Emanuel Ax - J. Brahms/ Intermezzo in A - opus 118

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  • @rainbowbudgies1129
    @rainbowbudgies1129 Рік тому +6

    Thank you for this video. I have always preferred Mr Ax’s rendition of this piece to all others. It is a very special treat to watch him perform it here.

  • @paul-x8i
    @paul-x8i Рік тому +1

    I love to listen to recordings of Radu Lupu play this as well, but I love listening and watching Emanuel Ax play this. I searched desperately to find again Emanuel playing this. I am so glad I found it!

  • @grandviewhall
    @grandviewhall 4 роки тому +13

    I have known this piece for over 50 years, but have never heard it played so beautifully! He unpacks the emotion so richly. Thank you and Bravo!

  • @Cristobels-Green-Boots
    @Cristobels-Green-Boots 2 роки тому +3

    Brahms - such a crusty old misanthrope: & he comes up with this!
    Unforgettably lovely...
    🙏🏻💔🙏🏽

  • @carmenpdl8918
    @carmenpdl8918 2 роки тому +2

    💖🙏 Meraviglioso! Grazie per il video. Non conoscevo questo grande pianista. Fantastico! Questo è uno dei brani che preferisco di Brahms.

  • @giogia49
    @giogia49 8 місяців тому +2

    Sincerly, Mr Emanuel Ax' is the best , playing Brahms,..His performance of this Intermezzo is so beautiful and thoughful , intimate, with the exactly tempo and connection with the music ....Bravo , I love it !

  • @ursulaspianostudio
    @ursulaspianostudio 9 років тому +36

    This is absolutely beautiful! I love his interpretation. He gets to the soul of this music. Yes, I have heard other recordings.

    • @xelamercedes
      @xelamercedes 7 років тому +3

      Agree wholeheartedly!!! Just listened to Rubenstein and, with all due respect, his interpretation is far too light and frothy for my tastes.

    • @epicaunleashed8764
      @epicaunleashed8764 Рік тому

      @@xelamercedes Since when do blacks listen to this type of music?

  • @Poeme340
    @Poeme340 2 роки тому +3

    I discovered Brahms through Emmanuel Ax and have never found a more sensitive performer of these deep and dark pieces. One can hear every note
    and nuance in his profoundly reverent playing.

  • @operalph
    @operalph Рік тому +1

    I keep coming back to this performance. For me, Ax employs rubato in these six minutes more perfectly than in any other performance of any piece, and not just for piano. The forward motion never stops, yet he has such control over the stretching of time. Pure bliss!

  • @edzove
    @edzove 10 років тому +7

    Unbelievable what Ax does here! Takes my breath away and it sets the standard for me!!!!

  • @shdog77
    @shdog77 11 років тому +14

    Every time I hear this piece I nearly stop breathing in parts. It just carries you away...can't help it.

  • @liamball8335
    @liamball8335 6 років тому +12

    Beautifully done. I like the combination of restraint and release. Other recordings tend to be a little too schmaltzy. This interpretation allows the simple beauty of the melody and the voicing to shine.

  • @aireusthomas604
    @aireusthomas604 9 років тому +8

    I played this for my senior recital in college and it still gets me to my heart. What a beautiful piece

    • @cicir423
      @cicir423 4 роки тому

      Same here...all of op. 118. This piece feels so personal to me, it is almost hard to listen to it.

  • @MJLeger-yj1ww
    @MJLeger-yj1ww 7 років тому +8

    I've heard a lot of recordings of this amazing piece of music but this is one of the best! Thank you for your beautiful rendition, E. Ax. I love your touch on the piano.

  • @SIXPOINTPROS
    @SIXPOINTPROS 11 років тому +9

    I love this version!!! I analyzed a few different performers playing this piece for school and Ax was easily my favorite

  • @jujuhearts
    @jujuhearts 3 роки тому +3

    well i just cried through that whole thing. one of my favorite pieces to play. i was looking for a recording to share with piano students and ended up just weeping... thank you, sir!

  • @jongleurette
    @jongleurette 12 років тому +2

    I love this performance. Passionate with a tiny bit of raw emotion, but also poetic and sensitive. My favorite so far.

