The out-of-tuneness makes this recording so intimate, this is a recording I want to come back to listen over and over - will never get old! Thanks for uploading!
This is the kind of interpretation that makes me remember why in the world I'm a musician. Pure music, no hidden agenda, no other interest than just playing the piano...Великий Нейгауз!!!
Does anyone know what pianos the pianists play on? I'm assuming Steinway (since it seems to be the most commonly used in the concert hall) but it would still be nice to know...
@allstar8000: I do have perfect pitch as well, or pretty close to it, and I've recently been playing this piece a bunch of times lately on my own (its even more moving to play than listen for some reason), and I think the problem is not what key he's in. Instead, I think the piano he's playing on is just slightly out of tune. I noticed it as well; but then I could definitely hear the D and A chords in the beginning, so it was still in the original key.
@DathronSpam83 Yeah, I listened to this and another version back to back and this one seems like its almost a semitone(tone? semitone? no idea) off or something
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How come everybody likes this piece? The main theme= Oh my Gaaaawsh, O M Geeeee. The B section is pretty good though. That first theme will always bother me though; it sounds so fluffily lame. Brahms must've had on his tutu when he came up with that theme.
@fledgehog Yeah I'm having a hard time understanding all that sophisticated harmony and deep, deep, sentiment that is somewhere in Brahm's beard.....I think you're suffering from fluffitis; it's a condition where you're emotionally moved by cheesy music.
Good heavens this piece is beautiful!!!!!! I am quite puzzled as to why Wagner consistently comes out ahead of Brahms on lists of the "Best Western "Classical" composers ever." To my mind, Brahms had a much wider scope of composition, and i would MUCH rather listen to the Deutches Requiem than the screechy old Ring Cycle any day.
He was the greatest teacher of all times. I'm not keen on the quality of the recording but his musical interpretation is excellent. That reserved passion that we all love about Brahms really comes out in this piece.
@allstar8000 Your perfect pitch is not acting up in this case: the pitch seems to be about an eighth of a tone sharp in this old recording. I guess it got sped up somewhere along the line!! // By the way, do you associate colors or emotions with various pitches, as some with perfect pitch do?
@HolyMotherofGrid Thanks! And no, not emotions or colours, but I hear notes in my head. As in, I hear "do re mi", which is annoying because I can't use a moveable "do".
@HolyMotherofGrid Also, I can't have even instrumental background music when I'm working, because hearing the notes is like having someone sing in solfege! I hear some instruments better than others; I am best with piano, and usually get that right. Still, I have a tendency to be off by a semitone. I have better luck with top note melodies than harmony. I struggle with low notes (think bass guitar and timpani). So I have rather impaired perfect pitch! How about you?
@allstar8000 Fascinating... partial perfect pitch!! Thanks for sharing: one learns something every day, but when folks share freely, this becomes easier. // For myself, i have very good "relative pitch". In choirs, i am often counted upon to keep others in my section on pitch. I can usually guess within a half tone what a pitch is, by comparing it to how it "feels" relative to my vocal ability to produce it. I do this in my head somehow so i am not sub-vocalizing.
@HolyMotherofGrid Same here, I have really good relative pitch. As a pianist, there are some notes I just hear so often that I can easily pick them out if they're played on a piano.
I am falling in love with this man's highly musical and sensitive playing, and his versions of great piano compositions often turn out to be my favorites; this Brahms is no exception. He joins Dinu Lipatti, Alfred Cortot, Artur Schnabel, Benno Moiseiwitsch and a few others in my affections who were great musicians as well as great pianists.
This is just beautiful. I feel that the climax could be more passionate and a little slower, to give it a bit of grandeur... But other than that I am in love
Anyway thank you for the post. Id really like to get a good recording of this and see if I could digitally correct the tuning of the piano cause by the age of the recording. I cant imagine what this sounded like when it was first recorded if this is this good with aged technology wow I wish I could have been in the studio that day!!
I dont know what it is about this piece (well I guess I do) but the way this guy plays it it crushes me everytime I hear it. Im a composer myself, not classical but studied music in college and theres something about Brahms that just speaks to me and Heinrich plays this piece how is suppose to be played. Infact what Ive noticed about Brahms is alot of artist play his works but dont really know how to interpret it that well but thats just my opinion.
oh, yes i agree with you franzleone. this is an extraordinary rendering. i cherish it, and i keep returning to it. such eloquence, without self-indulgence and nothing maudlin, very honest, passionate, yet restrained. so CLEAR, so in rhythm with natural breathing and feeling.
This is the most gorgeous rendering of the exquisite Brahms Intermezzo Op. 118, #2. Genuine, heartfelt, and beautiful from start to finish. Such a pity these recordings are out of print.
i always come back to you, always interested in how you will handle the fabric of any piece, and I am always happy i did. Heinrich Neuhaus SINGS. to my ears and soul he always leads with the clear bell-like voice, sure and secure, never turgid, but never superficial. if i want to understand the structure and intention of the composer, i turn always first to this pianist.
neuhaus always has this lighthearted personality that is very evident straight to his playing. makes us feel good and make us think everything is fine listening to him.
I think he is playing too vividly. The piece is so fragile. My favourite is Elisabeth Leonskaja. She played it 2006 in Hamburg after Rach 2 and hit the right tune.
I agree one hundred percent. Telling a pianist how to play is like telling a painter what to paint. Completely ridiculous. Music comes from the heart and soul; no "right" or "wrong" way.
Avoid practicing with a metronome at all costs. The most important thing, I think, is to play with the type of rhythmic freedom that Neuhaus so masterfully displays in this recording.
I'm not sure I agree with magdluke's suggestion to avoid the metronome at all costs. I think the metronome plays an important part in the initial learning of a piece. Once you have the proper rhythm figured out, then turn off the metronome and bring it to life. Without a solid foundation to work from, it might not turn out as well. Claude Debussy, who is known for his romantic and expressive pieces, insisted that his students use the metronome. Just my thoughts anyway...
True that, you should be able to play a whole piece with absolutely no changes in tempo, if you cant you should pick up a metronome and gain that ability.
@MShepherd88 I don't care what anyone else says, you are completely right. Unless you can count every measure to your self, you should be using the metronome. Do that with the metronome until you learn the proper rhythm, and then you base the tempo changes based on the phrasing of the piece. Just my 2 cents...
