ExclusiveBrahms: 7 Fantasien, Op. 116 - 3. Capriccio in G minor

【Classical music and nature 古典音樂小站】Johannes Brahms: 7 Fantasien, Op. 116 - 3. Capriccio in G minor. This beautiful piece was played by Ivan Ilic. It has Creative Commons license (CC BY 3.0 DEED, Attribution 3.0 Unported) and is provided through www.musopen.org.

"The Kaiser Bad Ischl in the Salzkammergut region of Austria provided the sophisticated setting for these Monologues of a Lonesome One. The composer had been coming here every summer since 1889: ‘If you go to Café Walter around two o'clock in the afternoon, you can see a very stout, stocky man in his fifties, with blonde hair, his highly reddened cheeks framed by a grey beard, smoking, a very stout, stocky man in his fifties with blond hair, his highly reddened cheeks framed by a grey beard, and with flashing blue eyes that show that in this man's intellectual workshop there is constant hammering and forging and never partying. Sometimes wild storms may rage in his breast, but on the surface you see nothing like an eternally unchanging Jägermeister standard shirt. It is Johannes Brahms who has decided this time to spend a summer exclusively in Ischl. He is very taciturn in larger company and only occasionally grumbles an ironic remark; but in intimate circles he takes part in the conversation lively.’

This is how the Viennese satirist Daniel Spitzer described the image of the ageing Brahms in Bad Ischl, how he stood out in his gnarled peculiarity from the mundane hustle and bustle around him. Ischl was the composer's last summer resort; he spent all his late summers there, taking long walks in the morning, drinking coffee at Café Walter in the afternoon and playing cards with his friend Johann Strauss in the evening.

Brahms composed Opus 116 in the summer of 1892 in Bad Ischl and published it in two volumes: Nos. 1 to 3 belong together because of the keys of D minor, A minor and G minor, while Nos. 4 to 7 revolve around the keys of E major and E minor. He called the three fast pieces in the series Capriccio and the slow ones Intermezzo, for which he chose very differentiated headings. Source: kammermusikfuehrer.de

Lake Thun was filmed by Christian Schlegel and the video was edited by Wenjing Ma.




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