  • @barrytaratoot312
    @barrytaratoot312 8 років тому +20

    I happen to be learning this piece as I watch and write this, and I've heard it played a hundred or more times by world famous pianists, students & enthusiasts alike, and I'm simply compelled to say no one can play the Brahms Opus 118 like you. I've read so much about it, gaining very little insight actually into the piece, yet, it's one of those pieces that somehow has a story to tell, a feeling it seems compelled to convey. You bring that out in the music like no other pianist. That's an amazing thing, as it goes beyond mere talent. Your recording of it is simply sublime and quite inspiring, Mr. Ax. You bring the greatness of this composer and the reflected agony of this piece of music composed some 123 years ago to life. That's a rare insight and talent indeed.

    • @bartwatts1921
      @bartwatts1921 7 років тому +4

      Beautifully said and I fully agree.

    • @khool63
      @khool63 7 років тому

      Brry je trouve qu'il existe des interprètes bien supérieurs à emmanuel ax ,,

    • @albertomartin4812
      @albertomartin4812 7 років тому +4

      You are completely right. This piece is a marvelous example of what Mendelssohn used to say: "the fact isn't that music has no specific meaning, but that it is so specific, that words can't describe it". Ax goes right into the core of that meaning. Wonderful.

    • @alger3041
      @alger3041 6 років тому +4

      Barry, I've heard other work by this pianist (aside from actually meeting him twice), and will say here that I agree with every last word in your posted comment. You should definitely try to listen to his other work. I have heard him in the four Brahms Ballades Op. 10 live in concert, and the experience has remained unforgettable for me. I could go on regarding other things I have heard, but all this is reflected in his actual warmth as a human being, something that many professional artists appearing before the public simply do not have.

    • @josephlaredo5272
      @josephlaredo5272 6 років тому +1

      I once wrote a comparative review for International Piano magazine on Brahms's op. 24 (Handel Variations) and Ax's recording came out top; and it's still the best performance I've ever heard. His Brahms Concertos are pretty good, too. That said, I don't find his reading of this piece extraordinary. It's a touch too "concert hall" for my taste. But thanks for posting.

  • @velesivents
    @velesivents 7 років тому +7

    It goes straight to the heart!!!

  • @yiyiku
    @yiyiku 13 років тому +8

    Beautiful. Everything is just do logically and musically conceived and communicated. Tempo was perfect, just the right amount of rubato for those special moments. I loved this interpretation!

    • @paul-x8i
      @paul-x8i Рік тому

      You expressed your thoughts so well! Yes I fully agree with your ideas.

  • @falldog9
    @falldog9 3 роки тому

    Sorry to say that discovered Emanuel Ax later in life. A magnificent musician and humble human being - an example to all of us musicians.

  • @SweetJoyBG
    @SweetJoyBG 9 років тому +2

    I had always loved the piano. In school you had to have the instrument at home to be picked for it, and since we didn't have one at home I was given the clarinet. I really tried,but in my heart I always wanted to learn to play the piano. I think the next instrument I would have chosen would have been the violin, but they already had a full class and again I missed out. So now all I can do is watch, enjoy and hope in my next life I will be given the opportunity to learn and play. This man is amazing and I so love his talent.

    • @mairzyd
      @mairzyd 7 років тому +1

      Please don't wait till your next life! I started taking piano lessons when I turned 65. You're never too old to do something you love!

    • @paul-x8i
      @paul-x8i 3 роки тому

      Please give yourself the opportunity to play at least a degree of piano. It’s so satisfying; I did not start taking lessons until 45 years old and I love it. I’m not real advanced, but I can play a few hymns that I absolutely love.

  • @katmandolino
    @katmandolino 11 місяців тому

    Absolutely beautiful. Thank you.

  • @watutman
    @watutman 7 років тому +4

    I just listened to a dozen different pianists play this piece. Emanuel Ax's is one of the top 4 IMHO. Also like Neuhaus', Rubinstein's and Perahia's. i searched for Richter playing it but did not find it on YT. Oh, Radu's is very good too.