If you listen closely to the way the great musicians play it, you will hear that the intensity or volume created by each hand differs. the right hand mostly produces most volume but in this song it switches a few times. especcialy when the second theme comes in. this all is more audible in other recordings. try to use this effect to improve your playing
you omitted one of his greatest students - Anatoly Vedernikov (a far more interesting musician than Radu Lupu in my book), a pianist unlike any other. Andre and myself have uploaded many of his performances, including this piece which I forgot to post as a response to this video but you can find it on my channel. it's absolutely splendid
This was a revelation to me. Thank you. To me it seems like true Brahms playing coming out of what I would imagine is a real tradition. Why the piano is so out of tune puzzles me but the musicality is humbling.
the sections at the 1:29 and 4:45 mark always breaks me in half. to be able to musically make some indescribable pang of nostalgia that can't be verbalized, and is so subtle in its crushing devastation, is a characteristic of people that are not of this Earth... even if they did walk upon it briefly.
This performance is so beautiful it's almost unimaginable! I listened to other interpretations on Youtube but this performance displays mastery and maturity and knowledge of the musical line. Pure sentiment without the gushy sentimentality. A performance to learn from!
I will gladly remove this video as soon as you will post a better one... until then let me decide whether to keep it or not. BTW you don't have to listen if this performance irritates your aural sensitivity. Seems like you're more interested in "Sex, Skydiving, REAL martial arts of Japan (bona fide koryu)". Please stick with those.
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What makes you think I'm more interested in Sex, Skydiving, REAL martial arts of Japan (bona fide koryu)???
Did you get all wound-up at my comments and decide to launch a character assassination based on what's written on my channel?
Well, get this: I will 'stick with' whatever I choose to stick with and I'll leave rational, intelligent, honest comments wherever I see fit. If you don't like that, then that's your misfortune. Not mine.
I reiterate: this video is out of tune and so it sucks.
2. You have no idea about problems with sound distortion and compression while dealing with old recordings and YT uploads. As such - let me reiterate - your comments are rude, uneducated and have nothing to do with intelligence and honesty.
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truecrypt,
1. The interests listed on my YT profile are SOME of my interests.
2. Saying "your comments are rude, uneducated and have nothing to do with intelligence and honesty" was NOT a reiteration, as you didn't say that in your initial reply to me.
1. I assume you listed your *main* interests in your profile. Of course Brahms and Neuhaus make your interests more diversified but less logical.
2. You probably didn't understand what I said in my first comment. May be I was too polite... but the idea was that you are rude and uneducated person. I *reiterated* the same in my second reply in rather plain form, so you would understand it clearly.
1. Whatever you choose to list as your main or secondary interests - is all up to you. I mentioned your interests because they have nothing in common with classical music.
2. You didn't understand it. Sometimes a phrase like "good tie" can mean "what a moron".
3. You are rude and ill-mannered at least. The degree of ignorance probably can be disputed but not the fact by itself. Let's see what other people think about our "exchange".
*I* appreciate your posting this wonderful historic recording. I suspect that most people who listened to this appreciate it as well.
There is a wealth of old recordings from when the available technology resulted in crackles and pops in the audio. Some of the most imaginative performances are preserved in this format. This is a prime example among countless others from Cortot to Hofmann.
Until today I was unaware that *Heinrich* Neuhaus had made recordings.
Thank you truecrypt for all of the videos you have posted. Some of them were a tremendous help and education to myself. I couldn't even fathom what it would feel like though to have to put up with all the sententious people who think subjectivity is fact. But please please please keep doing what you're doing.
I will agree that the video is piss-poor as far as tuning, but to a pianist this is pure GOLD!
Though the tuning has suffered because of the age of the recording, we are still able to hear what the pianist does with his phrasing, dynamics, expression, and show of emotions. It's beautiful if you can see past the notes... Notes and pitches are merely exoskeletons in music.
So I can't agree on the part where you said it 'sucks'. lol
But honestly! If I told my professor I wouldn't listen to a recording of a great artist because the recording is old, I'm sure I would be removed from my department. Also, if the majority of comments here says the video is good, and you think its bad for something as noticeable as the quality of the recording, shouldn't that tell you something? So keep your damn mouth shut. Anyone can type pretty words with a spell check. But your remarks show you don't know a thing about this.
drawingnotes, I will most certainly not keep my 'damn' mouth shut. I will say as I please and that which I please will always be honest and sensible.
The fact remains, my dear deluded chap, that this recording is horribly out-of-tune and so it matters not one wit how supposedly brilliant Neuhaus' interpretation is of Brahms' music because the audio rendition of said interpretation is of woeful quality and thus renders any listening experience an unfortunate assault on the ears.
I guess you are a connoisseur of good quality - to replicate a situation to be most vivid. However, dear BUDDAY, I am a connoisseur of music. So have fun being limited to less than half a century. I'll continue to grow my mind past that.
drawingnotes, when you say you are a connoisseur of music, are you referring to music throughout history? If so, which particular eras of musical history are more to your delectation? Renaissance? Early, Mid or Late Baroque, perhaps? Or are you a classical enthusiast? If so, do you prefer works by early classicists such as J.C. Bach and Stamitz or are you more sympathetic toward the latter Gallant style of late Haydn and Mozart?
Then again, drawingnotes, maybe you opt for Early Romanticism (such as was ushered-in by Beethoven during the opening bars of his Symphony No.3 in E-flat Major, Opus 55, and originally intended to be dedicated to Napoleon Bonaparte).
Of course, you may well be a mid-Romantic bu8ff, seeing as you like the music of Herr Brahms (who described himself as a 'classical romanticist').
No doubt, drawingnotes, you also appreciate some of the late Romantic works by composers such as Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov and Mahler, whose works owe much to the likes of Mendelssohn, Berlioz and Wagner insofar as their vivid depiction of tragedy and the grotesque is concerned.
Personally, drawingnotes, my interest falls short of the impressionism that followed and the avant-garde, minimalistic and a-tonal-istic evolution of music since the late Romantic period.
My preference is for Early Romantic works by Weber, Mendelssohn and Wagner, mid to late Baroque by composers such as J.S.Bach, S.L.Weiss and F. von Biber, and the Symphonies of Brahms.
I have hundreds of CDs, mostly on period instruments (I love gut strings and natural horns) and they're all WELL RECORDED.
I am pretty impressed to see this. You either done some extensive research (which i hope you didn't) or you really know what you like.
If these are questions that you really want an answer to, I'll answer them for you. Each era of classical music is highlighted for a style of composition. Baroque - Counterpoint. Gallant--> Classicism - to appeal to the common man. Romanticism - To reflect emotion. etc. Needless to say that each genre is not limited to things only. (cont.)
But what I truly love are the composers who pushed ahead of their time! Scarlatti, who did not limit himself to the rules of composition and wrote the most amazing keyboard works I've heard. Beethoven who pushed classicism to romanticism. Liszt who pushed Romanticism to Impressionism. But the point I wanted to make to you was, was not of good composers but of good performers. (cont.)
