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The cutest love duet in all of opera
It's hard not to like the infectiously charming character of Papageno in Mozart's The Magic Flute with his funny wit, wacky bird costume and all-too-human simpleness. He seeks love throughout the opera and he finally receives it in the form of a...an elderly woman. He nonetheless promises to love her faithfully (muttering that he will only do this until something better comes along) and she magically transforms into the young and pretty Papagena, the perfect fit for Papageno. They separate but reunite at the end, breaking into possibly the cutest love duet in all of opera, the 'Pa-, pa-, pa-, Papageno' duet. (Aptly named)
Simple harmonies (most of the piece uses just V-I) and repetitive rhythms evoke the simple and humble nature of Papageno, who is after all the archetype of the Everyman. Nonetheless, the earworm melodies, exciting rhythmic developments and rapid-fire imitative exchanges make for a lovely operatic duet. Mozart took advantage of the explosive consonant "p" in Papageno to articulate his repeated notes, in a way that's comic and references opera buffa. No surprise, considering that this duet was inspired by the “Cucuzze cavatina” from Salieri’s opera, ‘Prima la musica e poi le parole,’ and plays around with humorous bird-like utterances of pseudo-Italian words.
Recording (Roth, Le Roi): ua-cam.com/video/87UE2GC5db0/v-deo.html
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One of the most poignant melodies ever
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The clarinet sonatas come at the very end of Brahms' life and a profound simplicity begins to reveal itself which seems to imitate the touching tranquility of Schubert's late style as well. (The sparse piano writing and song-like melodic writing remind me of the slow movements in Schubert's final piano sonatas) Yet Brahms' harmonic ingenuity is almost cleverly hidden by such an unassuming piano...
When blues meets classical...
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Ravel's sonata for violin and piano comes with many important stylistic developments in his language - with the use of bitonality and a search for leaner, more classical instrumental textures. (in contrast to his large swathes of impressionistic harmonies that came before in miroirs and Daphnis et Chloé) Just a glance at the opening bars with its deceptively plain triadic harmonies and unusual ...
Just some of the best solos in the wind band literature
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Percy Grainger's Colonial Song brings with it a folk-like warmth and lyricism not unlike that of Edvard Grieg. His cadences refuse to follow traditional voice-leadings (leading-tone doesn't resolve upwards) and he explores radical harmonic extensions that underly an undeniably simple melody. His repertoire for wind band is particularly well-known and perhaps Grainger pays an unexpected homage t...
Who knew happy birthday could be so beautiful?
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Takashi Yoshimatsu's reharmonisation of Happy Birthday in his "Romance on the birthday" is a lovely and intimate gem of his unusually beautiful harmonic language. Appoggiaturas in the original arrangement are treated as harmony notes (m.73 note B) and original harmony notes become extended harmonies with unexpected chords (m.77 A F# D over G major). These harmonic choices often create repeated ...
Strauss' Earth-shattering Dissonance
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It really isn't a hyperbole. This chord in the final scene of Strauss' Salome Op.54 has been called "the most sickening chord in all opera". One of my teachers constantly recalls the moment he'd heard this chord live and it had literally shocked him out of his sleep. I myself recently went to watch Salome in Paris and I can testify to the incredibly horrifying effect this chord alone can produc...
The profound beauty in this early Ravel piece
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Ravel’s Pavane pour une infante défunte hints towards a slow processional dance in Europe during the Renaissance. His teacher at the time, Gabriel Fauré, had written a Pavane as well in 1887 and we see certain similarities in terms of texture and modal harmony. Ravel himself also admitted to a strong influence from Chabrier at the time and we see this particularly in his use of unprepared disso...
This angelic yet sinister oboe theme
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Another one of Tchaikovsky's intriguing melodies, where so much is achieved with so little. Here, the blend between folk melody and classical tradition is so seamless that it creates something infinitely iconic and recognisable. Tchaikovsky's orchestration in Swan Lake is minimal but effective, with a reedy oboe solo over a glimmering texture of string tremolos which to me evokes an image of gh...
Schumann's poetic masterpiece
