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Offline redbaron

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Brahms
on: October 06, 2011, 10:13:39 AM
Opinions on Brahms' music and its so-called 'unpianistic' qualities?

Offline redbaron

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Re: Brahms
Reply #1 on: October 07, 2011, 12:07:37 PM
Do none of you care for Brahms?

Offline ramseytheii

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Re: Brahms
Reply #2 on: October 09, 2011, 03:15:18 AM
Brahms is dead.

Walter Ramsey


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Re: Brahms
Reply #3 on: October 09, 2011, 07:32:35 PM
Give me strength...

Offline pianowolfi

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Re: Brahms
Reply #4 on: October 09, 2011, 08:42:34 PM
Give me strength...

That's what Brahms has, yes :) And Inspiration! :)

Offline indianajo

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Re: Brahms
Reply #5 on: October 11, 2011, 01:30:20 AM
The only piano pieces that get airplay anymore are Concerto #2, +, and Variations on a Theme by Haydn, two pianos 4 hands + though it is mostly played orchestrally.  I'll never get an orchestra as backup. I  have been trying to get someone to play Var on a Theme for twenty years, but I don't pay enough. Now she lost the score. I don't practice it anymore. Now last month I found My Favorite Brahms Van Cliburn LP at the Goodwill.  Rhapsody in B min Op 79 and Waltz in Ab Op 39.  Cool! Brahms I can play on piano by myself.  Who cares if they never play it on the radio, that is why I have a piano. Hungarian Rhapsodies are great, but I'll have to wait for Liszt to write the transcription.  Might be a long wait.    
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