Yes, quality says a lot to a listener, but I will take an early Horowitz recording over a Lang Lang recording until the day I die, and there's a reason for that. Horowitz was an artist, he took a piece a hundred years old and made it something new. How piano performance evolved, it is now only the demand to replicate - To follow your henle publication as most accurately as you can. At least Horowitz stretched my mind, made me think, I dont care if the recording is scratchy. :)
No, drawingnotes. I didn't do research in order to sound as if I knew about the difference between a Pisendel violin sonata and a Poulenc valse. One of the age-old deductions by people who are attempting to win a debate on You Tube is to suggest anyone who disagrees with them is simply using Wikipedia in between posts.
Anyway, I'll stick to what I have been saying all along. If the recording is rubbish, the sound is rubbish. This recording of Neuhaus is out of tune and is, therefore, rubbish.
drawingnotes, I have a recording of Rachmaninov playing his truncated versions of his second and third piano concertos. I also have Pablo Casals' recordings of Bach's unaccompanied 'cello sonatas. In both cases, the recording quality is poor insofar as the limited spaciousness afforded my mono recording. However, these recording are not out of tune. They are simply mono and 'wooden'.
I'd far rather listen to an in-tune stereo recording by a decent pianist or 'cellist of today.
they're not my 'losses', drawingnotes, any more than your apparent inability to prefer modern interpretations recorded in stereo and played in tune are your 'losses'. They're preferences and they're also in line with the widely held view (although that doesn't necessarily make it a correct view) that improvements have been made in both recording quality and performance practice, which we call 'progress'.
I used to hold to the view that 'older' meant 'better'. Not any more, though.
oh no dear sir, I listen to both old and new. I also don't immediately dismiss something wonderful with crude remarks for a faulty recording, because the man is great. Again and again, if you don't understand why this is good, that's fine. But for the most part, a lot of people seem to be enjoying this, not my fault you can't get why. But the dry cynicism is offensive, not honest or sensible at all. Performance progress? tell that to Liszt.
Sorry this is a year past due, but I was so upset after reading this comment. If we dismissed every pianist who had an older recording, I feel like we would miss out on some of the most invaluable musical performances. I'm not sure what you're instigating with "even if", but don't forget that this man taught Richter and Giles. I'm sure it would be interesting to put Neuhaus and sLApuPChriSt in the same room to talk about musical interpretation.
I've learned most of my piano playing from Neuhaus' book. And my favorite piece to play was Brahms 118.2. But I've never dreamed of hearing Neuhaus play this.
You've made it possible, truecrypt. Thank you so much!
Waht a sound! wonderful sound in the first part, i'll dream of a sonority a bit different in the middle-minor section( listen for instance Lupu's performance)but apart from these absurd considerations; a wonderful, magnificent sound and interpretation! thank'you!
Neuhaus learned not only from Godowsky... He spent most of his life in Moscow Conservatory and became a symbol of Russian/Soviet piano school. The subject is more complicated than "Russian trained" or "German trained" ;)
yes this is one of the BEST pieces ever composed!!! one especially enjoy it if there is a memory attached to the meaning and expression of this intermezzo. God bless Brahms indeed!!!! good job!!!
Also, musicwriter83, I am amazed that someone who considers himself to be a composer of serious music is bothering to debate on You Tube!!! Seriously, do you realise how petty you seem to anyone with moderate intelligence? You use obscenities to add weight to your arguments and opinions as if you were a spoiled child. Go back to your no-doubt second-rate composition and grow up.
musicwriter83, you say "It is MY musical opinion that Bach's music is riddled with way too much counterpoint and loses its charm quickly, which is completely true". So, first you say it is your 'opinion' and then you state that it is 'completely true'. You clearly are a self-opinionated individual who strives to validate his assertions by means of thinly-veiled statements of 'fact'. If you don't like Bach's music, that is a matter of personal taste.
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How about I stab both your eyes out of your head. When you write something better, then you can have an opinion. Don't type like you're smarter than I am. It will not work, plus I will stab your eyes out of your fucking head.
musicwriter83, you are one sick individual. But, attempting to debate with me by using spiteful and coarse language sounds very familiar to me. Have a look I say on my channel. mikelevens strikes again...
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Let me simplify this for everyone reading this: Truecrypt commented on a piece I wrote by saying it has '2-3 harmonies and a couple sequences'(that is an exact quote). I have asked him roughly ten times to explain the two or three 'harmonies' he decided my piece has. [[By the way, you don't say a piece of music has 'harmonies'! If you only knew how ridiculous that sounds!]] Everytime I simply ask him, he evades the ? by commenting on how absurd my composition is.
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This is another example of someone who truly loves music and wants so badly to be a famous musician but has no real musical knowledge or talent. So he goes on Youtube and dresses himself up in pretentious musical clothing in an attempt to force his musical authority when CLEARLY he has no formal eduation, and when he sees a video of someone playing who is more musically talented, he shits a rage of envy. YOU INSULTED MY PIECE FOR NO REASON, AND I DEMAND EITHER AN EXPLANATION OR AN APOLOGY!
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Don't tell me my comments are idiotic. It is MY musical opinion that Bach's music is riddled with way too much counterpoint and loses its charm quickly, which is completely true. Your snotty little ass wants to think you're smarter than everyone else. You are not smarter than me in music, I guarantee it!
Well... I still think your comment(s) are idiotic and the last one clearly speaks for itself. At the end of your video you made an annotation: "then I smile as a dork"... Of course you are the smartest one in music! ;)
Divino Brahms... musica struggente, malinconica.... sublime !!!! profonda meditazione? interrogativo sul nostro essere. Questa musica mi fa venire un nodo alla gola...
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Did you block me?! Why don't you explain how you think my piece only uses 2-3 harmonies and sequences. I managed to use practically every enharmonic chord in music, you useless piece of French shit. My music is intensely complicated from a harmonic and thematic standpoint. You wish you could write music like that.
Nobody is blocking you - you are not a danger to society! ;)
Please continue to use every "enharmonic cords" in your compositions. You obviously have very high opinion about yourself and your music... I better stick with Bach, Mozart and Chopin - your music is too complicated for me ;)
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I just want you to explain to me what two or three 'harmonies' you think I used. Explain what you meant. Did I use two or three chords; two or three keys? Just tell me, because I'd love to hear it. If I have to, I will list every chord I used in the piece as well as all the modulations and atonicizations, and then we can compare the 'two or three harmonies' that you think are there with what's really there. I think you typed something and you don't know what it means.