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Divine inspiration and masterful technique come together in Schumann's Träumerei, op15 no7, to create a short but incredibly poetic masterpiece. Perhaps it's the childlike simplicity and innocence which gives it such charm and accessibility but upon careful analysis, the concise and detailed construction reveals itself as integral to the musical discourse. Schumann essentially only has one melo...
How to harmonise a melody like a romantic composer (part 3)
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A short tutorial on harmonising a funeral march theme in the style of a romantic composer. Of course, the last version doesn't have to be definitive and isn't certainly the best one; it's up to you to find which variation suits your aesthetic the most. But all the techniques I've shown are definitely worth considering and studying to have them when needed. Melody fragment taken from 300 texts e...
Schubert's otherworldly adagio
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Schubert's Quintet in C major is a strange piece for a couple of reasons. It deviates from the traditional string quintet of 2 violins, 2 violas and 1 cello, opting instead to double the cellos instead of the violas, which gives it a deeper, perhaps even darker sonority. In this movement, we see how Schubert takes advantage of this disposition, effectively creating a string trio in the middle w...
Skylar Lim - Il volo degli angeli (2023)
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Performed by Ensemble Court-Circuit, Il volo degli angeli for 9 instruments (2023) Jérémie FÈVRE (flute), Hélène DEVILLENEUVE (oboe), Pierre DUTRIEU (clarinet), Vincent DAVID (saxophone), Hugues VIALLON (horn), Alexandra GREFFIN-KLEIN (violin 1), Aya KONO (violin 2), Laurent CAMATTE (viola), Julien DECOIN (cello), Jean DEROYER (conductor) Il volo degli angeli was written as a fascination of ang...
Schoenberg's revolutionary piano piece
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Schoenberg's op.11 represents one of his very first essays in atonality despite the influence of late German romanticism remaining strongly imprinted in the aesthetic of this piece. One could almost compare the opening of the piece to the prelude of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde or even the first few bars of the Adagio in Bruckner's 9th, not to mention the intensive motivic development of the thi...
The fantastically strange opening to Chopin's ballade
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This opening has fascinated me for the longest time and when my teacher mentioned in passing that it was in fact outlining the Neapolitan sixth chord, it pretty much blew my mind. Couple that with the fact that it's in monophony, doubled in octaves between the hands and seems to vanish into nothingness and you'd have an exceptionally bold but poetic decision by the composer, no doubt in service...
So I wrote a lied in the style of Schumann...
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I recently had to write a lied in the style of Schumann as part of my imitative writing class at the conservatory. Performed by me at the piano and Pierre-Baptiste Parietti as the countertenor. Dedicated to Rin Murakami. I used a poem by Karl Friedrich Herrosee, "Ich liebe dich" and the translation is as follows: I love you as you love me, At evening and at morning, No day there was when you an...
Chopin's loveliest melody
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Chopin's loveliest melody
The exquisite beauty in Brahms' violin melodies
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The exquisite beauty in Brahms' violin melodies
The apocalyptic darkness of Bruckner's 8
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The apocalyptic darkness of Bruckner's 8
The rustic simplicity of a repeated note
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The rustic simplicity of a repeated note
The heart-melting cello melody you never knew about
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The heart-melting cello melody you never knew about
Grieg's little romantic masterpiece
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Grieg's little romantic masterpiece
Schubert's achingly beautiful melody
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Schubert's achingly beautiful melody
The crazy harmonic complexity in Ravel's forlane
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The crazy harmonic complexity in Ravel's forlane
Debussy's strangest prelude
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Debussy's strangest prelude
The breathless melancholy of Brahms 4th
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The breathless melancholy of Brahms 4th
Skylar Lim - Mia
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Skylar Lim - Mia
why i think this is chopin's darkest nocturne
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why i think this is chopin's darkest nocturne
how liszt creates a great melody with a single note
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how liszt creates a great melody with a single note
schumann's heavenly cello melody
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schumann's heavenly cello melody

