A complete walkthrough video of Brahms' 4th Symphony. Analyze the structure of the work or just listen to the music! ROMANTIC MASTERWORKS BLOG romanticvirtuoso.blogspot.com
Wow, this is great! Thank you. I love listening to Brahms, but find his music challengingly rich in material. Following this helped a lot. I look forward to watching more of your videos.
Amazing job as a few other asnalysisa sites could not recognize the first two phrases of Theme 1 A, the recaptitulation (at 7:13) as such due to Brahms's skillful use of the woodwinds to start the antecedent which the listeners may not have noticed that recapitulation has already started.
I am a bit confused about the second theme of exposition of movement 1 as Bernsten in his 1957 analysis video and Bob Greenburg say that the German Tango is the second theme. Such demarcaion appears to be hard because Brahms is constantlt develop his themes from the beginning. So I cannot really tell where the theme two starts.
It depends on how many themes you count. Some consider the Tango to be Theme 2 but as the modulation to B Major is not yet complete until 2:33 the Tango has to be considered as part of the Modulating Bridge in my opinion. Not that I'm disagreeing with Bernstein by any means, but my sources for this were the books "Brahms: The Four Symphonies" by Walter Frisch and Volume IV of A. Peter Brown's "The Symphonic Repertoire". As you say though, the lines of structure are always blurred with Brahms so one could make a case for either.
@@Nyssa337 Always the best wisdom provided. Much appraciated for all the big help you offer to the classical music community. I think Grrenberg just took the words of Bernstein at the face value in his course as he did not elobrate furher. 📯🎼🎶 I am going through all of your other repertoire one by one as I am only finding all of the contents completely authoritative.
They aren't actually weak. The conductor Sir Charles Mackerras and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra used an orchestra similar in size to the one that premiered the symphony, and which Brahms himself preferred.