I would prefer to discuss your "compositions" at the relevant place, i.e. your video. You pollute this forum with your ridiculous comments. If you wish to attract attention to your video, please find better way. Your piece and playing is not a match to Brahms and Neuhaus.
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Yeah, that's what I thought. If you can't tell me the two or three harmonies you claim I used, then shut your useless French mouth! My piece, by the way, is better than the piece being played on this page. It is certainly better than anything you could ever write.
Amazing
phemt666 1 month ago
Благородно,тонко и возвышенно! Словом. по-нейгаузовски!
777ViolettaAngelo 2 months ago
Русская школа лучшая в мире!Прекрасно!
AZENA1997 3 months ago
something special.
littlemisskittyminky 3 months ago
thank you very much !!
wonderful !!
yusukeundisolde 3 months ago
The out-of-tuneness makes this recording so intimate, this is a recording I want to come back to listen over and over - will never get old! Thanks for uploading!
yiyiku 5 months ago 2
This is the kind of interpretation that makes me remember why in the world I'm a musician. Pure music, no hidden agenda, no other interest than just playing the piano...Великий Нейгауз!!!
angel0exterminador 6 months ago 2
Does anyone know what pianos the pianists play on? I'm assuming Steinway (since it seems to be the most commonly used in the concert hall) but it would still be nice to know...
keetner 9 months ago
I feel like I've just watched an entire man's life: birth, experience, loss, epiphanies, joy, regret, complacency, desire, thoughts, pain, and love.
Insanely emotion-evoking interpretation.
TheBaesment 9 months ago 2
Do you happen to know more information about the recording, like what year, where it was recorded, etc?
ack153 10 months ago
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Recorded in 1952, probably Moscow... where else? ;)
truecrypt 10 months ago
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He voices it so clearly. Th inner voice are just barely there. A revelation.
debbylyttle 11 months ago
He voices it so clearly. Th inner voice are just barely there. A revelation.
debbylyttle 11 months ago
Interpretazione ideale.
Heinrich Neuhaus che splendido poeta!
selezione100 1 year ago
@allstar8000: I do have perfect pitch as well, or pretty close to it, and I've recently been playing this piece a bunch of times lately on my own (its even more moving to play than listen for some reason), and I think the problem is not what key he's in. Instead, I think the piano he's playing on is just slightly out of tune. I noticed it as well; but then I could definitely hear the D and A chords in the beginning, so it was still in the original key.
DathronSpam83 1 year ago
@DathronSpam83 Yeah, I listened to this and another version back to back and this one seems like its almost a semitone(tone? semitone? no idea) off or something
stphnlngdn 10 months ago
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How come everybody likes this piece? The main theme= Oh my Gaaaawsh, O M Geeeee. The B section is pretty good though. That first theme will always bother me though; it sounds so fluffily lame. Brahms must've had on his tutu when he came up with that theme.
Neongrapes 1 year ago
@Neongrapes are you kidding me? you clearly don't understand the piece at all.
fledgehog 10 months ago
@fledgehog Yeah I'm having a hard time understanding all that sophisticated harmony and deep, deep, sentiment that is somewhere in Brahm's beard.....I think you're suffering from fluffitis; it's a condition where you're emotionally moved by cheesy music.
Neongrapes 10 months ago
@Neongrapes Anyone can write fluffy cheesy music. Only Brahms could have written this piece.
werq34ac 10 months ago 2
Interpretazione perfetta!
EmanuelaZucchi 1 year ago
whoa. i have perfect pitch too..and he almost sounds as if he starts on a D instead of Csharp.. o_o
wuttabeast 1 year ago
Good heavens this piece is beautiful!!!!!! I am quite puzzled as to why Wagner consistently comes out ahead of Brahms on lists of the "Best Western "Classical" composers ever." To my mind, Brahms had a much wider scope of composition, and i would MUCH rather listen to the Deutches Requiem than the screechy old Ring Cycle any day.
HolyMotherofGrid 1 year ago
He was the greatest teacher of all times. I'm not keen on the quality of the recording but his musical interpretation is excellent. That reserved passion that we all love about Brahms really comes out in this piece.
rjcasey 1 year ago
Is this in the original key? My perfect pitch often malfunctions :D heh, thanks.
allstar8000 1 year ago
@allstar8000 Your perfect pitch is not acting up in this case: the pitch seems to be about an eighth of a tone sharp in this old recording. I guess it got sped up somewhere along the line!! // By the way, do you associate colors or emotions with various pitches, as some with perfect pitch do?
HolyMotherofGrid 1 year ago
@HolyMotherofGrid Thanks! And no, not emotions or colours, but I hear notes in my head. As in, I hear "do re mi", which is annoying because I can't use a moveable "do".
allstar8000 1 year ago
@HolyMotherofGrid Also, I can't have even instrumental background music when I'm working, because hearing the notes is like having someone sing in solfege! I hear some instruments better than others; I am best with piano, and usually get that right. Still, I have a tendency to be off by a semitone. I have better luck with top note melodies than harmony. I struggle with low notes (think bass guitar and timpani). So I have rather impaired perfect pitch! How about you?
allstar8000 1 year ago
@allstar8000 Fascinating... partial perfect pitch!! Thanks for sharing: one learns something every day, but when folks share freely, this becomes easier. // For myself, i have very good "relative pitch". In choirs, i am often counted upon to keep others in my section on pitch. I can usually guess within a half tone what a pitch is, by comparing it to how it "feels" relative to my vocal ability to produce it. I do this in my head somehow so i am not sub-vocalizing.
HolyMotherofGrid 1 year ago
@HolyMotherofGrid Same here, I have really good relative pitch. As a pianist, there are some notes I just hear so often that I can easily pick them out if they're played on a piano.
cfwpiano 1 year ago
What a great performance of this most beautiful piece. Thank you for posting it...
Hello2500 1 year ago
is this played up a step???
KatyB34 1 year ago
I am falling in love with this man's highly musical and sensitive playing, and his versions of great piano compositions often turn out to be my favorites; this Brahms is no exception. He joins Dinu Lipatti, Alfred Cortot, Artur Schnabel, Benno Moiseiwitsch and a few others in my affections who were great musicians as well as great pianists.
billyguns2 1 year ago
I am so in love with this piece.. And Neuhaus plays it so perfect.
Marvellous.
definitivunkreativ 1 year ago
Beautifully played.
marcxopoco 1 year ago
So Exquisite. So refined. So subtle. So sensitive. Very unlike the brassy playing of today.
NordicHealer 1 year ago
This guy is great! The best interpretation of this piece i have heard yet! Why isn't he famous like his contemporaries?