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  • @freeguy77
    @freeguy77 6 годин тому

    His Great Symphony #9 was my favorite, and first heard it in Music Appreciation class, along with many other composers' best classical pieces. Beethoven's 7th is another of my favorite symphonic pieces!

  • @Nooticus
    @Nooticus День тому

    Really nice analysis but this specific recording/performance is pretty inaccurate, things aren’t exactly in time with each other

  • @rafaxnc8897
    @rafaxnc8897 День тому

    HWHAT IS THE NAME OF THIS PIECE?!!?

  • @apolity
    @apolity День тому

    0:33 best part

  • @simmo303
    @simmo303 2 дні тому

    Nowhere near. Plenty more from Schubert.

  • @nosiebangchan
    @nosiebangchan 2 дні тому

    Why the sheets make it look complicate d 😭

  • @daclarinetboii
    @daclarinetboii 3 дні тому

    Broo I played this at my audition a couple of months ago! I was just hoping to find some random fantastic Brahms but I stumbled upon this and I don’t regret it lol. Brahmstiful. Edit: personally I don’t like this clarinet interpretation though

  • @KeenBulldozer
    @KeenBulldozer 3 дні тому

    why are the crotchets not beamed on the vocal lines?

    • @skylarlimex
      @skylarlimex 3 дні тому

      You mean the quavers? Beaming used to be a visual indication of melismatic treatment - which is to say different notes on the same syllable. In today's practice I'm not sure if they still beam only for melismas.

    • @KeenBulldozer
      @KeenBulldozer День тому

      @@skylarlimex Yes that's what I meant! Thanks!

  • @richardgmitchell
    @richardgmitchell 3 дні тому

    What melody ?

  • @MarshallArtz007
    @MarshallArtz007 3 дні тому

    Try the alternate version for viola. This performance is with Antoine Tamestit and is beautifully recorded: ua-cam.com/video/0NTb-96vrUc/v-deo.htmlsi=0Q7bnAN9irEsfIHU 😎🎹

  • @jackeris1302
    @jackeris1302 3 дні тому

    I love this song, it’s so cute

  • @2milk162
    @2milk162 4 дні тому

    Great video as always. Could you do a video on any of scriabins works Thanks.

  • @twanswagtencomposer
    @twanswagtencomposer 4 дні тому

    PApapa

  • @d.o.7784
    @d.o.7784 4 дні тому

    Opera, as great as it is, is a dead art.

    • @replyhere590
      @replyhere590 15 годин тому

      Dead, kind of like vinyl LPs, huh?

  • @jobebrian
    @jobebrian 4 дні тому

    Excellent. But the Clarinet Quintet from the same, late stage of his career is even more stunning.

  • @jobebrian
    @jobebrian 4 дні тому

    Excellent. But the Clarinet Quintet from the same, late stage of his career is even more stunning.

  • @peter5.056
    @peter5.056 4 дні тому

    UwU

  • @danielmatthew715
    @danielmatthew715 4 дні тому

    Awesome! More Mozart pls :)

  • @paulosergiopessoademoura2818

    Genial!!!!

  • @Mazurking
    @Mazurking 4 дні тому

    This makes me want to start listening to opera. Any suggestions?

    • @skylarlimex
      @skylarlimex 4 дні тому

      I'm not a big opera buff myself but the classics like Puccini's La Bohème and Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro are great places to start.

    • @Mazurking
      @Mazurking 4 дні тому

      @@skylarlimex Thanks!

    • @JawadHamadani
      @JawadHamadani 3 дні тому

      Bizet's Carmen

    • @rossanopinelli5150
      @rossanopinelli5150 3 дні тому

      Mozart's Don Giovanni.

    • @limepour3004
      @limepour3004 3 дні тому

      And Ravel's L'Enfant et les Sortilèges

  • @mustuploadtoo7543
    @mustuploadtoo7543 4 дні тому

    mozart

  • @cgwilliamsjazzpiano3000
    @cgwilliamsjazzpiano3000 4 дні тому

    I'm not deeply into classical, but as a child would watch the Ingmar Bergman production of this on VHS tape over and over. It is a delightful opera that even a little kid can appreciate and in some way understand.

    • @skylarlimex
      @skylarlimex 4 дні тому

      Funny you mention that, I'm writing a few piano pieces based on Bergman's trilogy

    • @cgwilliamsjazzpiano3000
      @cgwilliamsjazzpiano3000 4 дні тому

      @@skylarlimex A most worthy subject!

  • @thesnakej-hopewassoscaredo3137

    your channel is where i come when I'm looking for new pieces! Keep up the good work! Could you do a video on Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto 1 or any of the Rachmaninoff Moment Musicauxes?

    • @skylarlimex
      @skylarlimex 4 дні тому

      Thanks! I have indeed considered the Tchaikovsky...

  • @skylarlimex
    @skylarlimex 4 дні тому

    Unfortunately, I couldn't find a good piano score with the translation in English so I settled for this one instead. Here's a translation I found if anyone needs it: Papageno: Pa-Pa-Pa-Pa-Pa-Papagena! Papagena: Pa-Pa-Pa-Pa-Pa-Papageno! Papageno: Are you mine now? Papagena: Yes, i am yours now! Papageno: So be my dear wife! Papagena: Well, so be the pair of my heart! Papageno & Papagena: What joy will that be when the gods consider us give our love children so dear little children! Papageno: First, a little Papageno Papagena: Then, a little Papageno Papageno: Then another Papageno! Papagena: Then another Papagena! Papageno: Papageno! Papagena: Papagena! Papageno & Papagena: It is the highest of emotions, if many, many Papagena/Papageno the parents' blessings will be!

