the quality of Brahms' music depends on the quality of interpretation like no other. One can't help but to agree.
It is as though Bernstein wants us to hear and love every single note, it’s attack, it’s fullness, and it’s closure. Such a loving performance.
I love everything I've ever heard composed by Brahms. His last two symphonies are to die for. This Fourth is played at the right tempo. In recent years, some conductors insist on too-fast tempos. This is especially true of interpretations of the Mozart 35th and 39th Symphonies.
This was my favorite piece of classical music, then I forgot it's name and couldn't find the video any longer. It haunted me. Finally, three years later I've finally found it again and now every note feels like a new experience and meeting an old friend altogether. I'm crying with joy.
same thing happened to me,I just found it today after 40 years.! Great rendition. I used to hear it, but couldn't get the details.
Magnificent! The first time I heard this symphony I was 15. It was performed in London by the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Antal Dorati. That was 60 years ago and I have loved this piece above all others ever since. Bernstein and the Vienna Philharmonic take it to a new level. Just magnificent!
I just found this after 50 years. I was 21years old in France. Great rendition.
The work that Bernstein completed with the Wiener Philharmoniker was brilliant.
To me this is Brahm's most moving symphony and Bernstein is most intuitive in his interpretation of it. Truly sublime!
Agree! A part of this was played in my wedding 10 years ago. Still love it, and her.
Anne Charette lBrahms a fost descoperi de Robert Shumann intr un select restaorant din Berlin..Si a invita sotia la ocina acest i la prezenta...A facut parte din Orcestra simfonica din Berlin Robert erea mare consumato droguri de risc si mare risc,inspecial opium si vin.In putinii ani de mariaj cu Clara a nascut cinci copii..La decesul sau cel mai mic copil avea o luna ...E meritul copozitorrului de a se implica in familiia lui Robert .NICIODATA NU VA FI Deacord cu casatoria lui cu vaduva Schumann.Era intre ei odiferenta de 20de aniiauttt
Had Brahms created another symphony after this masterpiece, how would he ever have topped this!
I don’t agree, this is the most moving one out of all of symphony in the world 😀
@Anne Charette my name is Brahms, not Brahm
This is a breathtaken unique, emotional and intense interpretation from the biggest and best conductor ever. And one of my favourite romantic symphonies. Brahms was a genius composer, and Bernstein a genius conductor and musician. Cant get better.
I loved brahms 4th as a student many decades ago and, now, as a senior, it affects me just as deeply...so uplifting..... unerring beauty.
With me, it was the Brahms German Requiem I played in at age 18...still am in love with it at age 64, truthfully one of the highlights of my life, looking back...
I still shed tears over the beauty of it...
It's so pleasurable listening to Brahms.
Rose are red,
violets are blue,
I listen to concertos,
so my neighbor does too
ROSE is PINK
MORNINGS ARE HARD
POETRY is LIFE
TEA is GOOD
Rose are beautiful
Kiss is sweet
Morning coffee is fine
Sky is blue
Mahler is great
and Beethoven too,
but Brahms is the best.
Thank you fur bru!
@@AvntXardE : I know, but try expressing that in a four line verse.
@@alancrabb lol, right on!
Most beautiful symphony ever composed
Arguably so, but I do like the Saint Saens 3rd about as well.
@@PETERJOHN101 No argument from me! Peace and music
Fell in love with this when I was studying oboe in high school. Can still practically hum the entire piece, love it so!!
Perfection in an imperfect world...
Ik vind de interpretatie door Bernstein de meest dramatische, volle en geniaalste. Brahms, Bernstein en WP fantastisch!!!
My heart is breaking into million pieces every time i hear this beauty!!!! Excellent interpretation!!!! Truly beautiful piece! Thank you!
The fourth movement is right up there with some of the most well written symphonies ever. Bernstein interprets the score the best of all conductors I've heard.
His interpretation is magnificent, unfortunately the audio capture is awful, the orchestra sounds like it's performing in an alley way.
If Mozart is the mind, then we can say, Brahms is at heart.
such a grandiose symphony, Brahms must have loved receiving all these beautiful melodies.
@Андрей Бахарковскй Listen, i am a genius and all my ideas come from God or from the nothing, but i do not effort myself a shit.
Upon hearing this recording for the first time I thought it was an indulgent disaster, but now I can’t stop coming back to it. It is a different approach but it’s refreshing in its own merit. A great performance.
“Indulgent disaster” lol is that something akin to a hot mess??
