Brothers, love is a teacher, but a hard one to obtain: learning to love is hard and we pay dearly for it. It takes hard work and a long apprenticeship, for it is not just for a moment that we must learn to love, but forever.
(Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov)
Thursday, September 25, 2008
What makes Brahms Brahms
Including an explanation of his use of the V 6/5 chord (featured prominently before the recap in the piece linked to below), by the inimitable Jeremy Denk.
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