I guess he wasn't flashy enough, like Richter or Horowitz was...
brassmonkeyjew 1 year ago
Great musician¡¡¡ I have listened four versions: Neuhaus, Katchen, Lupu and Pogorelich and this is the best¡¡¡¡¡¡ Incredible Mister Neuhaus
oistrakh19081974 1 year ago
This is just beautiful. I feel that the climax could be more passionate and a little slower, to give it a bit of grandeur... But other than that I am in love
zesky 1 year ago 3
Sounds good in B-flat major.
NeilWilliamAnderson 1 year ago 6
Anyway thank you for the post. Id really like to get a good recording of this and see if I could digitally correct the tuning of the piano cause by the age of the recording. I cant imagine what this sounded like when it was first recorded if this is this good with aged technology wow I wish I could have been in the studio that day!!
Lancerator 1 year ago
I dont know what it is about this piece (well I guess I do) but the way this guy plays it it crushes me everytime I hear it. Im a composer myself, not classical but studied music in college and theres something about Brahms that just speaks to me and Heinrich plays this piece how is suppose to be played. Infact what Ive noticed about Brahms is alot of artist play his works but dont really know how to interpret it that well but thats just my opinion.
Lancerator 1 year ago 2
oh, yes i agree with you franzleone. this is an extraordinary rendering. i cherish it, and i keep returning to it. such eloquence, without self-indulgence and nothing maudlin, very honest, passionate, yet restrained. so CLEAR, so in rhythm with natural breathing and feeling.
Pianos85 1 year ago
ah beautiful...pianos not to hot tho :(
DanDaMan2794 1 year ago
who is this?never heard
TheBMW320cabrio 2 years ago
Manly tears.
TheMoi 2 years ago
This is the most gorgeous rendering of the exquisite Brahms Intermezzo Op. 118, #2. Genuine, heartfelt, and beautiful from start to finish. Such a pity these recordings are out of print.
steelydanto 2 years ago 9
The Golden Sound
gugunchik 2 years ago 7
Sheer delight!!!
superbemaison 2 years ago
without words.
In many years of study piano and listening to pianists one of the best piano singer,a true poet.
He remind me sofronistky playing scriabin prelude op.11 no.11.
thank you!
franzleone 2 years ago 2
Truly beautiful performance!
peopleinsorrow 2 years ago 2
the out of tuness makes it very nostalgic. suits this piece
yiyiku 2 years ago
beautiful
ccppgg1 2 years ago
i always come back to you, always interested in how you will handle the fabric of any piece, and I am always happy i did. Heinrich Neuhaus SINGS. to my ears and soul he always leads with the clear bell-like voice, sure and secure, never turgid, but never superficial. if i want to understand the structure and intention of the composer, i turn always first to this pianist.
Pianos85 2 years ago 5
That's it, he makes the magic happen: "percusive" piano becomes a signing instrument.
guboub 2 years ago 3
neuhaus always has this lighthearted personality that is very evident straight to his playing. makes us feel good and make us think everything is fine listening to him.
libetta 2 years ago
i kinda liked it when it's a bit sharp
iwanabana 2 years ago
Thank you for this. :)
kkappelmeister 2 years ago 2
Utterly gorgeous. Thank you.
vstasov 2 years ago
AMAZINGGG!!
but the piano sounds a bit out of tune at some points? oh well...STILL AMAZING!
singmeanythingx 2 years ago 2
i think it's the recording (is quite old) not the piano...
Aensgard 2 years ago 4
@Aensgard >>>Yes I agree.
lewars1912 2 years ago
the best legato that i have heard!!
The piano truely sing.................
kempff95 2 years ago 6
I think he is playing too vividly. The piece is so fragile. My favourite is Elisabeth Leonskaja. She played it 2006 in Hamburg after Rach 2 and hit the right tune.
telvierundachtzig 2 years ago
There is no right tune. Music isn't about playing exactly the way the composer wanted you to. Your way is the right way.
And I always hear people say, "where is the passion?! btw, the dynamics are off." Pffffttt.
Nickthejedi1 2 years ago 2
I agree one hundred percent. Telling a pianist how to play is like telling a painter what to paint. Completely ridiculous. Music comes from the heart and soul; no "right" or "wrong" way.
xyellowxschoolxbusx 1 year ago
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BirdsBrasil 2 years ago
Excellent!
piano50 2 years ago 4
This is FAR the best recoding of this piece!
pianoOBBSESED 2 years ago 35
I agree! Thank you for introducing this great pianist! I will finding more of his recording...
OldRabit 2 years ago 3
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singmeanythingx 2 years ago
Il più bel pezzo per piano nella storia
ababababababab3 2 years ago
hi people I am studying this piece, does anybody who did it have any pointers for me?
trinimusician 2 years ago
Listen to the sound you're creating and let the piece play itself.
mziel53 2 years ago
thanks
trinimusician 2 years ago
Avoid practicing with a metronome at all costs. The most important thing, I think, is to play with the type of rhythmic freedom that Neuhaus so masterfully displays in this recording.
magdluke 2 years ago 8
thanks
trinimusician 2 years ago
@trinimusician
I'm not sure I agree with magdluke's suggestion to avoid the metronome at all costs. I think the metronome plays an important part in the initial learning of a piece. Once you have the proper rhythm figured out, then turn off the metronome and bring it to life. Without a solid foundation to work from, it might not turn out as well. Claude Debussy, who is known for his romantic and expressive pieces, insisted that his students use the metronome. Just my thoughts anyway...
MShepherd88 2 years ago 10
True that, you should be able to play a whole piece with absolutely no changes in tempo, if you cant you should pick up a metronome and gain that ability.
KITMaverick 2 years ago
KITMaverick - sure if you want to play like a robot.
kjm777777 1 year ago
@MShepherd88 I don't care what anyone else says, you are completely right. Unless you can count every measure to your self, you should be using the metronome. Do that with the metronome until you learn the proper rhythm, and then you base the tempo changes based on the phrasing of the piece. Just my 2 cents...
stphnlngdn 10 months ago
If you listen closely to the way the great musicians play it, you will hear that the intensity or volume created by each hand differs. the right hand mostly produces most volume but in this song it switches a few times. especcialy when the second theme comes in. this all is more audible in other recordings. try to use this effect to improve your playing
Auromarmonk 2 years ago 4
thanks
trinimusician 2 years ago
Now this is what great music is all
about. Good one, TC.
jghancockjr 2 years ago
Lets listen to the professor.
A very humorous person.
Heinrich Neuhaus was the teacher of:
Emil Gilels
Sviatoslav Richter
Radu Lupu
the mother (first teacher) of Andrei Gavrilov.
He is the grandfather of Bunin.
Excellent interpretation, professor!
