Dmitri Bashkirov plays Brams Intermezzo Es Moll # 6, Op. 118

Johannes Brahms - Intermezzo in E Flat minor, No 6, Op. 118

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[suzettegm]

Dear cziffra1980, I guess we could argue about this a great deal.For me this is not depressing in spite of the allusion that's certainly there. Brahms never depresses me, but rather when severely depressed I take recourse to Brahms and next to (or after) the ddepression there always seems to be in his music and also in this piece some acceptance of the losses we all have to face. kind regards, Josette.

[caijpp]

For me, funeral marches are never depressing. Rather than seeing them as mournings for the dead, I see them as a confirmation by the spirits of the living.

[achoacho46]

he was born in georgia

[suzettegm]

Solitude.....

[caijpp]

Bravo! You've found your balance!

[Noshirm]

I have learned that one can never 'win' an argument - one can simply seek, with varying degrees of 'success', to more or less impose one's point of view on others, or at the very least, to seek to convince them that one's views are somehow better informed, even 'superior'. Ugh! The truth is that one simply has to learn to agree to disagree - without being disagreeable. That is a fine balancing act; people often lose their balance therein! (:-D) Submission?! Mais pourquois? Vive la difference!

[suzettegm]

Right, let's beat them into submission....ooops, now WHAT did I say??? ;)

[Noshirm]

Slow or fast, Madame - the march must be steady, n'est-ce pas? (:-D) A BAS les Philistines!

[suzettegm]

Done deal! Though I'm often marching rather slowly, oh well.

[Noshirm]

Merci beacoup for the invite, and I do accept! (:-D) I thought your stance made a lot of sense, and I felt as you did about this music. It really is rather tiresome when people seek to bludgeon one with their point of view...it does border on the rabid, don't you think?! It's one thing to tender an opinion - but QUITE another to seek to hammer it home as gospel truth. Suffice it to say you've earned my respect, Suzette! Let's keep up our Marche des Davidsbundler contre les Philistines, shall we?

[suzettegm]

Why, thank you for your comment, I'd all but forgotten about this exchange. And I like your allusion of "fist shaking" very much, that's exactly how it feels. Moreover trere's balance and justice in this piece. How could that be depressing?

[Noshirm]

I wholly agree! I think there is a difference here between 'wistful' and 'depressing'. There is also beauty to be found in these measures. I don't hear the middle section as a funeral march at all - I hear in it a certain determination, almost a fist-shaking at physical death, which is understood by the soul as a temporary separation from those it loves. The piece ends not depressingly, but mysteriously, and with a hint of calm resignation, even acceptance, of the finality of mortal existence.