  • @johncerminaro1067
    @johncerminaro1067 8 років тому +3

    Oh, dear Manny...always the artist, such lovely nuanced playing as ever I remember it and then some... Soli Deo Gloria, JC

    • @jackarcher7495
      @jackarcher7495 7 років тому

      The horn player with the Seattle Symphony for many years? I have your recording of the Mozart concertos. Thank you.

  • @IvoryEvi
    @IvoryEvi 13 років тому +1

    This is the closest to what I hear in my head when reading the score... A superb interpretation, I think! Thank you for posting and introducing me to this profoundly exceptional pianist!

  • @victorialeeable
    @victorialeeable 11 місяців тому

    I think this is how Brahms played this beautiful Intermezzo. It is the closest to my own idea of how it should be played, and yes, I’ve been playing it for many wonderful years!

  • @Justgirliethings6
    @Justgirliethings6 12 років тому

    why doesnt this have like millions of views sad society

  • @andrewmailer7689
    @andrewmailer7689 8 років тому +6

    Rob Kapilow thinks this Intermezzo reveals an inner Brahms seldom recognized. A recent segment on the PBS Newshour by Kapilow used this reading by Emanuel Ax to illustrate his discussion. I recommend it.

  • @meredith218461
    @meredith218461 4 роки тому +1

    A beautifully shaped performance.

  • @adrianacolmenares6147
    @adrianacolmenares6147 11 місяців тому

    Bravooooooooo para Adriana Teresa Carreño. Otro de sus performance. Año 97 Museo Sacro de Caracas. En un concierto de mi maestra Gabriela Bohm-Borotta. Menos mal que perfeccioné ese performance. Ese te lo vay a Regalar Emanuelito. Chao pescao contigo. Ya no te tengo en la lista de mis pianistas notables. Ese conservatorio Juan José LAndaeta como que no no no.

  • @DenianArcoleo
    @DenianArcoleo 5 років тому

    I've just realised, after many years of not understanding, what a wonderful musician he is.

  • @melanie1049
    @melanie1049 10 років тому +7

    wow, this is nice. very, very nice.

  • @mairzyd
    @mairzyd 11 років тому

    What a beautiful performance! If I could only play like this........

  • @adrianacolmenares6147
    @adrianacolmenares6147 11 місяців тому

    Hace 2 años me dieron mui Grammy. Y tres discos grabados de La CArreño Sojo. Gracias a mi BArenboim a Juan F y a Gabriela Montero. Tu tienes discos grabados Emanuel Ax??? y me firmaste tu rúbrica pero me alejaste la cara y ni me viste año 2006. Do you remember??????????????? Master

  • @paul-x8i
    @paul-x8i 3 роки тому +1

    My absolute(ly) favorite interpretation of Opus 118. Yes, the term “interpretation” is a good description of any rendering, playing, of this wonderful piece. Another term that comes to mind concerning any rendering of this piece is the term “rubato”. Also Brahms wrote a lot in
    three/whatever time, but the three/x time is so subtle here, so not in-your-face, as a waltz. I love the way Ax doesn’t rush through the connecting phrases. I hope to never hear a midi recording of this piece.

  • @antonellamajorano5348
    @antonellamajorano5348 2 роки тому

    Com è bello questo intermezzo!

  • @NathanaelSaintCyr
    @NathanaelSaintCyr Рік тому

    Love his interpretation of the B section.

  • @andrewmailer6177
    @andrewmailer6177 8 років тому +2

    Andrew Mailer 1 month ago
    Rob Kapilow thinks this Intermezzo reveals an inner Brahms seldom recognized. A recent segment on the PBS Newshour by Kapilow used this reading by Emanuel Ax to illustrate his discussion. I recommend it.

  • @yennycheung
    @yennycheung 11 років тому

    Perfect interpretation. Love it! :)

  • @ngwenyabuthoe001
    @ngwenyabuthoe001 Рік тому

    I love chamber music even if I'm in Africa

  • @The444traveler
    @The444traveler 4 роки тому

    WONDERFUL SIR!🙌

  • @charlessacchetti2967
    @charlessacchetti2967 2 роки тому

    I first heard this on a Jesse Stone movie. It is hauntingly beautiful as performed here. In the movie, an elderly lady advises Tom Selleck (Stone) to sit back and listen to Chopin in order to combat the problems he is having (a police chief with alcoholism). So, naturally, I thought this was a Chopin piece until I was set straight.

