It captures his, um. like, tragic sadness. and he had so much humour and so much positivity and so much love to give people. brahms, for me, isjust one of the most heartbreaking, um. expressions of that complex human emotion that i ve ever come across. when did you first play brahms violin concerto? i came to brahms violin concerto pretty late, actually. it was probably, um.about seven years ago. um.so i got through all my teenage years without playing that violin concerto. it was one, alongside beethoven, that was really hyped up to be something that you shouldn t really attack or address until you re, i don t know, 60 years old. not quite, but, you know, mature to a certain degree. it has a kind of patience and gravitas and drama and, um. . . maturity to it that i think is probably better, um.
That we were also trying to do. so the level of sort of ingrained in our mind of, like, it s actually possible, if we do enough work, to do that. that first moment that you experience that never leaves you. why this one in particular? why is this the one? because.it s.it s not always the one that s chosen by violinists as the obvious one to play, is it? i think it started my lifelong love with brahms. i can t go to a single brahms symphony without crying four orfive times. like, ijust can t do it. it doesn t matter what kind of performance it is, the level of the performance, how many times i ve heard it, it s just. i think there s a quote about brahms that talks about smiling through tears. and i think, er.it s exactly. it s what happens in the coda moment of most of brahms works. just before the very end, you have this little moment that is. it captures his, um. like, tragic sadness.
Why is this the one? because.it s.it s not always the one that s chosen by violinists as the obvious one to play, is it? i think it started my lifelong love with brahms. i can t go to a single brahms symphony without crying four orfive times. like, ijust can t do it. it doesn t matter what kind of performance it is, the level of the performance, how many times i ve heard it, it s just. i think there s a quote about brahms that talks about smiling through tears. and i think, er.it s exactly. it s what happens in the coda moment of most of brahms works. just before the very end, you have this little moment that is. it captures his, um. like, tragic sadness. and he had so much humour and so much positivity and so much love to give people. brahms, for me, isjust one of the most heartbreaking, um. expressions of that complex human emotion that i ve ever come across.
Like, tragic sadness. and he had so much humour and so much positivity and so much love to give people. brahms, for me, isjust one of the most heartbreaking, um. expressions of that complex human emotion that i ve ever come across. when did you first play brahms violin concerto? i came to brahms violin concerto pretty late, actually. it was probably, um.about seven years ago. um.so i got through all my teenage years without playing that violin concerto. it was one, alongside beethoven, that was really hyped up to be something that you shouldn t really attack or address until you re, i don t know, 60 years old. not quite, but, you know, mature to a certain degree. it has a kind of patience and gravitas and drama and, um. . . maturity to it that i think is probably better, um. better addressed later in life.