Symphony No. 4 - Brahms - Fourth movement

The Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98, composed by Johannes Brahms. Conducter : Leonard Bernstein. 4rd Movement: Allegro energico e passionato - Più Allegro (in E minor).

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Music

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• classical
• Brahms
• Sacroyant

[alphabet661]

Ah, so what? The exact indication is Allegro energico e passionato. If you study the score carefully you may understand that sometimes a conductor may want to take a slower tempo for the sake of highlighting the inner contrapuntal lines of which there are a ton! Plus the question for the conductor - how fas tdo I start it IF there is an indication of Pui Allegro later?

Granted this is very IDIOSYNCRATIC,but in my humble opinion Bernstein and his work with the Vienna is simply great stuff.

[batchava]

@chokedad I heard that once Bernstein heard the second concerto of piano by Brahms. He said: It is too much slow, but after 20 years he himself conducted it in a slower manner.

[jeffg2020]

Well, you can say bizarrely slow - there's something to that. But Bernstein was often idiosyncratic. I'd say he carries it off, and how. Cumulatively it's a devastating interpretation, I think. Enigmatic and magnificent.

[chokedad]

Bizarrely slow.

[drojaz1]

Oye!!! esta linda la interpretacion de Bernstein.He escuchado la version de Kubelic y esta le da la talla, escuchen los timbales; en las pausas cortas se ven acertados y el final es vivrante.Bravo

[renato45222]

A quando una (almeno sufficiente, non perfetta) sincronia dell'immagine con il suono?

[dwlock100]

Allegro con vivo not. Too stiffioso. Thanks for the melodic horns.

[contrerados]

What's this?! He begins dreadfully slowly, almost staccatto, and barely reaches allegro, let alone energico.

Kleiber adds life to this, Giulini adds passion, and von karajan a touch of both.

This guy adds insomnia.

[al1936ful]

@ciaggo How do you know he took drugs?

[christomacin]

intense stuff, with a brutal finality to it under all that Brahmsian restraint