Posted on 06/28/2013 5:57:18 PM PDT by AZamericonnie
They are soooo big! Momma is feeding them well! LOL
How is the heat your way?
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They are very “healthy”! LOL!
It’s darn hot...but of course, AZ is always the winner in the
heat contest, so I’ll just say that 102 is way too hot for me! :)
In 1891, when Johannes Brahms was 58, he decided that his String Quintet in G, Op. 111, would be his valedictory piece. Let the youngsters take over, he said in his usual gruff manner. But that summer he went to Meiningen to hear the orchestra, one of the best in Europe, and while there he heard the orchestras clarinettist, Richard Mühlfeld, play the Weber Clarinet Concerto. Brahms went backstage, and what developed was a strong professional relationship. Miss Clarinet, as Brahms called his friend, could do things with the instrument that no one had ever done before, and this prompted Brahms to write the four pieces that form the apex of the clarinet chamber repertory: a quintet, a trio and two sonatas.
Brahms hired his old crony, violinist Joseph Joachim and his string quartet, to back Mühlfeld at rehearsals of the quintet in Meiningen. On December 1, 1891, the guys premiered the quintet in Berlin to a tumultuous reception. People understood immediately that they were hearing a musical milestone, a masterpiece written from the heart.
The Quintet for Clarinet and Strings in B minor, Op. 115, is one of the greatest of Brahms chamber works, a song of regret, sweet sadness, nostalgia and even love. Its a review of ones life before an open grave and one of the great five-handkerchief pieces. I recommend having a box of tissues handy.
That sinuous figuration that opens this sonata allegro movement is called a melisma, and it dominates the first subject. The clarinet takes up a theme that runs from the bottom to the top of its range, and its sad and nostalgic, especially at the cadence at 1:03.
At 1:32, the second subject begins in D Major, stated by the strings, and when the clarinet enters at 2:11, ever so shyly, it brings out the first handkerchief.
At 3:04, the exposition repeats.
At 6:00, development begins: a passionate breaking apart and rebuilding of the first subject. Then at 7:08, development of the second subject proceeds with great calmness.
At 9:13, the recapitulations begins, and as usual Brahms re-composes his recap.
At 10:11, he recaps the second subject, working it through several keys.
At 11:38 he takes the first subject through an emotional climax, then brings back the melisma, resolving it quietly and sadly. The second handkerchief comes out.
Brahms: Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op. 115, first movement
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Warlow looks like one of the guys from ZZ Top. I was expecting him to materialize with a guitar in hand.
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Pook was in all day today, but he is out now.
Are yall staying cool in the heatwave?
Thank you kindly, AZamericonnie. And if I may be so presumptuous as to speak for our beloved troops....
thank YOU for being here! {{{hugs to you, too}}}
Howdy! Hope you have a good weekend! :)
(HUGS)
It's going to cool off but get rainy. It should be OK.
Super! Rain is always a good thing to a “desert rat” like myself! :)
But the idea of gypsy writing was a part of Brahms music, and he moved it to different instruments. In his Quartet for Piano and Strings in G minor, Op. 25, he wrote a cadenza for gypsy piano. In his String Quintet in G, Op. 111, he wrote a passage for gypsy viola. In this Quintet for Clarinet and Strings in B minor, Op. 115, he writes for gypsy clarinet.
The slow movement. marked adagio in ternary (A-B-A) format, contains some of the most emotional writing of the piece. It starts quietly and pensively in B Major, but at 3:30 the clarinet plays a gypsy violin passage of utter anguish as the cental section. At 7:17 the opening section repeats in re-composed form. At 10:00, the coda resolves the movement with a sense of peaceful resignation.
Brahms: Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op. 115, second movement
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