ClassicalOJazz 2 years ago 6
@ClassicalOJazz
you omitted one of his greatest students - Anatoly Vedernikov (a far more interesting musician than Radu Lupu in my book), a pianist unlike any other. Andre and myself have uploaded many of his performances, including this piece which I forgot to post as a response to this video but you can find it on my channel. it's absolutely splendid
punkpoetry 10 months ago
Recordings will age. Music never stops.
ianchow107 3 years ago 5
This was a revelation to me. Thank you. To me it seems like true Brahms playing coming out of what I would imagine is a real tradition. Why the piano is so out of tune puzzles me but the musicality is humbling.
jm960 3 years ago 2
Indeed...'Simply Neuhaus'...he and this piece go so nicely together...
Thank you for sharing this.
jpoiyacneo 3 years ago 4
What a beautiful piece. This is the one to learn from if preparing this piece, I agree.
natber27 3 years ago 4
the sections at the 1:29 and 4:45 mark always breaks me in half. to be able to musically make some indescribable pang of nostalgia that can't be verbalized, and is so subtle in its crushing devastation, is a characteristic of people that are not of this Earth... even if they did walk upon it briefly.
ruru1975 3 years ago 46
Don't forget the part at 3:19 - I get goosebumps every time I hear it. So beautiful it makes you want to cry.
767Jordan 2 years ago 2
@ruru1975 It's the inversion of the theme, caressing...
mariusfelix 1 year ago
This performance is so beautiful it's almost unimaginable! I listened to other interpretations on Youtube but this performance displays mastery and maturity and knowledge of the musical line. Pure sentiment without the gushy sentimentality. A performance to learn from!
1citycouncil 3 years ago 3
It is the best performance of op.118! Thanks for posting!
gromoglas77 3 years ago 8
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Horribly out of tune.
Even if the interpretation was well judged, the spine-tinglingly awful audio is just inexcusable.
Please remove this from You Tube before you add to the suicide rate.
Thanks.
slapupchrist 3 years ago
I will gladly remove this video as soon as you will post a better one... until then let me decide whether to keep it or not. BTW you don't have to listen if this performance irritates your aural sensitivity. Seems like you're more interested in "Sex, Skydiving, REAL martial arts of Japan (bona fide koryu)". Please stick with those.
truecrypt 3 years ago
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What makes you think I'm more interested in Sex, Skydiving, REAL martial arts of Japan (bona fide koryu)???
Did you get all wound-up at my comments and decide to launch a character assassination based on what's written on my channel?
Well, get this: I will 'stick with' whatever I choose to stick with and I'll leave rational, intelligent, honest comments wherever I see fit. If you don't like that, then that's your misfortune. Not mine.
I reiterate: this video is out of tune and so it sucks.
slapupchrist 3 years ago
1. Your interests are defined in your YT profile.
2. You have no idea about problems with sound distortion and compression while dealing with old recordings and YT uploads. As such - let me reiterate - your comments are rude, uneducated and have nothing to do with intelligence and honesty.
truecrypt 3 years ago
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truecrypt,
1. The interests listed on my YT profile are SOME of my interests.
2. Saying "your comments are rude, uneducated and have nothing to do with intelligence and honesty" was NOT a reiteration, as you didn't say that in your initial reply to me.
I suggest you are the one in need of education.
slapupchrist 3 years ago
1. I assume you listed your *main* interests in your profile. Of course Brahms and Neuhaus make your interests more diversified but less logical.
2. You probably didn't understand what I said in my first comment. May be I was too polite... but the idea was that you are rude and uneducated person. I *reiterated* the same in my second reply in rather plain form, so you would understand it clearly.
truecrypt 3 years ago
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truecrypt,
1. Your assumption regarding my 'main' interests is incorrect.
2. There is noting in your original reply to me that suggests I am ignorant.
3. If you surmise from my comments that I am ignorant, then you betray your ignorance of knowledge.
slapupchrist 3 years ago
1. Whatever you choose to list as your main or secondary interests - is all up to you. I mentioned your interests because they have nothing in common with classical music.
2. You didn't understand it. Sometimes a phrase like "good tie" can mean "what a moron".
3. You are rude and ill-mannered at least. The degree of ignorance probably can be disputed but not the fact by itself. Let's see what other people think about our "exchange".
truecrypt 3 years ago 2
*I* appreciate your posting this wonderful historic recording. I suspect that most people who listened to this appreciate it as well.
There is a wealth of old recordings from when the available technology resulted in crackles and pops in the audio. Some of the most imaginative performances are preserved in this format. This is a prime example among countless others from Cortot to Hofmann.
Until today I was unaware that *Heinrich* Neuhaus had made recordings.
Thank you.
wol4fram 3 years ago 3
@truecrypt
Thank you truecrypt for all of the videos you have posted. Some of them were a tremendous help and education to myself. I couldn't even fathom what it would feel like though to have to put up with all the sententious people who think subjectivity is fact. But please please please keep doing what you're doing.
drawingnotes 1 year ago
I will agree that the video is piss-poor as far as tuning, but to a pianist this is pure GOLD!
Though the tuning has suffered because of the age of the recording, we are still able to hear what the pianist does with his phrasing, dynamics, expression, and show of emotions. It's beautiful if you can see past the notes... Notes and pitches are merely exoskeletons in music.
So I can't agree on the part where you said it 'sucks'. lol
christoperfect 3 years ago 12
@slapupchrist
But honestly! If I told my professor I wouldn't listen to a recording of a great artist because the recording is old, I'm sure I would be removed from my department. Also, if the majority of comments here says the video is good, and you think its bad for something as noticeable as the quality of the recording, shouldn't that tell you something? So keep your damn mouth shut. Anyone can type pretty words with a spell check. But your remarks show you don't know a thing about this.
drawingnotes 1 year ago
drawingnotes, I will most certainly not keep my 'damn' mouth shut. I will say as I please and that which I please will always be honest and sensible.
The fact remains, my dear deluded chap, that this recording is horribly out-of-tune and so it matters not one wit how supposedly brilliant Neuhaus' interpretation is of Brahms' music because the audio rendition of said interpretation is of woeful quality and thus renders any listening experience an unfortunate assault on the ears.