    • @felixparlasca6342
      @felixparlasca6342 20 годин тому

      It‘s funny in the piano score is a big mistake though: it says „der Eltern Sorgen“ at the end, which means the parents‘ sorrows. Correct (and sung) is „der Eltern Segen“, which is the parent’s blessings (As you translated it correctly). Fantastic Video and explanations by the way! :-)

  • @homers7777
    @homers7777 5 днів тому

    Wont be saying that when your 90 and have someone else wipe your bum

  • @tr7938
    @tr7938 5 днів тому

    You videos are stupid click bait.

  • @fabienlamour3644
    @fabienlamour3644 5 днів тому

    No melody there.

  • @berkefeil5646
    @berkefeil5646 5 днів тому

    Sorry but Brahms can be terrible, like this

    • @LeifD958
      @LeifD958 5 днів тому

      This is the BEST of Brahms,- alongside his piano sonata no. 3 op. 5, and both his piano concertos. It’s the pic of humanity. If this second movement was the only thing Brahms ever wrote, he would be regarded as one of the greatest composers ever.

    • @berkefeil5646
      @berkefeil5646 5 днів тому

      @@LeifD958if you said something like this about a good Beethoven or Mozart piece I’d completely agree, but Brahms… I mean, I just don’t feel it

  • @RaptorT1V
    @RaptorT1V 6 днів тому

    О, это же Такаши Йошиматсу! Я год назад на его 70-летие сделал фортепианную аранжировку его произведения для гитары "Romance for tree"

  • @tmybglr
    @tmybglr 6 днів тому

    I recently had my birthday and this made me tear up, at 1am

  • @lupash
    @lupash 6 днів тому

    I didn’t get what you mean by Brahms’ harmonic ingenuity.

  • @SoonEnough
    @SoonEnough 6 днів тому

    Yo dude, is there a longer version? Please? I wanna learn it. Thanks 😍

  • @debussy69
    @debussy69 6 днів тому

    I prefer it played on viola

  • @coreylapinas1000
    @coreylapinas1000 7 днів тому

    I already forgot it though....

  • @BaconGull
    @BaconGull 7 днів тому

    constantly changing time signatures... exactly what i like!

  • @oels6160
    @oels6160 8 днів тому

    In my opinion calling the "Chopin Chord" a 13 chord is quite anachronistic. By this time this chord was considered an unresolved appogiatura of the 5th often called "add 6th". It's only in the early 20th century that composers and jazz musiscians started calling this note a 13th because it was no longer considered an unresolved tension in order to create expressivness but rather a true extenstion note of the chord in order to create color.

  • @bryancongerclarinet
    @bryancongerclarinet 8 днів тому

    I believe the bass pitches on beat 2s are all anticipations of the bar that follows them: m. 1, then, is Ab major (with an implied 5-6 motion coming from the tenor's F--a motif that comes from the opening of the first movement of this sonata, by the way), and the bass Bb on beat 2 actually belongs to bar 2, where it forms a Bb minor harmony. Throughout this opening, it's the clarinet and upper voices of the piano giving the harmony, and the bass creating the dissonances by way of anticipations. The Roman numerals, if one were forced to supply them, then, are fairly simple and changing once every bar: I (5-6), ii7, V7, I (with that 6 still there). But it's this blurring effect between the clarinet and bass that gives this opening so much of its beauty and should, I think, be reflected in an analysis. The double neighbor figure in m. 5 and 6 of the piano, by the way, comes from the opening of the second sonata (and it appears in the first movement of this sonata as well). Similar material appears in both Brahms sonatas, as though they formed one giant piece.

    • @skylarlimex
      @skylarlimex 8 днів тому

      I did consider this analysis as well, though I opted eventually for hearing the upper harmonies as suspensions instead. Anticipations have quite a tricky definition: they always have a small rhythmic value and rarely occur in the bass precisely because if they do we hear them as the new harmony instead. But it is true that it helps us see the underlying harmonies per bar.

    • @bryancongerclarinet
      @bryancongerclarinet 6 днів тому

      @@skylarlimex Yes, it's very bizarre either way! I've found this opening can be magical if I ask (politely!) the pianist to delay slightly the bass pitch so that it sounds as though it belongs to the following bar. (Andras Schiff actually plays it this way in his recording with Jorg Widmann.) I think the reason I hear the melody as the stable part of the ensemble is that this melody appears throughout the sonatas: it occurs twice in the opening piano theme of the first movement, opening of the second movement, opening of the second movement of the Eb sonata, etc. (it also appears in the opening of the clarinet trio, the a minor intermezzo from op. 76, and many other places--you can scavenger hunt it throughout Brahms's work). This melody, in fact, comes from the final chorale from the St. Matthew Passion and seems to have become almost an obsession for Brahms. From years of playing these sonatas, this melody has become an ear worm: to me, it sounds like a given and the other parts are draped around it, not unlike a lied-setting of a folk tune.

