Brahms Symphony No. 1 in C Minor - I. Un poco sostenuto Allegro (Part 1) --- KARAJAN

[MrTingtingting]

Nodame Cantabile introduces me to some of the best classical music ever.

[michaelheintz1833]

POWERFUL !!!!!!!!

[whatthefreakkkk]

what the heck? beethoven?

[stemocro]

saw it live friday. all i could say was yes.

[npa589]

A couple more interesting notes that you won't hear discussed too often. IMO, this is not a tribute to Beethoven as much as it is to Schumann. Listen to Schumann's first symphony!

[Agomongo1235]

@npa589 i agree it sounds like his symphony no 3

[npa589]

@lolalola30 --- I haven't responded to a comment in a while, but lola --- thank you! I'm glad someone understood.



[jokkergar]

I love the mozart picture in the opening :D

[vitumasup]

@jokkergar WTF?! it's Beethoven not mozart your jackass

[iwavns]

What about this? 0:19

[octavine]

How come the opening pictures were Beethoven? And you're listening a Brahms piece? Weird...

[akagi2002]

@octavine Anyone who knows about the story of Brahms' first symphony can realize why." Ich werde nie eine Symphonie komponieren! Du hast keinen Begriff davon, wie es unsereinem zu Mute ist, wenn er immer einen Riesen hinter sich marschieren hört! "-----Johannes Brahms, letter to Hermann Levi

[octavine]

@akagi2002 Thank you for the enlightenment... I'm starting to have an interest is studying Brahms' life and works more eager.

[akagi2002]

@octavine I wish you'll have fun. I'm sure, the more you know about him, the more you 'll love his music.

[WrestlingHeretic]

@octavine

Not weird at all. This piece is often called "Beethoven's 10th." Brahms waited so long to write this because of his own feelings of inadequacy and intense scrutiny in the shadow of Beethoven.

[Denabobina1]

Agonizingly beautiful, this movement. I love the joyful, Gb major eruption near the end of the development...so intensely full of emotion, how can one not feel the heart breaking?

And how can one cut off the piece just after said joyful eruption? (Oh, well, must be YouTube's time limit per clip.)

[LIDYAJA]

BECAUSE-Porque se dice la primera de Brahms es la continuación de la novena de Beethoven.

Brahms admiraba a Beethoven.

[Tobbe999999999999999]

why exactly beethoveen??



[uetzel]

0:20 skip the forplay

[desdemona19181]

@lolalola30 14 years!

[OrangeSodaKing]

@desdemona19181 Maybe that's a good thing he waited so long though, because he had time to mature and produce this powerful masterpiece as his first symphony! I think he originally wanted the D minor piano concerto to be a symphony. I'm so happy it's a concerto, though. ;)

[maalaea]

i'm not trying to be an ass, but does it sound like beethoven to anyone else?

[DragonmasterNOR]

@maalaea The reason why it might sound like Beethoven is because Brahms respect for Beethoven was enormous. You could say Beethoven was his idol so to speak. This went for most of the composers of the New German style like Schumann, Schubert, Liszt, Händel and so on.

Beethoven composed pieces that would have an impact on music as far as a hundred years forward after his time :)

[imperiumdiaboli]

@maalaea To which Brahms would've replied, "Any ass can see that!" (True Story)

[maalaea]

@imperiumdiaboli You're dumbshit troll or maybe a dwarf.

[imperiumdiaboli]

@maalaea Why don't you go do some reading on Brahms, and we'll see who the dumbshit is.

[maalaea]

@imperiumdiaboli Uh oh, we've entered dumbshit bombing alley.

[imperiumdiaboli]

@maalaea Here's a hint in case you didn't get it: You're the dumbshit here, but you're too ignorant to understand why.

[maalaea]

@imperiumdiaboli In our time apart, I consulted a prominent dumbshittologist about you. Well, I have bad news for you. He said, yep, you are a bonafide and pure dumbshit. No matter how much Brahms for Beethoven you listen to know. Basically, you got hit by the dumbshit stick at birth.

[imperiumdiaboli]

@maalaea Irony is lost on you.

[maalaea]

i've always loved this symphony since my college days hearing the smu symphony orchestra perform it

[pazumo]

Fuckyeah! I can't find another expression! AEHUHEUHaehuHHaeu

[firestartertwistedfi]

I would have loved to go up to Brahms after this was performed and said 'Pretty good effort, but not quite up to Beethoven's standard!'

[arlongan]

How come I saw Beethoven at the beginning?

[counterpoint35]

@arlongan Brahms felt that he was composing a symphony largely in the foot steps of Beethoven (in fact, due to shared theme in the finale of Brahms's 1st and Beethoven's 9th, audiences soon refered to Brahms's Symphony as Beethoven's 10th).

[desdemona19181]

@counterpoint35 to an extent. by introducing vocal aspects in the last movement which succumb to intesne motific manipulation, essentially allowing instrumental music to "triumph" Brahms was directly confronting the wagnerian theory that gestkunstwerk, the 'universal drama' was the only logical progression out of the realms of instrumental music, as beethoven had exhausted has supposedly exhausted all possible means of artistic expression through the realms of instrumental music. yay for youtube

[counterpoint35]

Am I the only one who thinks it sounds like the horrid return of a much feared foe?

[peachmelba16]

I really like how the introduction comes back hauntingly at 7:50... a quieter but nonetheless ominous feel to it . I teach music and I know that there is a huge lack of musical exposure in schools today. One example is when I asked one of the students if he knew of Brahms and he said" "Oh yeah..the Brahms Zoo!"

[peachmelba16]

I really like how the introduction comes back hauntingly at 7:50... a quieter but nonetheless ominous feel to it .

[peachmelba16]

Greatness. The introduction grips like a fist.

[Matteo7419]

@tueku Hans von Bülow sayed this just meaning that Brahms was the heir of the great symphonic tradition Beethoven left.

[kcpenner]

I used to "conduct" this symphony as a child with one of my mother's knitting needles! Some years later I remember listening to it while traveling in one of the northern states. Golden light from the setting sun illuminated the rolling green hills ... the music seemed to go so well with the scenery ...

[divine604]

epic opening

[Hattakiri]

"You cannot imagin what it is like to hear the footsteps of a giant behind you..." Quote Johannes Brahms about Beethoven...

[JoshuaAdamWeinberg]

2:31 till 3:01 is my favorite part of the whole symphony. UGH just bone chilling oboe solo and fuge!

[evalcy]

lol I tot there's smth wrong wif the clip...

[milescowan]

That time is spent showing Beethoven and his grave. This symphony (Brahms 1) is sometimes referred to as Beethoven's 10th symphony (although Brahms himself seems to have been less than pleased with that tag). I leave it to you to Google around to discover where the idea came from.

[cubsrule2040]

@milescowan actually Beethoven did sketch a 10th symphony but only the 1st movement was completed.

[Nakiki18]

I love how you made his face pop up there the second the piece started... startled me a little lol

But this is a beautiful piece, it is DEFINENTLY one of my favorites <3

[hollowfang]

Brahms...you can feel his pain seemed into every note of this song.

[csguido]

One of the greatest simphonies under the great conductor Von Karajan. It reminds me of a movie with Maximilan Schell and Charlo Heston

[cl427x]

the ending of a legend... the making of a legend...

[AnthonyBlunt]

Brahms is not shy about getting to the point! What an awesome opening. He is masterful.