Understand?
slapupchrist 1 year ago
@slapupchrist
I see, I do understand now. Mayhaps Smash Mouth will be better to your liking then~
drawingnotes 1 year ago
@slapupchrist
and I suppose Rachmaninoff playing Rachmaninoff is a piece of shit too?
drawingnotes 1 year ago
@slapupchrist
I suppose Casablanca was a waste of time because it's not in color too...
drawingnotes 1 year ago
@slapupchrist
I guess you are a connoisseur of good quality - to replicate a situation to be most vivid. However, dear BUDDAY, I am a connoisseur of music. So have fun being limited to less than half a century. I'll continue to grow my mind past that.
drawingnotes 1 year ago
drawingnotes, when you say you are a connoisseur of music, are you referring to music throughout history? If so, which particular eras of musical history are more to your delectation? Renaissance? Early, Mid or Late Baroque, perhaps? Or are you a classical enthusiast? If so, do you prefer works by early classicists such as J.C. Bach and Stamitz or are you more sympathetic toward the latter Gallant style of late Haydn and Mozart?
slapupchrist 1 year ago
Then again, drawingnotes, maybe you opt for Early Romanticism (such as was ushered-in by Beethoven during the opening bars of his Symphony No.3 in E-flat Major, Opus 55, and originally intended to be dedicated to Napoleon Bonaparte).
Of course, you may well be a mid-Romantic bu8ff, seeing as you like the music of Herr Brahms (who described himself as a 'classical romanticist').
slapupchrist 1 year ago
No doubt, drawingnotes, you also appreciate some of the late Romantic works by composers such as Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov and Mahler, whose works owe much to the likes of Mendelssohn, Berlioz and Wagner insofar as their vivid depiction of tragedy and the grotesque is concerned.
slapupchrist 1 year ago
Personally, drawingnotes, my interest falls short of the impressionism that followed and the avant-garde, minimalistic and a-tonal-istic evolution of music since the late Romantic period.
My preference is for Early Romantic works by Weber, Mendelssohn and Wagner, mid to late Baroque by composers such as J.S.Bach, S.L.Weiss and F. von Biber, and the Symphonies of Brahms.
I have hundreds of CDs, mostly on period instruments (I love gut strings and natural horns) and they're all WELL RECORDED.
slapupchrist 1 year ago
@slapupchrist
I am pretty impressed to see this. You either done some extensive research (which i hope you didn't) or you really know what you like.
If these are questions that you really want an answer to, I'll answer them for you. Each era of classical music is highlighted for a style of composition. Baroque - Counterpoint. Gallant--> Classicism - to appeal to the common man. Romanticism - To reflect emotion. etc. Needless to say that each genre is not limited to things only. (cont.)
drawingnotes 1 year ago
@drawingnotes
Not limited to these things only**** typo-heat of the moment. I'm sure you know how these things work. :)
drawingnotes 1 year ago
@slapupchrist
But what I truly love are the composers who pushed ahead of their time! Scarlatti, who did not limit himself to the rules of composition and wrote the most amazing keyboard works I've heard. Beethoven who pushed classicism to romanticism. Liszt who pushed Romanticism to Impressionism. But the point I wanted to make to you was, was not of good composers but of good performers. (cont.)
drawingnotes 1 year ago
@slapupchrist
Yes, quality says a lot to a listener, but I will take an early Horowitz recording over a Lang Lang recording until the day I die, and there's a reason for that. Horowitz was an artist, he took a piece a hundred years old and made it something new. How piano performance evolved, it is now only the demand to replicate - To follow your henle publication as most accurately as you can. At least Horowitz stretched my mind, made me think, I dont care if the recording is scratchy. :)
drawingnotes 1 year ago
No, drawingnotes. I didn't do research in order to sound as if I knew about the difference between a Pisendel violin sonata and a Poulenc valse. One of the age-old deductions by people who are attempting to win a debate on You Tube is to suggest anyone who disagrees with them is simply using Wikipedia in between posts.
Anyway, I'll stick to what I have been saying all along. If the recording is rubbish, the sound is rubbish. This recording of Neuhaus is out of tune and is, therefore, rubbish.
slapupchrist 1 year ago
@slapupchrist
K stick to that. I want my answer though. Is Rachmaninoff playing Rachmaninoff rubbish also?
drawingnotes 1 year ago
drawingnotes, I have a recording of Rachmaninov playing his truncated versions of his second and third piano concertos. I also have Pablo Casals' recordings of Bach's unaccompanied 'cello sonatas. In both cases, the recording quality is poor insofar as the limited spaciousness afforded my mono recording. However, these recording are not out of tune. They are simply mono and 'wooden'.
I'd far rather listen to an in-tune stereo recording by a decent pianist or 'cellist of today.
slapupchrist 1 year ago
@slapupchrist
My jaw just hit the floor. But fair enough, your losses.
drawingnotes 1 year ago
they're not my 'losses', drawingnotes, any more than your apparent inability to prefer modern interpretations recorded in stereo and played in tune are your 'losses'. They're preferences and they're also in line with the widely held view (although that doesn't necessarily make it a correct view) that improvements have been made in both recording quality and performance practice, which we call 'progress'.
I used to hold to the view that 'older' meant 'better'. Not any more, though.
slapupchrist 1 year ago
@slapupchrist
oh no dear sir, I listen to both old and new. I also don't immediately dismiss something wonderful with crude remarks for a faulty recording, because the man is great. Again and again, if you don't understand why this is good, that's fine. But for the most part, a lot of people seem to be enjoying this, not my fault you can't get why. But the dry cynicism is offensive, not honest or sensible at all. Performance progress? tell that to Liszt.
drawingnotes 1 year ago 5
@slapupchrist
Shakespeare and his old english. ABSOLUTELY TERRIBLE!
drawingnotes 1 year ago
@slapupchrist
Sorry this is a year past due, but I was so upset after reading this comment. If we dismissed every pianist who had an older recording, I feel like we would miss out on some of the most invaluable musical performances. I'm not sure what you're instigating with "even if", but don't forget that this man taught Richter and Giles. I'm sure it would be interesting to put Neuhaus and sLApuPChriSt in the same room to talk about musical interpretation.
drawingnotes 1 year ago
no offense, but do check your pulse if you're not cheering for this! xD
swordyboyakon 3 years ago
I've learned most of my piano playing from Neuhaus' book. And my favorite piece to play was Brahms 118.2. But I've never dreamed of hearing Neuhaus play this.
You've made it possible, truecrypt. Thank you so much!
jbbrightc 3 years ago 2
Wonderful!!
Ballfrau 3 years ago
such singular charm..
punkpoetry 3 years ago
Master!!! Best interpretation I've heard so far, along with Colleen Lee's.
chizzieshark 3 years ago
Waht a sound! wonderful sound in the first part, i'll dream of a sonority a bit different in the middle-minor section( listen for instance Lupu's performance)but apart from these absurd considerations; a wonderful, magnificent sound and interpretation! thank'you!
wehwalte 3 years ago
I like this interpretation so fare number 1 on my list, and thank you truecrypt for posting such a wonderful piece.
pablomimalco 3 years ago
wonderful performance
gabitico 3 years ago
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Not much better than Luganski!
cynic150 3 years ago
It doesn't have to be "much" better...