The Coda to the first movement of this symphony is extraordinary and the reason I love Brahms!
It defies description. Huge beyond belief.
So much power!!!!
Diving into that strong painful melody with this perfact bass backing it
35:03
dat violins' G string
A uniquely slower interpretation, but it works and it's breathtaking! Bravo, maestro!
What I would give to forget this piece and listen to it again.
The first time I heard it, I was in tears after only a minute.
46 minutes de bonheur à écouter ma symphonie favorite , qui plus est dirigée par l'un des plus illustres chef du XX° siècle.
Que c'est vrai!
This the most extraordinary performance of the 4th I've ever heard, there is also a video in DVD of the four symphonies with the VPO. The was a time in which I used to listen every weekend during a long time. Leaving apart the first symphony, the 4th is the best because it was his last testament. Bernstein for ever, I like even more than Karajan version.
This work of Herr Brahms made a deep impact on me at an early age. Still one of my very favorites! Especially the first and fourth movements! Beautiful!!
I can listen to this 100x a day .... I cant describe a single word of how I am very much moved by this Symphony, And looking at the score, its just divine. Brahms' Musical Architecture at it's peak and Bernstein truly understood it. Bravo
Very complex and constructed manner id say but in terms of melodic component not as smooth and free flowing as othet composers
Honestly I think that was the point. This entire symphony has a sense of... oh, what the hell can you can it? Struggle? Like a profound longing to embrace the joy of life yet constantly fighting depression every step of the way. (With the possible exception of the third movement) At least, that's the way I've always interpreted and experienced it.
u can only listen to it 24 times a day
I love how the orchestra slows considerably as the diabolical end to the first movement approaches. Now THAT'S how you perform this piece!
I used to hate how the PYO conductor didn't ritard at all at the end of the first movement, but now I prefer that. Especially the part at 12:59, if you even accelerando into it and don't ritard at all I love it more than the ritard, it's like it's falling down a black hole of insanity
@@abelpalmer552 hi abel
@Eric Zhao how the hell did you find me here lol
@@abelpalmer552 I like to read through comments randomly, and I also like Brahms 4.
@@ericzhao7619 glad to hear you like this piece almost as much as me
One of my all-time favorites. Truly remarkable
Truly the masterpiece and peak of Brahms. Different from Beethoven or any other composer, such an original and sublime symphony. I love it.
I heard Leonard Bernstein and the VPO conduct this identical program (Beethoven, Bernstien, Brahms) in Toronto (October 30, 1988), the greatest concert-going experience of my life. Thanks for sharing this.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basking_in_reflected_glory
Thanks - I'd never heard of BIRG before !
Bernstein was a genius. One of the great conductors.
First movement Finale is one of the most powerful moment in classical music. The last four Timpani strokes are devastating.
magbag70 That’s why I choose to play Tymps!😍❤️
Agreed. It's one of the best endings in classical music, it's insanely huge and passionate I can't even describe it
I think that moment describes and concludes 300 years of music. If I could choose the greatest moment of classical music - it will be this one!
Imposible no escuchar al director del siglo.
México.
I die with the second movement... it doesn´t exist words to express what it transmit to me... it,s too incredible. I wish I could thank Brahms for compose some that get into my heart directly
13:33
Have just listened to a live performance by Hamburg Philharmonic in Las Palmas, Awesome!
Yes! Unspeakable beauty and intensity.
@@CCRider-if7mw unspeakable is the word, just music
Omg, the last 30-45 seconds of it alone!! I tear up EVERY SINGLE TIME I HEAR IT!!
Is for this reason that I love Bernstein and his Brahms is an abyss of emotions
Ah, such wondrous music. I read the comments below and gotta say that I haven't found the comments section of a vid so positive and respectful, until now. This music and its listeners have class!! Class is about quality, not quantity, methinks. I have to stop writing and listen. mmmmmmmmmmm
I think it's one of the most inspired performances I've ever heard of a Brahms Symphony, albeit an unorthodox one!
Agreed! Very different fro Kleiber!
My lifelong favourite symphony. To my ears, this is a 'Hollywood' interpretation but most others commenting here love it... and LB is a great musician, so I shall try again!
I totally agree with my Greek friend below...can't read his name. This Symphony is both moving and beautiful..I turn this
on, while reading by the fireplace....of course I also have a glass of Puligny Montrachet as my repast. At 83 these are the things that make me feel great again...Semper fi.
Semper Fi, Marine!
Puligny Montrachet for repast! Oorah!
