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)
Oh, I love it too! To me it's the essence of Brahms - the elegant exterior and restraint that only partially masks profound depths of emotion. And with Brahms, there is always a sense of melancholy, loss, even death beneath that surface. The restraint that Lipatti uses makes the piece almost more moving, I think, than when it's played at a slower tempo or with more rubato . . . though more rubato would be very much part of the late-nineteenth-century Viennese waltz style.
Loved the version here. Not too much rubato.
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Oh, I love it too! To me it's the essence of Brahms - the elegant exterior and restraint that only partially masks profound depths of emotion. And with Brahms, there is always a sense of melancholy, loss, even death beneath that surface. The restraint that Lipatti uses makes the piece almost more moving, I think, than when it's played at a slower tempo or with more rubato . . . though more rubato would be very much part of the late-nineteenth-century Viennese waltz style.
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