  • @junewhite6376
    @junewhite6376 Рік тому

    JUST BREATHTAKING. LOOKED FOR THIS FROM JESSIE STONE FILMS.

  • @jefolson6989
    @jefolson6989 2 роки тому

    Manny is one of the sweetest humans ever born. It comes through in his playing. Seemed a bit fast, but AX plays the tempo indicated. Brahms didn't want pianist to try to make it "sadder" which they often do. Nostalgia, bittersweet memories, autumn are in this piece- not tragedy or hopelessness. Brahms is usually more impact full when it's underplayed ( which it is if composers notations are followed).

  • @Bruce88keys
    @Bruce88keys 11 років тому +1

    Filled with a mystery of everything and then some :)

  • @evoluti0n09
    @evoluti0n09 4 роки тому

    Woo hoo! Finally, an interpretation where I don't fall asleep during the first movement.
    XD

  • @Apollon0817
    @Apollon0817 11 років тому +1

    Brahms's music has lasted for over a hundred years and will continue to do so as long as humanity survives. How long do you think Bieber's music will last?

  • @francescamembretti
    @francescamembretti 2 роки тому

    Wonderful !

  • @adrianacolmenares6147
    @adrianacolmenares6147 11 місяців тому

    Ay mi grabación no le pusieron el parlantico. Está igualita a como yo la toque?????? Por favor una explicación

  • @FirstGentleman1
    @FirstGentleman1 12 років тому +2

    How can anybody not like Brahms?

  • @irvingwood
    @irvingwood 4 роки тому +1

    Does anyone know which version of this is used in the Jesse Stone series. I first heard it there but was unhappy with the phrasing. So l went on a search and sampled dozens of versions of this wonderful piece. This version,by Ax, is the nearest to my own conception of how it should be played. Nothing is given in the credits as to whose recording is being used.

    • @joelprickett
      @joelprickett 4 роки тому

      For me it's somewhere between this and Glenn Gould (sometimes a little fast but the voicing is amazing)

  • @KampGallery
    @KampGallery 4 роки тому +1

    Er ist ein meister

  • @giangiman
    @giangiman 12 років тому

    what a great artist...

  • @Alphabunsquad
    @Alphabunsquad 8 років тому +10

    I don't get who the idiots are that direct these things. Why would anyone pick a camera angle of the underside of a piano lid during the most technically interesting, beautiful, and difficult part of a song. I want to see his hands!

    • @MrDanamp
      @MrDanamp 5 років тому

      I've often wondered the same thing. The cameraman obviously isn't a musician.

  • @dangemcgrew
    @dangemcgrew 7 років тому

    AH! So lovely

  • @gloriastuparich
    @gloriastuparich Рік тому

    Maravilloso brahms 6:04

  • @denisehowland523
    @denisehowland523 10 років тому +1

    Exquisite!

  • @johannesasfaw
    @johannesasfaw 6 років тому +2

    You should listen to Glenn Gould’s recording. It’s out of this world.

    • @hancockalex99
      @hancockalex99 6 років тому

      His greatest single recording, i think.

  • @arnemyggen
    @arnemyggen 12 років тому

    This kind of comment is as frequent as it is wrong
    Brahms and his likes have 100M++++++ views on youtube. Their music has been sold and performed for several decades more or less without any interruptions and probably will for decades to come.

  • @rezmogm
    @rezmogm 13 років тому +3

    This is more like it.

  • @russ12395
    @russ12395 13 років тому

    COOL !.....THANKS !

  • @adrianacolmenares6147
    @adrianacolmenares6147 11 місяців тому

    Menos mal que ese título de ese conservatorio es un papelucho tapa marilla. Yo tengo mis Títulos de Conservatorio de Paris y de Santa Sofia en Roma. Oh oh oh..... Y mi Royal Academy. Ya voy a ver que está pasando en ese conservatorito.

  • @bikedawg
    @bikedawg 10 років тому

    would you please fix the aspect ratio of this video?

  • @delossbrown5804
    @delossbrown5804 4 роки тому

    Danke sehr.