Sometime it's just *a little bit better* which makes a difference between "very good" and "great".
Very few though can cross this fine line.
truecrypt 3 years ago
I am working on this piece now =]
I hope I can do it justice, it deserves nothing less than to be played with the utmost mastery...
vocalpianist 3 years ago
god bless brahms...
lasharul 3 years ago
Everyone of you arguing here is an idiot. Just enjoy the music. Seriously, people.
electricraccoon 3 years ago
Without doubt, the russian piano school is the best in the world. This is a good example.
rolandonavarro 3 years ago
Neuhaus learnt from Godowsky. not really russian trained..
xinjunxinjun 3 years ago
Neuhaus learned not only from Godowsky... He spent most of his life in Moscow Conservatory and became a symbol of Russian/Soviet piano school. The subject is more complicated than "Russian trained" or "German trained" ;)
truecrypt 3 years ago
What a great pianist.
aewanko300 3 years ago
My God!! what a music !!!!! I'm getting crazy for it.. Tears and deeply sensitive... One of the best piano pieces ever composed...
ilovescarlatti 3 years ago
yes this is one of the BEST pieces ever composed!!! one especially enjoy it if there is a memory attached to the meaning and expression of this intermezzo. God bless Brahms indeed!!!! good job!!!
trinimusician 3 years ago
Also, musicwriter83, I am amazed that someone who considers himself to be a composer of serious music is bothering to debate on You Tube!!! Seriously, do you realise how petty you seem to anyone with moderate intelligence? You use obscenities to add weight to your arguments and opinions as if you were a spoiled child. Go back to your no-doubt second-rate composition and grow up.
mikelevans 3 years ago
musicwriter83, you say "It is MY musical opinion that Bach's music is riddled with way too much counterpoint and loses its charm quickly, which is completely true". So, first you say it is your 'opinion' and then you state that it is 'completely true'. You clearly are a self-opinionated individual who strives to validate his assertions by means of thinly-veiled statements of 'fact'. If you don't like Bach's music, that is a matter of personal taste.
mikelevans 3 years ago
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How about I stab both your eyes out of your head. When you write something better, then you can have an opinion. Don't type like you're smarter than I am. It will not work, plus I will stab your eyes out of your fucking head.
musicwriter83 3 years ago
musicwriter83, you are one sick individual. But, attempting to debate with me by using spiteful and coarse language sounds very familiar to me. Have a look I say on my channel. mikelevens strikes again...
mikelevans 3 years ago
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Let me simplify this for everyone reading this: Truecrypt commented on a piece I wrote by saying it has '2-3 harmonies and a couple sequences'(that is an exact quote). I have asked him roughly ten times to explain the two or three 'harmonies' he decided my piece has. [[By the way, you don't say a piece of music has 'harmonies'! If you only knew how ridiculous that sounds!]] Everytime I simply ask him, he evades the ? by commenting on how absurd my composition is.
musicwriter83 3 years ago
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This is another example of someone who truly loves music and wants so badly to be a famous musician but has no real musical knowledge or talent. So he goes on Youtube and dresses himself up in pretentious musical clothing in an attempt to force his musical authority when CLEARLY he has no formal eduation, and when he sees a video of someone playing who is more musically talented, he shits a rage of envy. YOU INSULTED MY PIECE FOR NO REASON, AND I DEMAND EITHER AN EXPLANATION OR AN APOLOGY!
musicwriter83 3 years ago
1. You post comments at the wrong place.
2. You are correct - I should say - "you use 2-3 harmonies..."
3. You use more than 2-3 harmonies in your "piece", but it sounds like computer generated sequence..
4. You are the one who posts idiotic comments regarding Bach, Gould, Brahms.
5. I'm quite educated and have no reason to be envious for your "skills and talents".
I put it in simple terms since you "demand" an explanation. As for apology - you are the one who should be ashamed of your words.
truecrypt 3 years ago
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Don't tell me my comments are idiotic. It is MY musical opinion that Bach's music is riddled with way too much counterpoint and loses its charm quickly, which is completely true. Your snotty little ass wants to think you're smarter than everyone else. You are not smarter than me in music, I guarantee it!
musicwriter83 3 years ago
Well... I still think your comment(s) are idiotic and the last one clearly speaks for itself. At the end of your video you made an annotation: "then I smile as a dork"... Of course you are the smartest one in music! ;)
truecrypt 3 years ago
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Yes I am, and don't you forget it, you little French asshole!
musicwriter83 3 years ago
No, you are not... you also have no sense of humor...
But your obsession with asshole is well noted!
truecrypt 3 years ago
ma non ho diementicato Neuhaus... pure lui tra i nostri grandi della musica...
ilovescarlatti 3 years ago
Divino Brahms... musica struggente, malinconica.... sublime !!!! profonda meditazione? interrogativo sul nostro essere. Questa musica mi fa venire un nodo alla gola...
ilovescarlatti 3 years ago
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Did you block me?! Why don't you explain how you think my piece only uses 2-3 harmonies and sequences. I managed to use practically every enharmonic chord in music, you useless piece of French shit. My music is intensely complicated from a harmonic and thematic standpoint. You wish you could write music like that.
musicwriter83 3 years ago
Nobody is blocking you - you are not a danger to society! ;)
Please continue to use every "enharmonic cords" in your compositions. You obviously have very high opinion about yourself and your music... I better stick with Bach, Mozart and Chopin - your music is too complicated for me ;)
truecrypt 3 years ago
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I just want you to explain to me what two or three 'harmonies' you think I used. Explain what you meant. Did I use two or three chords; two or three keys? Just tell me, because I'd love to hear it. If I have to, I will list every chord I used in the piece as well as all the modulations and atonicizations, and then we can compare the 'two or three harmonies' that you think are there with what's really there. I think you typed something and you don't know what it means.
musicwriter83 3 years ago
I would prefer to discuss your "compositions" at the relevant place, i.e. your video. You pollute this forum with your ridiculous comments. If you wish to attract attention to your video, please find better way. Your piece and playing is not a match to Brahms and Neuhaus.
truecrypt 3 years ago
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Yeah, that's what I thought. If you can't tell me the two or three harmonies you claim I used, then shut your useless French mouth! My piece, by the way, is better than the piece being played on this page. It is certainly better than anything you could ever write.
musicwriter83 3 years ago
No doubt Brahms couldn't write better music than you do! Thank you! You made my day! ;)
Please don't post here - people can find your profile by clicking on your user name. I hope they will have as much fun as I did.
truecrypt 3 years ago