Brahms Piano Quintet in Fm, 4th mvmt

[Altoclef123]

Listen to that C string on his cello. It goes all the way down to your toes!!

[Altoclef123]

Garry Hoffmann......most amazing cellist living!



[tlcooper93]

Boy, usually live is not quite at good as recorded, but this is simply flawless and human at the same time.

[kims0730]

Beautiful. My jaw is refusing to close....

[ferociousgumby]

Jesus. Almost past bearing. L'angoisse. . .

[samdajellybeenie14]

Thumbs up if the cellist looks like Charlie from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.

[tahileki]

It's some of the most magnificent, disturbing and terrifying music ever written. Like a wounded soul in final despair, like in Schubert's Winterreise and Musorgsky's Boris Godunov. Brahms is a mega-genius, and he was incredibly brave to write it.

[FlyHigh1987]

Wonderful as the piece is--and my goodness! it IS wonderful--the finale crowns the whole. In all of Brahms, I cannot think of such a proof of genius--the way this composer transforms his opening theme--again and again! How wonderful this piano quintet is! What would we do without it!

[cmonclair27]

When the main theme is re-taken, I just love Davig Golub's slight delay at 4:33 in his statement to which the srtings answer in agreement. This is great stuff! Brahm's version for two pianos is also exellent.

[TheMexicoFilmMaker]

I have been listing to classical music for 30 years and have always been a big fan of Brahms but only recently discovered this quintet here on You Tube. Absolutely awesome and intense piece of music with pure Brahms complexity .. and awesome execution in this recording. Fantastic gem.

[catherine9924]

Much much better than Po. . . . 's team. Brilliant and exciting!

[cedricrlongreen]

WOW! INTENSE!!

[Leba284]

Fabuloso.

[spicyapplecake]

I love the obvious enjoyment and rapport of these outstanding musicians. Remarkable if as someone said they don't usually play together. I'm a great fan of Gary Hoffman but would have liked to see more of the viola as well - he missed out a bit, presumably because of the camera angle.

[SaraMorinne]

grazie, Chandler

[bagdad4]

i wish i had been the page turner...absolute genius!

[operastud82]

This is hands down the greatest performance of this quintet...are the first and second movement (and the beginning of the third) really not available!? It looks professionally taped...it must be somewhere!!

[MrBrain4]

Very minor note about the posting itself... the stereo audio seems to be reversed: The instrumentalists on the left are heard on the right and vice versa. The performance itself is excellent, as is of course the piece.

[alvarobitran]

Fantástico!

I'd love to see more of Gary Hoffman on Youtube.

[jacopoboumboum]

ébouriffant!!

[kreutzo1]

Absolutely brillant!

[endriboli]

On of the BEST Recordings of the Brahms Quintet in F minor.

[violin957]

if only they were an actual quintent back in the day... they would have had some remarkable works.

[guille1414]

what´s the quintet´s name, please. It´s great. If Brahms was returning of the tomb he would shout of emotion.

[dnephi]

Piano Quintet in F minor... ? Op. 34, if you'd like to know.

[guille1414]

please the name of the group that played these Brahms´s composition

[dnephi]

Oh, sorry. Unfortunately, they are a group of soloists, not a regular quintet. They do work marvelously together. The best I've heard.

[DevilViolinist]

Neubauer's playing the viola like a violin....

[Chromometron]

It is always played like that.

[DevilViolinist]

No, he's using a weaker violin bow hold which doesn't produce the sound that a viola needs, especially in this piece

[Chromometron]

Ah, I just thought you were thinking that the viola was played like a cello.

[DevilViolinist]

hmmwha?

[bagdad4]

@DevilViolinist i know nothing about violins or violas but im pretty sure Neubauer knows what hes doing :-)

[DevilViolinist]

@bagdad4 It's very confusing to look at him, because he looks like he's using a violin technique to play viola, and usually some violinists pick up the viola occasionally for chamber ensembles and don't usually learn the true viola technique. But I read that he specializes in viola, so he's obviously had the correct training : P

[bictoya]

That was slightly insane.

[lolmanerik]

best recording of this piece ever. wish first and second movements were there also...

[tsokokos]

aaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[orannisthedestroyer]

holy shit.

[regionalmathematics]

dude, you must be like 100+ years old or something

[sibelius27]

Very emotional. Superb. I believe musicians today play better together now than back in the earlier part of the 20th C. Recordings show that then they were huge soloists in attitude and playing together wasn't an important criterion. Casals/Cortot/Thibaud trio is a good example. The unison portamento was interesting and worked. It was the style 80 years ago for a whole orchestral string section to do that together. So it may well have been performance practice in Brahms day. Thank you

[regionalmathematics]

huh?

[maurice0773]

Fantastico

[DrakeGrad]

Gary Hoffman is my cousin. He is superb Musician

[allopez390]

@DrakeGrad Your cousin is playing Bruch's Kol Nidrei and Saint Saens concerto with my Orquesta Sinfonica de Venezuela in a couple of days. What a privilige it is to have him around here!

[mrami9994]

what would we do without Brahms and musicians like this........absolutely wonderful!!!!!

[sweatinggrundle]

4.23-4.25 transition to recapitulation, love it.

[MusicViolin92]

There are no words for it! Absolutely fantastic.

[pacpucu]

p...c,no words...AMAZING!

[Pantheresrose]

100% agree that Pinky stimulates everyone to surpass themselves although they are outstanding in there own rights,for me it is a bit like the musicians who played with Heifetz for sure there were all stimulated as well!

[djangosteph]

I think Pinky stimulates everyone to surpass themselves here. The playing has a great pulse can can only be found in a live performance...Also, I never realized what a great pianist David Golub was!

[Pantheresrose]

100% agree that Pinky stimulates everyone to surpass themselves although they are outstanding in there own rights,it is a bit like the musicians who played with Heifetz for sure there were all stimulated as well.

[lolmanerik]

8:30 - 8:34 Zukerman WOOOOOOOW

[altini1117]

paul neubauer nr.1 from all viola players

[taiwan886]

this is too good....thanks for posting this! Paul Neubauer =damn good

[VisuDievs]

And don't forget about Gary Hoffman!He is one of the best persons I ever met.I am very thankfully to him about everything,I really would like that he knows this...that

he is is great cellist and person!

And I love him about that!

[MrFullService]

This isn't Ani Kavafian playing the second violin part, rather her sister Ida.