Brahms piano concerto 1, mvt 3 (1of2), Ashkenazy, Giulini

Johannes Brahms
Piano concerto n°1 in D minor, op.15
3rd mvmt (Rondo : Allegro non troppo) (1of2)

Vladimir Ashkenazy
Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
Carlo Maria Giulini

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[ixcuincle]

Great Piano concerto...my only complaint is that it is split up into so many sections. I guess that's the 10 min limit though...just a minor nuisance to be hearing this divine music and then an abrupt pause because the video is done.

[tguiot]

yeah, this 10min limit is quite frustrating... i asked youtube about getting more than that, but no answer.... otherwise i would just split into the different movements...

well too bad, but better than nothing

[yupSAMiam]

Gosh this is my all-time favorite piano concerto...and he plays it really well!!!

[photo3642u]

A favourite of mine since hearing it for the first time, age 19, on the soundtrack of the 1962 film 'The L shaped Room,' with Leslie Caron directed by Bryan Forbes.

Ashkenazy is good but I enjoy also Barenboim with Barbirolli, Alfred Brendall & Clifford Curzon.

[paulostroff99]

@PhedraBcn -Giulini here.

[OrangeSodaKing]

@gitprofnikat I must have a bad edition of the score. Which do you have?

[PhedraBcn]

@arturon111 with Bruno Gelber

[gitprofnikat]

@orange

No, the orchestra comes in in piano, and there is NO diminuendo written in the preceeding piano passage. That dynamic relationship should be preserved, it seems to me, if one ascribes generally to the "rules" of classical music playing where one pretty much follows the score, figuring, in the absence of availability of consultation, it reflects the composer's intent.

[OrangeSodaKing]

@gitprofnikat But Brahms does NOT say to terminate the forte and make a subito piano there like you suggest, and you made it sound like the diminuendo he made is incorrect. You expressed distaste in that he did NOT take a liberty from the score, and also when he DOES take a liberty from the score. According to the score, the orchestra comes in forte, so the piano should still be forte to even be heard! The problem with balance is a recording error, not an error on the musicians.

[kiaragre]

thanks for having posted it!!!  Smack smack smack....

[gitprofnikat]

HIs phrasing in the opening is incorrect, appalling for a first line musician. Rather pedestrian, colorless playing. Makes an unindicated diminuendo prior to the tutti leading to the chromatic scales passage...should terminate forte with a subito piano when the orchestra comes in. In short, this is in no way representative of the way he evolved later in his career as a distinguished pianist,musician and conductor.