Could I have a glass of Puligny too, please?:)
He wrote this piece for Clara Wieck, Shubert's wife. Shubert was his teacher but Schubert suffered of serious mental illness which at the end he was institutionalized because he lost his marbles. I love this composition because it transmits passion, soul ache, anger, frustration. Just a lovely musical piece.
Also after Schumman was institutionalized he stayed with her and her 15 children. In those times things like that were frowned upon, the scarlet letter given only to women
Ooh Rah!!
Thank you very much for sharing this sublime masterpiece.
The ads are an insult to all who are passionate about such masterpieces!
I agree.
the most wonderful piece in the world
I get goose bumps every time I listen to it. I am in awe
The most beautiful Brahms opening ...The 4th.
Pochantas Cherokee I agree!
Because it comes from Beethoven's Hammerklavier! (to be exact, bar 78 of the 3rd movement, adagio.)
Wess
@@EmreNurbeyler wow ! What's an hearing !
I agree!
I do love Bernstein's interpretation of Brahms's bucolic Second Symphony with the VPO, which is, in my opinion, extremely sublime and spectacular, and this performance of Brahms's Fourth is equally magnificent, too. Thank you very very much for sharing.
Still amazed at the genius who composed this. Of course as a pianist I am still in awe of the "simple" works by Brahms and their incredible beauty - the Intermezzos, Ballades, etc. You have to wonder where all these melodies come from? The Fourth Movement is one of the greatest in the symphonic literatuture - magisterial is the only word to describe it.
Aplausos para el Gran Maestro y la Gran Orquesta.
Just heard the Philadelphia Orchestra play this last night; can't get enough!
I. Allegro non troppo (00:00)
II. Andante moderato (13:33)
III. Allegro giocoso (27:19)
IV. Allegro energico e passionato (33:47)
Thank you for uploading the video!
Having a sublime musical catatonic but sharing it is the only remedy to love the best music.
Thank you.
the beginning swinging tune sounds like the sigh of the entire universe. very romantic/tragic.
windstorm1000 ... what a perfect description...
"...like the sigh of the entire universe..."
I LOVE that!!
funny you say that. What I have always said "If space was full of air it would sound like Brahms"
I have to say your comment '' the sigh of the entire universe'' is as amazing as the music itself. Excellent!
Beautifully described.
My favorite recording of Brahms 4th! Work of a genius!
Brahms most sublime symphony. Music to swoon to! The timpanist is very fine indeed.
CUANDO LA MUSICA LLEGA AL ALMA NO EXISTEN PALABRAS SOLO EMOCIONES
Emociones son palabras de la alma !
There was a period in my youth, where I listened to this work almost all days (my father used to register from radio too, and had one), and I consider it among the best music works of all times. To mention also the 3rd (and whose 3rd movement is so sweet, familiar, conciliating and popular), 1st & 2nd :).
26:22 this is where I ALWAYS start tearing up. Every. Single. Time. And I LOVE. IT!!!!
This is a sentimental interpretation, the orchestra lets the emotion flow and it's a moving performance.
I think it's a marvelous, and somewhat unorthodox, performance! "Sentimental" connotes saccharinity, and Brahms never crosses the boundary, nor do I think Bernstein does in this performance.
A masterpiece conducted by one of the greaterst ever
I totally agree!!!!!
truly compassionate rendering by Lenny, bless his soul
You can really feel the heartache and emotions.
If you like this, try Saint Saens 3rd Symphony, it's a blast.
First time listening to Bernstein's recording with the VPO. Loved it! Just wrecked me. Thanks for uploading this.
This masterpiece's magnificent performance genius Bernstein conducts and wonderful performers with incomparable skill and breathtaking technique is beyond description , unfathomable , inspirational , graceful and comfortable to the ear and the mind
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Tokyo of the Land of the Rising Sun 🇯🇵
Dense, rich and powerful. Love the richness of the strings in the first movement. Beautifully performed and conducted. ❤
A beautiful interpretation of this symphony, Brahms' best. And the best ever music to listen to while driving in the mountains!
Especially, now, in the Fall, and with such a dire Winter before us all. Pathos, Beauty, the Heroic, and this bracing mountain air!
Why haven't I heard this sooner? Beautiful!
The timpani in this symphony and this performance....I think this is the best timpani playing I have ever heard
かつて師から言われたこと。「Brahms は雑な作曲は絶対にしない。3楽章のTriangle はトレモロと刻みを明確に書き分けている。刻み部分をトレモロにしてしまっている演奏を聴くが、あれは違う！」人生で最初に好きになった指揮者が自分の師と同意見で嬉しい😊
Amazing Bernstein , no words only feelings, nostalgy and rage in the most extremely expression, and the most tragic Brahms's Symphony.
