Love how much care you put into the little details here- I've sometimes found performances of this work to be a little unclear (sometimes technically but especially in mood), but the piece comes through really clearly and enjoyably in your interpretation!
This sweet, late piano miniature from Brahms is certainly a masterpiece! Listening to your exquisite performance, Cole, it's clear that this Intermezzo makes clever use of rhythmic ambiguity in its very concentrated thematic structure (and how inspired the way Brahms adds dissonant harmonies at the points where resolutions might have been expected!). I've read that Brahms wrote the Op 119 pieces in 1893 while on his summer holidays in the Austrian spa town of Bad Ischl. He was aged 60 . . . sadly with only four more years to live, but I see this 'Dance of Life' as a paean to eternal youth! As ever, your commentary was most illuminating . . . and as ever, this piano music is really best realised with a virtuoso technique, which you have in abundance (through lots of hard work, of course!): B R A V O !
Extremely enjoyable, well done! Creating musical 'humor' can be such a subtle thing; I find myself inspired by your take.
beautiful piece thankyou
Love how much care you put into the little details here- I've sometimes found performances of this work to be a little unclear (sometimes technically but especially in mood), but the piece comes through really clearly and enjoyably in your interpretation!
enchanting. thank you.
This sweet, late piano miniature from Brahms is certainly a masterpiece! Listening to your exquisite performance, Cole, it's clear that this Intermezzo makes clever use of rhythmic ambiguity in its very concentrated thematic structure (and how inspired the way Brahms adds dissonant harmonies at the points where resolutions might have been expected!). I've read that Brahms wrote the Op 119 pieces in 1893 while on his summer holidays in the Austrian spa town of Bad Ischl. He was aged 60 . . . sadly with only four more years to live, but I see this 'Dance of Life' as a paean to eternal youth! As ever, your commentary was most illuminating . . . and as ever, this piano music is really best realised with a virtuoso technique, which you have in abundance (through lots of hard work, of course!): B R A V O !