Pentimento: Happy Birthday

Thursday, May 7, 2009

To the great Johannes Brahms.

Anonymous said...: Loved the version here. Not too much rubato.

cheers

Otepoti; May 8, 2009 at 10:05 PM
Pentimento said...: 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.; May 9, 2009 at 10:04 AM