+marcelouz1 Do you really mean tragic. I think it starts off tragic and then hauls itself back from tragedy. It's always struck me as the most uplifting symphony of the lot! Isn't musical ambiguity great!
ambiguity is inherent in everything except those words which no-one hears unless they can.
I'd like to know how that shattering double-tempo e minor cadence at the end can be described as uplifting. Bernstein said it was "a clenched fist raised in hot defiance to the heavens" and I can't agree more.
@@abelpalmer552
I would say that's more than a bit hyperbolic. The word heroic with overtones of tragedy is as far as I would go.
Budd,hope you live 100 years. Word deserve people like you and life stile you show. Hugs from Milan
Quite superb; many thanks for this magnificent post.
The beginning is so good. all you hear is the violins. And then a wall of sound behind them. Suddenly it becomes more cleaerer. And then you go on a 40 minute ride
Yes, it's one of the magic attributes of Brahms.
Sometimes I comeback here to cry for a while
I listened to this symphony when doing my school home works in my younger days, long time ago!
Leonard and Brahms is the best convination...magistral play and conduction.
Quando la musica è una medicina per l'anima!
The quality of the recording is stunning. I am hearing new things. Amazing!!
Movement #2-- Andante Moderato - 13:33
Sublime... !!!!
Humanity would not have emotion without work like this.
Wunderbar.
it's so beautiful, my whole body loves it. My heart always beats faster when I listen to the first movement
To the listener who was confused about first movement being in 3/4: Brahms is famous for his stretto- if in a three pulse, it can be stretched into a 4/4 sometimes over two full bars or measures. More over, for Brahms, there is very seldom a clear cut metronome beat- you often cannot even find the beat. That is why the 3/4 is very confusing to 'feel the pulse' with. He does the same to cadences- he'll stretch it and stretch it and end up with a deceptive cadence or Italian going into a V7 or a diminished 7th and modulate to another far flung key. Chopin is sort of similar, but he does similar things on a piano. A classical musician.
I just saw this at the Denver symphony. It was so grand. The em sent chills up my spine. It is a beautiful work of art.
Музыка Брамса чарующая, обворожительная, проникновенная. Благодарю.
thanks for uploading and greetings from tasmania...
I've listened to the Brahm's Piano Concertos over and over again, but never really got to listening to his symphonies. This one is amazing and makes me wonder about the other three.
I am most fond of his 1st and 4th, but the middle two are very individual, as well.
Beautiful and consciousness changing
4:53-5:23: The imitation between violins and cellos... who knew it can be beautiful and yet so cathartic!
That part is so good and it gets better at the finale of the first movement where they each imitate each other in the main theme
Happy 100th Birthday Bernstein!
43:51: I hope that cough was worth it! Its been heard millions of times now!
The one at 17:58 is even worse.
@@Richard.AtkinsonI see someone is using this recording for the upcoming brahms videos
@@Richard.Atkinson looks like I was right
En mi opinión Leonard Bernstein junto con Karajan y Eugene Ormandy son los más grandes directores del siglo XX
Merveilleuse interpretation de Bernstein, qui VIT Brahms, comme Schumann dont il est l'interprète idéal et absolu, et surtout Mahler. Sa 1ère symphonie "Titan" est impressionnante, et fascinante. Dommage que pour cette 4ème de Brahms, on n'a pas l'image de ce magicien tour à tour dansant , sautillant ,exalté, rêveur, electrisant un orchestre sous son charme ... Mais même sans l'image, je suis transporté. On ne peut pas faire plus beau !
MSBOA All-State Violin Excerpt II is at 11:54
The masterpiece by genius conducted by another genius!
the coda of the first movement is a extraordinarly beautiful moment
Sumptuous. Love Brahms x
This piece is immaqulent
Meravigliosa esecuzione
The part at 1:40 is just so beautiful and sad.. thats why i play the cello :)
The part at 39:20 is why I play the trombone. :-)
Bongaz And 1:50 is why I play violin 😁😁
Bongaz And the part at 37:30 is why I play the flute, so delicate
Bongaz
Do check out Bernstein's excellent musical analysis of the 1st movement made way back in the early 50's. It's a splendid example of Lenny as the consummate teacher, speaking from the piano, with orchestral excerpts mixed in. Audio only.