{"id":714,"date":"2008-01-28T18:29:04","date_gmt":"2008-01-29T02:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2008\/01\/28\/brahms-rules\/"},"modified":"2013-02-07T18:37:22","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T02:37:22","slug":"brahms-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2008\/01\/28\/brahms-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"brahms rules!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was thinking about Brahms this morning as I was getting ready to go to a rehearsal of his Piano Quintet (with pianist Cary Lewis and the Arnica String Quartet – we’ll be performing it on Wednesday, February 6 at Noon in the Old Church<\/a>, Portland).<\/p>\n

As a violist, I have a long standing love affair with Brahms, prickly though he may be to some, since he treats our instrument so lovingly and with such respect. I often wonder if those who dislike him happen to play the piano, to which he is not always so kind.<\/p>\n

One of the recordings that I happened on to quite a while ago (while listening to a classical radio station) and almost immediately fell in love with was the DG recording of the three violin sonatas performed by violinist Augustin Dumay and pianist Maria Jo\u00c3\u00a3o Pires.<\/p>\n

The G major Sonata is especially lovely, and I’m posting an excerpt as an antidote to all of the recent anti-Brahms sentiment that’s been going around in the blogosphere lately.<\/p>\n[audio:brahms1_1.mp3]\n

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You can purchase this recording as a download from the DG web store<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was thinking about Brahms this morning as I was getting ready to go to a rehearsal of his Piano Quintet (with pianist Cary Lewis and the Arnica String Quartet – we’ll be performing it on Wednesday, February 6 at Noon in the Old Church, Portland).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[148,115,135],"tags":[439],"class_list":["post-714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appreciations","category-music","category-soloists-recitals","tag-brahms"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-bw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1815,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2009\/02\/03\/brahms-chamber-concert\/","url_meta":{"origin":714,"position":0},"title":"brahms chamber concert","author":"Charles Noble","date":"February 3, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Violinist Jonathan Dubay and cellist Gregory Dubay will give a concert of chamber music for strings and piano by Brahms with pianist Janet Guggenheim. 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