    • @skylarlimex
      @skylarlimex 5 днів тому

      @@bryancongerclarinet that's indeed a very interesting recording by Widmann! Thanks for sharing

  • @derycktrahair8108
    @derycktrahair8108 8 днів тому

    Sus4 to 1 as an ending? ..at a party no-one will hear it, they will cheer & toast the Birthday one.. It's all very clever but remember that we play to PEOPLE who love ability but hate a smart alec.

    • @skylarlimex
      @skylarlimex 8 днів тому

      No one's being a smart alec, it's just a piece. I've played it for lots of people on their birthdays and seeing everyone's face light up as the birthday theme creeps in at the end is just absolute gold. Definitely try it some time.

  • @geopaxo
    @geopaxo 8 днів тому

    I can’t lie I much prefer the version with horn solo

    • @skylarlimex
      @skylarlimex 8 днів тому

      Coming from a hornist, I can't say I'm surprised

  • @Just_Json
    @Just_Json 8 днів тому

    Who watched this in 2x speed? 👇🏻

  • @bazingacurta2567
    @bazingacurta2567 9 днів тому

    This is the strangest Brahms I've ever heard.

    • @skylarlimex
      @skylarlimex 9 днів тому

      I always found the finale of his 3rd symphony to be slightly strange though I never knew why

    • @metacarple
      @metacarple 8 днів тому

      Have a listen to the Three Motets. I genuinely believe that, if they did not have ‘Johannes Brahms’ at the top, no-one would ever peform them.

    • @thinkOfMeAsAClassicalMusician
      @thinkOfMeAsAClassicalMusician 6 днів тому

      @@metacarplewhat opus?

    • @williamstephens9945
      @williamstephens9945 6 днів тому

      ​@@skylarlimexI love the 3rd Symphony

    • @carlhopkinson
      @carlhopkinson День тому

      You should listen to all Brahms chamber music. This is where his unique melodic genius really is on display.

  • @jansz1589
    @jansz1589 9 днів тому

    I don't really like the interrupted cadence at the end, the rest's fine.

  • @biencj
    @biencj 10 днів тому

    Reupload with a jumpscare at the end

    • @skylarlimex
      @skylarlimex 10 днів тому

      Excellent idea

    • @biencj
      @biencj 10 днів тому

      @@skylarlimexThe real hard stuff too, like the old jumpscares where you’re watching a rocking chair rock by itself, and then the with comes outta nowhere

  • @skye.koz6
    @skye.koz6 10 днів тому

    god that suspension just summoned tears

  • @juanblanco3325
    @juanblanco3325 10 днів тому

    Can someone please tell me what do 42 and 64 mean in "V42" and "I64" ?? How is this notation called ? Thanks !

    • @skylarlimex
      @skylarlimex 10 днів тому

      I have a video explaining my harmonic notation

  • @gnome8979
    @gnome8979 10 днів тому

    For those who don't 'get it' I suggest you listen to this version that always hits me in the feels ua-cam.com/video/tY15JZ1iAeQ/v-deo.htmlsi=at6yYhCwFrkprN4t Amihai Grosz playing the version orchestrated by Berio

  • @tobiaspeter6555
    @tobiaspeter6555 10 днів тому

    Why are clarinets always so out of tune?

    • @arielorthmann4061
      @arielorthmann4061 5 днів тому

      I don't know. Not all clarinettists do.

    • @iangreer4585
      @iangreer4585 4 дні тому

      It’s an unfortunate design flaw with the instrument. Acoustically, it’s horrible because of the fact it is cylindrical and you have to cover tone holes a certain way.

    • @nigelhaywood9753
      @nigelhaywood9753 2 дні тому

      They aren’t. The fact that it is a cylindrical tube and only produces the odd-numbered harmonics may give you the impression that it is out of tune but in this case, at least, I can assure that it isn’t.

  • @anonomyss
    @anonomyss 10 днів тому

    If you think this is beautiful, go listen to Cateen's 12 variations of happy birthday.

  • @masantonio8790
    @masantonio8790 11 днів тому

    This piece is also very popular with violists :) It’s quite a bit warmer and more intimate sounding on that iteration. Antoine Tamestit has my favorite performance.

    • @skylarlimex
      @skylarlimex 11 днів тому

      I'll check it out! I was indeed first introduced to the second sonata by a violist

    • @radish1972
      @radish1972 7 днів тому

      Its infinitely better on the clarinet.

    • @masantonio8790
      @masantonio8790 7 днів тому

      @@radish1972 I personally disagree but if you like it better on the clarinet, great.