Brahms, Piano Quartet in C minor, opus 60, 2nd mvt. Scherzo

About this video ...
Johannes Brahms' Piano Quartet in C minor, opus 60, second movement, Scherzo, performed by the Charmillon Piano Quartet: Etienne Abelin, violin, Michael Schwendimann, viola, Matthias Kuhn, violoncello, and Eva-Maria Zimmermann, piano.

Q: Where can I hear more music by that group?
A: Here:
http://www.thesixtyone.com/#/artist/EtienneAbelin/songs/

Q: Where can I download the MP3 of this piece?
A: Either on iTunes ...
http://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/charmillion-piano-quartet/id386894480
... or on Amazon ...
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B003YOYVGS/

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[MrPianoboy96]

Could you do shostakovich's string quartet 8? Especially 2nd mvt. is so great!

[smalin]

@MrPianoboy96  Shostakovich's music is still under copyright, so I can't do a video of it (without more hassle and expense than it's worth).

[UniverseApproved]

This piano quartet, along with many other of your representations, would make wonderful public art, like as wall murals. Have you ever printed a complete visual representation of yours?  I bet it would be interesting to walk up and down the entire piece, to be able to take in more of the work visually at once, for example to be able to step back and take in the entire piece at a single glace. (especially since most people primarily process most information visually.) Beautiful.

[smalin]

@UniverseApproved The first version of this was a scroll. The problem is: the width is so much greater than the height that it is not possible to "step back and take in the entire piece at a single glance." When you get far enough back to see the whole piece, you can't see much of anything about the structure.

[UniverseApproved]

@smalin Too bad this one is too wide to see all at once, but you could still see more information about the music on a wall, then what's shown on the screen, and this would still be pretty interesting, like better memory/perception. The flipside is, I guess most experience music like a journey, instead of holding it in their awareness as a totality. So it would be fun, walking and seeing only portions of the music at a time, similarily to how we experience music within time and over time.

[smalin]

@UniverseApproved The first one of these I did was a paper scroll, three inches wide and twenty feet long. If you go to my web site, you can read about the history of this project.

[fishyflappers]

love it

[Astrobrant2]

@holyjohn85 Thank you.

Is there any hope of correcting it?

[holyjohn85]

@Astrobrant2 And as for the visual, I noticed that I am able to visually check my surroundings keenly while I am driving a car. There are cases where something is on the road and you have to maneuver car to avoid it. I am generally good at that. Also, I noticed that I can tell between mild grey color differences. Maybe I would better be better off working as a designer :)

[holyjohn85]

@Astrobrant2 I have been deaf all my life. It is not total deafness, but in terms of audiology, it's profound hearing loss on one ear and non-functional ear on the other. I definitely developed visual compensation as well as olfactory sense compared to ppl with normal hearing. Let me give you examples. Generally I am the 1st person to discover something burning when someone is cooking. (I could even notice faster than the cooker!)

[holyjohn85]

@smalin information regarding to loudness definitely helps me. I don't have a favorite video of yours, as I listen to all of your video postings. They are awesome. Visually seeing the music piece enables me to enjoy fully :)

But my opinion is that since I cannot hear well even with your visual work, I "imagine" how the sound will work out alot. So I guess loudness does not count that much, it's a bonus. Maybe ppl who have better hearing than me (you know deafness has levels) might be helped.

[Astrobrant2]

@holyjohn85 Wow, that reminded me of when I was a kid and I thought it would be so cool if deaf people could see music this way. I had forgotten all about that.

If you don't mind, may I ask if you have been deaf all your life? If not, do you think you have developed a visual compensation which allows you to enjoy these graphics perhaps more than those who can hear? 

[Astrobrant2]

@costep Ha! That's interesting. They seemed about an eighth of a second early to me. Since I have no experience playing the piano, that difference in perception makes sense.

[costep]

Very nice to see that graphical interpretation. It seems to me that the graphics are a tiny bit too late. But maybe that is, because I have a different way to read the scores - a little ahead of time. I played this piece in September in France. It was such a pleasure.