Classical

Johannes Brahms

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Hannu Lintu, conductor
Ray Chen, violin

Hannu Lintu & Ray Chen

Brahms

BRAHMS Symphony No.3: III. Poco Allegretto

French pianist Hélène Grimaud has done what few have dared try-- record both Brahms Piano Concertos No. 1 (performed live with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra), and No. 2 (performed with the Vienna Philharmonic). It’s her personal Everest, after first discovering the romance and drama of  No. 1 as a young girl, and combining it with No. 2, a decidedly different and evolved piece. Grimaud discusses the events of Brahms’ life in conjunction with these two masterpieces.

KDB 93.7FM interview with Pianist Hélène Grimaud

Brahms Symphony No. 4 In E Minor, Op. 98

Lalo Symphonie Espagnole for Violin And Orchestra, Op . 21

Lindberg: Serenades

Nielsen: Helios Overture, Op. 17

Hannu Lintu & Ray Chen - Broadcast

Christoph von Dohnányi conducts the New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall, featuring pianist Paul Lewis

April 10-12, 2014

00:00:00 - Intro
00:03:44 - Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1, I. Maestoso
00:27:08 - Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1, II. Adagio
00:39:38 - Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1, III. Rondo (Allegro non troppo)
00:52:38 - Intro to Schumann
00:54:34 - Schumann: Symphony No. 2, I. Sostenuto assai; Un poco piu vivace
01:07:39 - Schumann: Symphony No. 2, II. Scherzo: Allegro vivace
01:14:47 - Schumann: Symphony No. 2, III. Adagio espressivo
01:24:34 - Schumann: Symphony No. 2, IV. Allegro molto vivace
01:33:12 - Closing Credits

Christoph von Dohnányi conducts Brahms and Schumann

Rudolf Buchbinder is the soloist in the Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2.  The second half of the concert features Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6, "Pathétique."  Music Director Alan GIlbert conducts. 

00:00:00  Billboard & intro to Brahms
00:01:49  BRAHMS: Piano Concerto No. 2, i
00:19:14  BRAHMS: Piano Concerto No. 2, ii
00:28:06  BRAHMS: Piano Concerto No. 2, iii
00:39:54  BRAHMS: Piano Concerto No. 2, iv
00:48:53  BRAHMS: Back-announce and Intro to Tchaikovsky
00:49:44  TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 6, i
01:08:21  TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 6, ii
01:16:04  TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 6, iii
01:25:26  TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 6, iv
01:35:48  Back-announcement and credits
TRT: ~01:37:33




Gilbert & Buchbinder perform Tchaikovsky's "Pathétique" & Brahms's Piano Concerto No. 2

Johannes Brahms--"Herr, lehre doch mich" from German Requiem

Brahms - Symphony No. 4 In E Minor, Op. 98 - III. Allegro Giocoso

Brahms - Symphony No. 4 In E Minor, Op. 98 - II. Andante Moderato

Brahms - Symphony No. 4 In E Minor, Op. 98 - IV. Allegro Energico E Passionato

Tartini allegedly told the French astronomer Jérôme Lalande that he had dreamed that the Devil had appeared to him and had asked to be Tartini's servant. At the end of their lessons, Tartini had handed the devil his violin to test his skill, which the devil immediately began to play with such virtuosity that the composer felt his breath taken away. The complete story is told by Tartini himself in Lalande's Voyage d'un François en Italie:

One night, in the year 1713 I dreamed I had made a pact with the devil for my soul. Everything went as I wished: my new servant anticipated my every desire. Among other things, I gave him my violin to see if he could play. How great was my astonishment on hearing a sonata so wonderful and so beautiful, played with such great art and intelligence, as I had never even conceived in my boldest flights of fantasy. I felt enraptured, transported, enchanted: my breath failed me, and I awoke. I immediately grasped my violin in order to retain, in part at least, the impression of my dream. In vain! The music which I at this time composed is indeed the best that I ever wrote, and I still call it the "Devil's Trill", but the difference between it and that which so moved me is so great that I would have destroyed my instrument and have said farewell to music forever if it had been possible for me to live without the enjoyment it affords me.

Despite having said that this sonata was his favorite, Tartini later wrote that it was "so inferior to what I had heard, that if I could have subsisted on other means, I would have broken my violin and abandoned music forever." 
While he claimed he composed the sonata in 1713, scholars think it was likely composed as late as the 1740s, due to its stylistic maturity. It was not published until 1798 or 1799, almost thirty years after the composer's death.

The sonata would become the basis for Cesare Pugni's 1849 ballet Le violon du diable, as well as Chopin's Prelude No. 27.

Tartini Violin Sonata in G minor "the Devil's Trill Sonata"

Arnold Schönberg - String Quartet No. 2

1. Allegro
2. Andante
3.Vivace non troppo

Maria Angelica Carlsen, violin, 
FFWW, cello, 

Ole Kristian Ruud, conductor, Norwegian Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra. 
30 january 2010

Brahms: Concerto For Violin, Cello & Orchestra In A Minor, Op. 102

The Requiem in D minor, K. 626, is a requiem mass by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Mozart composed part of the Requiem in Vienna in late 1791, but it was unfinished at his death on 5 December the same year. Wikipedia

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Classical Collections The Masters, Vol. 8

Requiem Mass in D Minor K 626

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Borodin String Quartet No. 2 (full)

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La forza del destino

Requiem, K. 626. Dies Irae

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Brahms Symphony No. 4 In E Minor, Op. 98

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