András Schiff - Brahms, Intermezzi Op. 117 

Thank you very much Elena!🎶 I know.. lets hope in a fast recovery for Maestro Schiff ❤️‍🩹

Absolutely beautiful thought🎶

I agree!🎶

Schiff is a great pianist

Do you have a recommedation for a pianist with a more taut and angular approach to Brahms' Intermezzi? Many thanks.

@@Eleutherarch I'll take Julius Kätchen anyday. Your tautness and angularity are my shallowness and glibness. Even the slightest waltz Brahms wrote was clasped in an iron ring. This isn't Prokofiev.

@@ilirllukaci5345 Thanks for the recommendation. I am looking forward to listening. However, you shouldn't make assumptions. My wheelhouse is death metal, particularly the uncompromising and dissonant strains. Though rhythmic devices abound, liberties do not. I go for rigidity, especially when indicated by the score of the composer themselves. It's similar with Chopin. By all accounts, his left hand was metronomic and unyielding. He had a strong aversion to looseness or elasticity with the feeling of time signatures. This guides my own playing and classical proclivities. It will continue to do so.

@@Eleutherarch Ah, but originally heavy metal was born of it's metaphorical properties of malleablity and ductile strength. Indeed strength is imparted into metal by the process of repeated hammering and warping and reheating. I guess heavy metal had it's roots in blues, where rhythmic flexibility was certainly essential. Then came Metallica. Just listen to the onomatopoeia of that word. It positively sounds brittle. Brittleness in, literally speaking, metal, precedes failure. With Metallica I think it was successful, because it expressed a heightened level of sensitivity and intellect. But it led in my opinion Metal on a path towards hysteria and spiritual anorexia. Sounds like alot of the developments in late 20th century "classical" music. Setting aside the dubious metallurgical references, I will say that it is arguable that with some compositions that bear repeated listening, the intelligent use of rubato is essential.

You are very welcome! :)🎶

Assolutamente! 🎶

Unfortunately I’m not sure about the date and place of the performance; It should be approximately from 2020…You are welcome 🙏🏻

А мне кажется, что Шифф умеет играть легато и все слышит. У него потрясающие мастер-классы и лекции по Бетховену, Гайдну и Шуберту. Он там говорит очень важные вещи для музыкантов и для исполнителей, которые в российских консерваториях не говорят. Ну хорошо, если не Шифф, то кто играет хорошо эту музыку?

@@Alexglazkov1Гульд слыхали о таком а?

@@Khukhedaru и чем Гульд лучше в опусе 117?