  • @nanigogava9057
    @nanigogava9057 10 років тому

    prekrasno

  • @mairzyd
    @mairzyd 11 років тому +1

    Nope, not too much rubato. It's perfect!

  • @gregcollins689
    @gregcollins689 4 роки тому

    I am working on the song he is playing

  • @jamieburke2793
    @jamieburke2793 5 років тому

    I really loved this. Beautiful interpretation but the small section that is like a "chorale" i thought he took too fast.

    • @meredith218461
      @meredith218461 4 роки тому +1

      This is lovely, however I suggest you listen to Radu Lupu. The latter brings a magical stillness to the ''chorale'' section you refer to.

  • @Justgirliethings6
    @Justgirliethings6 12 років тому

    amen!

  • @SuperDases
    @SuperDases 12 років тому

    Watch out! With my new hair I reminds a bit of JB! xD

  • @ellendiamond5967
    @ellendiamond5967 9 років тому

    Ax also, in my opinion, never loses himself in the music, the way Rubinstein does, if you find a really good recording. Between Rubinstein and Lupu, you'll hear Brahms the way you really, really, really wish you could play it.

    • @MARTIN201199
      @MARTIN201199 8 років тому

      ellen diamond Gieseking and Kempff are other good choices

  • @theoldar
    @theoldar 13 років тому

    @strahljd Take pride in being one of the proud few.

  • @曾鈺婷-l2d
    @曾鈺婷-l2d 5 років тому

    Bravo

  • @nkhmd
    @nkhmd 10 років тому

    Wow....wow....wow

  • @davidcontini7217
    @davidcontini7217 6 років тому

    Bravissimo

  • @tennotes
    @tennotes 11 років тому

    This is a very beautiful interpretation just like I imagine Brahms playing it. Good tempo, Sometimes maybe a bit too much ruibato. Passionate.

  • @JustinBirdMusic
    @JustinBirdMusic 6 років тому +1

    a shame about the audio quality

  • @Johnwilkinsonofficial
    @Johnwilkinsonofficial 2 роки тому

    Attorney General William Barr ladies and gentlemen

  • @keesvangulik127
    @keesvangulik127 13 років тому +1

    I forgot to breathe.

  • @adriancook7078
    @adriancook7078 3 роки тому

    I always find his playing heavy and laboured. It has ''bigness'' which the others don't have but it is always climbing uphill. Rubinstein just floats up to the heavens. And of course well done camera man.....of course we all want to see the inside of the piano and Emmanuel's face don't we children ? I mean who needs to see the hands when someone is playing the piano It makes you wonder doesn't it ? I wonder who is running the country

  • @Maestoso28
    @Maestoso28 12 років тому

    baby baby baybay, baby baby baybay justin beiber lol

  • @casper_ag86
    @casper_ag86 11 років тому

    hahaha...that's the sad reality the farther we are going from the real music...anyways, J. Bieber's music is not eternal never mind the million hits....Brahms' pieces and the like will be forever played even when comes the time that piano becomes a "touch-pad" or something...

  • @berndwang8934
    @berndwang8934 9 років тому +2

    beautiful tone quality but it didn't really sing as I have expected. I didn't hear the tension, the connections between the phrases. Did Ax intended such spacious breath and understood the intermezzo as a windless sea? Wide and broad, but not intense.

    • @MARTIN201199
      @MARTIN201199 8 років тому +1

      Bernd Wang I agree with you. It seems he is trying to explain something rather than getting submerged in the beauty of this intermezzo

  • @WinrichNaujoks
    @WinrichNaujoks 6 років тому

    This is no well played, but such a shame it's recorded in a broom cabinet, and with very bad sound quality. Did he record it elsewhere?

  • @NebkadBible
    @NebkadBible 11 років тому

    "Justin Bieber and his ilk" have one version/rendition of their songs.
    Johannes Brahms and others have MANY interpretations of their works. So, to get a proper count of views you need to add all the views of all the interpretations.
    So, yes THIS particular interpretations has less views than Justin's.

