Name: 5 Minutes On... Brahms - Piano Concerto No.1 (D minor) | Daniel Barenboim [subtitulado]
Uploaded: 2022-09-20T16:29:27.000Z
Duration: 5 min 15 s
Description: Thousands of YouTube videos with English-Chinese subtitles! Now you can learn to understand native speakers, expand your vocabulary, and improve your pronunciation...

I'm Daniel Barenboim and I would like to welcome you to this episode about

This will be a five-minute chat about this masterpiece.

The First Piano Concerto of Brahms starts with a huge orchestral introduction.

The music then develops, gets a little bit more lyrical

more permanent lyricism and this is where the piano comes in:

And it is this contrast that is permanently there

Brahms wrote it when he was very young and didn't write a second one

until many years later when he had maybe mellowed.

But the dramatism of this is something quite extraordinary and

something that excites me every time I play or conduct this piece.

contrast to the first theme and the piano plays this:

The second movement starts very quietly and is throughout a very quiet

Some would say almost a religious atmosphere predominates.

And this climate - this quiet climate, very introspective

That's why the surprise when the third movement starts which is a very lively

And this piece is so fascinating because usually you have concertos where the

orchestra plays a minor role - a role of accompanying the piano or sometimes you

have concertos where the piano is not so important but here you have

a dialogue on equal basis and it is really

one of the most wonderful pieces in the repertoire.

but of course I am very attached to the most recent one which I recorded with

the Staatskapelle in Berlin and the conductor for whom I have great

It was a great pleasure for me to be able to do that

with such a young person with such a musical talent.

In any case I hope you have enjoyed this episode.

for the next episode. Of course you can write your comments and in your comments

please write also if you have any suggestions or requests of any

particular piece of music you would like me to talk about

Subtitles ListPlay Video

5 Minutes On... Brahms - Piano Concerto No.1 (D minor) | Daniel Barenboim [subtitulado]

episode

extraordinary

enormous

permanent