Brahms String Sextet #1 - Doro Sextet (Part 1 of 2)

The Doro Sextet performs the 1st movement of Brahms' string sextet #1 at the Krashna Musika chamber music evening Jan 5th, 2008 (Delft, the Netherlands). The players are (left to right): Ying Wei Nio (violin 1), Jeroen Terstegge (viola 1), Hylke van Lingen (cello 1), Anna Offermans (cello 2), Kristofer G. Skaug (viola 2), and Richard van Calcar (violin 2). Camera: Marianna Marras

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Classical
• Brahms
• sextet
• strings
• Doro
• Krashna
• chamber
• Delft

[kgskaug]

Today (20/10/2010) it is exactly 150 years ago that this sextet was first performed in public... Thanks to Brahms for this great gift...!

[Euclid34]

omg...i cant hear ANY of the freaking viola II in any of these recordings!!!

[kgskaug]

Well, the first 40 seconds, Brahms didn't let me play anyway... but then there are enjoyable pizz activities at 2:00 (which Schoenberg later caricatured in Verklaerte Nacht), followed by an absolute highlight in the Viola-2 literature at 2:10 ... The classic but unnerving solo at the turn of the repeat, 3:36-3:40 and 7:10-7:14, I unfortunately botched it both times :-) In Part 2, watch the Viola -2 furiously unleashed at 1:13, check out the awesome grimace... :-)

[BrahmsDigger]

Hearing this makes me wonder why it has taken so long for a good amateur ensemble to show up on YouTube with a recording of this famous piece. Well done, and congratulations! It hits the spot!

What's the story behind your unique seating arrangement, by the way? Seems to work well... logical for the way the piece is written, with two trio's in dialogue. Much fun to watch!

[kgskaug]

Thank-you! The, er, un-orthodox seating order started as an experiment during rehearsal... the 1st viola often doubles the 1st violin. The 2nd-everythings often play together. This pattern returned in the Frank Bridge sextet. But for Brahms' sextet #2 (and Strauss) we stuck to a "conventional" arrangement :-)

[drprimate]

Excellent work. I wish my friends would get together and play music with me. Instead they just play Xbox and hit each other in the nuts. :-/

[scizhouse]

good job's for amateur if I may be so bold.

[shockthetop1pc]

@FERENCEFF I looked the piece up right after watching the movie.

[b1sII6]

It sounds to me that right at the beginning the D of cello is not accurate.

[BeannTeddy]

I know. Jeanne Moreau was wonderful in this movie. Brahms for "The lovers" and Miles Davis for "Elevator for the gallow", Louis Malle knew how to use the soundtracks to make his movies perfect.

[FERENCEFF]

How many are there that know that this music was the background for the steamy French film "The Lovers" in the late 1950s. I saw the film in the Irvington Art in the late 1950s when it was considered quite racy. The music brought a refined dignity to the movie, that would otherwise have been lacking.

[PARISA7777]

Beutiful . . .

Thanks for sharing it!