Matériel : Conducteur d'étude / Miniature
Brahms s acharna pendant des ann es sur l criture de sa premi re symphonie. Son impuissance face l uvre de Beethoven semblait le paralyser. ce propos il crivit d ailleurs un jour son ami le chef d orchestre Hermann Levi: Je ne composerai jamais de symphonie! Tu n as aucune id e de ce que cela peut avoir d impressionnant pour nous d entendre toujours un tel g ant (Beethoven) marcher derri re soi . Brahms y parvint pourtant en octobre 1876 et sa premi re symphonie donna lieu aussit t aux premi res ex cutions couronn es de succ s Karlsruhe Mannheim Munich et Vienne. Cette uvre publi e dans le cadre de notre nouvelle dition compl te des uvres de Brahms faitl objet ici d une dition en format d tude. Dans la pr face cette dition urtext en petit format notre diteur et sp cialiste de Brahms Robert Pascall apporte des informations int ressantes sur la gen se et l histoire de l dition de l uvre.
SKU: HL.48187614
UPC: 888680840013. 5.5x7.5x0.442 inches.
Johannes Brahms: Symphony No.4, Op.98 (PH5) (Orchestra).
SKU: BR.OB-3210-27
ISBN 9790004300732. 10 x 12.5 inches.
Johannes Brahms' first Piano Concerto was the fruit of a complex, protracted, and extremely trying creative process. Its origin goes back to a sonata in D minor for two pianos conceived in spring 1854. The impulse for the creation of the main subject was however a shocking event: According to Joseqph Joachim, the theme originated after hearing about Schumanns suicide attempt. A few months earlier, Schumann had revealed Brahms to the musical world in his essay New Paths. In this article, Brahms is extolled as the musician who is called to give expression to the feeling of his times in an ideal fashion. The unusually rapid genesis of the D-minor sonata and its prevailingly dark, monumental mood can be interpreted as an impassioned compositional response to Schumann's suicide attempt. However, the year-long struggle to arrive at the final form of the work should perhaps also be seen in the context of the resounding praise of Schumann's prophetic article. Brahms undoubtly felt a growing inner pressure to live up to the expectations aroused therein.Together with Clara Schumann, Brahms played the three so far existing movements of the sonata, but he was very self-critical. He felt that he had not been able to realize the monumentality he had envisioned, and which Clara Schumann felt, by merely doubling the piano sound. He soon decided to transform the sonata into a symphony (his first orchestral project). However, this idea did not seem to fit his vision either. Only in spring 1855 did he strike upon the definitive solution: a piano concerto. With Brahms as soloist, this concerto premiered in 1859, though he initially had little success. He wrote to Joachim about one of the first performances that the concerto was a brilliant and unmistakable - failure. This hardly surprised Brahms, for he was undoubtedly aware of the newness of the work, which surpassed the expectations of the audience. The work's complex structure and symphonic dimensions, the solo part's rejection of showy, elegant brilliance, and the uniquely Brahmsian orchestral density it maintains throughout; all of these qualities inevitably exasperated audiences at first - until they raised this work to the ranks of the most celebrated concertos of all time.
SKU: BR.OB-3210-15
ISBN 9790004300695. 10 x 12.5 inches.
SKU: BR.OB-3210-23
ISBN 9790004300725. 10 x 12.5 inches.
SKU: BR.OB-3210-19
ISBN 9790004300718. 10 x 12.5 inches.
SKU: BR.OB-3210-30
ISBN 9790004300749. 10 x 12.5 inches.
SKU: BR.OB-3210-16
ISBN 9790004300701. 10 x 12.5 inches.