In Reply to: The symphonies are tough posted by Daverz on April 16, 2012 at 15:29:34:
Sometimes he was not successful. Sym. 3. is an heroic effort in this. He succeeds, but to the detriment of his music. Third movement is a beautiful, romantic interlude. Not sure if this was his most successful attempt at it or not.
Why couldn't he just jettison the bombastics totally? His understanding of Beethoven, or German music in general?
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- Brahms was fighting bombasticism at times - MichaelV8 17:30:37 04/18/12 (24)
- Hope I never see that word again! - madisonears 22:21:49 04/19/12 (0)
- RE: Brahms was fighting bombasticism at times - josh358 17:59:02 04/19/12 (0)
- Abbado's Brahms Sym. 1 is very listenable... - kuma 20:48:54 04/18/12 (0)
- What makes you think he was fighting it? - genungo 18:32:21 04/18/12 (20)
- RE: What makes you think he was fighting it? - MichaelV8 09:39:25 04/19/12 (19)
- RE: What makes you think he was fighting it? - genungo 04:52:57 04/20/12 (2)
- I think of Brahms mainly as a chamber music - jult52 06:01:53 04/20/12 (1)
- I prefer to think of him... - genungo 16:02:11 04/20/12 (0)
- RE: What makes you think he was fighting it? - josh358 18:08:27 04/19/12 (13)
- Structure - Chris from Lafayette 22:59:49 04/19/12 (12)
- RE: Structure - josh358 06:25:53 04/20/12 (11)
- I don't want to be limited by Germanic-only concepts of structure - Chris from Lafayette 13:41:29 04/20/12 (10)
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- RE: I don't want to be limited by Germanic-only concepts of structure - josh358 15:18:26 04/20/12 (8)
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- RE: Just to be clear. . . - josh358 18:48:01 04/20/12 (6)
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- RE: What makes you think he was fighting it? - Brian Cheney 10:48:03 04/19/12 (1)
- RE: What makes you think he was fighting it? - josh358 18:01:04 04/19/12 (0)