  • @yiyiku
    @yiyiku 13 років тому

    Hmm. I see three months ago I liked this.now it seems a bit too fast and angry for me. My favorite version now is Roberto Plano

  • @ChristopherFulkersonPhD
    @ChristopherFulkersonPhD 13 років тому

    You hate this world? I wouldn't persuade otherwise. But while Bieber, whoever he is, apparently gets many hits giving you a picture of a fish, that you can't eat, this man is telling you volumes of profound teachings about how to fish. Magical teachings. Now if he would just play Mozart trills from the upper note downwards (the nachschlag is the "up"). Listening, Mr. Ax? Schenker (not the only Eumaeus of music) says trills are dissonances, not embellishments. All expression is in the dissonance!

  • @strahljd
    @strahljd 13 років тому

    So this has 4,800 hits while Justin Bieber and his ilk get 100+ million. I hate this world.

  • @ellendiamond5967
    @ellendiamond5967 9 років тому +2

    As wonderful as this is and teaches me so much, Ax loses Brahms and he loses my interest. There's no connecting one-ness, just a series of beautifully executed phrases. To hear what I'm talking about, listen to Radu Lupu. He plays and Brahms enters the room.

    • @davidmartin9565
      @davidmartin9565 8 років тому

      +ellen diamond Wow... I was listening to this after hearing Jean-Yves Thibaudeau play that as an encore in our concert tonight. I found nothing wanting in either interpretation....(my firs time hearing the piece). I guess I'll have to check out Radu Lupu.

    • @albertomartin4812
      @albertomartin4812 7 років тому

      I don't agree, I think he actually connects phrases with a deep understanding of the score. Have you ever played the piece? I've being doing it for years, and I find this interpretation more satisfaying than Lupu's (which I think is fantastic, don't get me wrong). I use to think it was the best, but not anymore after studying the piece myself.

    • @ColinHarvey78
      @ColinHarvey78 6 років тому

      Emmanuel Ax is one of the finest interpreters of Brahms in the past half century. Perhaps it was the rather abrupt way the video was edited at the end which informed your view?

    • @plumb.474
      @plumb.474 6 років тому

      David Martin well said...try Arthur Jussen's interpret. - he's 13 at the time of recording...but has the emotional depth of an old soul...

    • @plumb.474
      @plumb.474 6 років тому

      Alberto Martín have you listened to Arthur Jussen?

  • @turidemarcodeeustachijs3926
    @turidemarcodeeustachijs3926 5 років тому

    E' ben eseguito. Ma non trovo "pensiero" e non provo emozioni! Non è il Brahms che mi piace, no!

  • @adrianacolmenares6147
    @adrianacolmenares6147 11 місяців тому

    Quien hace estas cosas. No entiendo. Son tecnógratas o qué??????? Esto es para hacer daño a los músicos ni siquiera es para el público. Quién se cree este cuento????

  • @wallyballach9672
    @wallyballach9672 5 років тому

    The beginning is beautifully cadenced and played, but unfortunately, for my taste, he rushes the segue which diminishes it's emotional impact and throws the whole piece off.

  • @GlynGlynn
    @GlynGlynn 10 років тому +3

    A little too fast to bring out the dreamy aspect of this piece. It is a little too factual.

    • @albertomartin4812
      @albertomartin4812 7 років тому +1

      I don't think so, maybe in just some moments, but I think it's perfectly fine. Remember it's an andante.

    • @GlynGlynn
      @GlynGlynn 7 років тому

      That would be fine if he played at an andante speed, but it is more like Andantino.

    • @albertomartin4812
      @albertomartin4812 7 років тому +2

      I think the general idea of the different tempi slowed down during the 20th century. Just a guess, but anyway I think his speed is fine. xD

    • @MJLeger-yj1ww
      @MJLeger-yj1ww 7 років тому +4

      I agree. I hate it too fast and even worse if it's too slow. This is a perfect tempo. Beautifully played! One of the very best out of many renditions I've heard of this song.Thank you for posting!

    • @Awesome-oh7op
      @Awesome-oh7op 7 років тому +2

      M.J. Leger YES! I agree perfect rempo!!!

  • @adriancook7078
    @adriancook7078 6 років тому

    Boring! loud soft loud soft but where is the texture ? the tone ? the human voice ? bangers all of them...........except...........(wait for it) rubinstein.