Stupenda e meravigliosa sonata.Con la prima sonata di Schumann,rappresentano i punti di riferimento della forma sonata pianistica di tutto l'800.

I really like this piano sonata, especially the andante!

Big error in the finale

great and powerful performance but I must say that I prefer that of Katchen

How have I lived this long without having heard this work? Thank you for posting it!

4:01 to 4:25I swear this could have been written by Ravel

21:40 Sonata Pathetique lol

Brahms did not love to exhibit his works. He is the opposite of Wagner and Liszt, but he captures your soul like Bach and Beethoven. His works are full of counterpoint. He was very strict maester of this art. It is very evident in all his works and obviously his techniques are vey difficult. Simplicity depth but very difficult. He wrote technical exercises for the piano which are a masterpiece..a great genius modesty is his style of life.

Brahms really admired the piano technique of Franz Liszt.He compared his first Piano Sonata as twinkle twinkle little star to Liszt B minor.

The Liszt Sonata is incredibly musically and physically draining to play. My first performance of it in public was a disaster. For whatever reason, Brahms -- even in his most technically challenging works like the Paganini Variations -- fit my hand perfectly.

"Dont Cry for me Argentina"

Eppure ciò che è bello ci si rivela sacro e santo in sé proprio perchè bello

Brahms was 20 when this was first published. Fantastic.

Brahms' earlier pianistic output is among the finest of any composer at the same stage. The sonatas and the Ballades Op.10 are incredible.

omg that transition at 0:59 is otherworldly

Hahaha! Don't cry for me, Argentina :D

Susanne Westenfelder Oh dear! I have not thought about this. You are amazing. I only know is that the first rhythmic feature is as same as "Hammerklavier" sonata by Beethoven.

Hi olla-vagala,"the third was published as Op. 2, and the first two were evidently destroyed (partly because Brahms was called 'The New Mozart' after music critics had heard them)."I'd like to know the source for this statement: I've been working on my bachelor study, and this is an interesting information to put in. Thank you in advance.

This piece’s 1st subject is similar to korean children’s song which is ‘autumn road’.https://youtu.be/wPVVkYSWBpk

KUDOS...AND THEN SOME...in other words: THANK YOU!!!...

08:05 wowwwwwww. Very good piece

The beginning is almost-pure Beethoven plagiat ;D -> HammerKlavier

The beginning is pure Beethoven plagiat ;D -> HammerKlavier

So original, so beautiful, so happy to be a human lol

Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and all your effort and time you put in. 👍👍👍😘😘😘🌹🌹🌹🤗🤗🤗🆒🆒🆒

This piece is like a lucky bag...

Beautiful ! Thank you for posting :)

The beggining is very similar to the Beethoven´s Hammerklvier sonata

Yes, and when someone pointed that out to Brahms, his response was "Any ass can see that!"

0:01 That moment when the quality of a photo from 1860 is better than one from 1974...

I just have to keep rewinding to the end of the scherzo, right at 17:28. That's some of the most chill-inducing music I've ever heard

This first movement start reminds me schubet wander fantasie in C major op.15

Mk Jung it’s more like the Beethoven’s hamreklavier opening .

I (weakly) agree with you.

Amazing work. The ingenious writing is one thing, but this execution, this scherzo is such an earworm thanks to Mr. Roesel, so energetic. I wish you would keep uploading, olla-vogala :)

To me, Brahms has always been such a generous composer without being showy or facile. It's like swimming in a sea of hot chocolate. I love him!

The most underrated sonata in the concert repertoire!

I spoke to a pianist who did not program it because of its length, and fear it would not hold the audience's attention.

Brahms COMPUSO TRES SONATAS ,VARIACIONES PAGANINI PARA PIANO.VALES PARA PIANO,PIEZAS BREVES PARA PIANO,baladas, rapsodias, intermezzos;quibteto para pianotrio para trompa violin y pano

The coda of the first movement has one of the most satisfying cadenzas ever written. It's really like an orgasm.

Cadenza? Is it a cadenza? And which measures specifically; I don't quite understand which area you meant.

Checkmate1138 last three bars

Checkmate1138 I think what he meant was a cadence in the last few bars.

Beethoven's only true heir, in my opinion.

Composer, Gary Noland's "Tempest" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_x_ew2i0e-s --> Lots of influences, Beethoven is one of them. If you like part of his Op.1, I'd highly suggest checking out the rest of his stuff. He's a composer who deserves recognition.

Eh. I'd give that title to Schubert. Listen to his last 3 sonatas and you'll hear a great resemblance to Beethoven's late works

yeah, Schubert is way more Beethovian than Brahms. Sounds almost identical to him at times. But others unmistakably carry the Beethoven gene: Wagner, Liszt, Rachmaninov, Shostakovich, etc

This is the first serious and advanced piece I ever learned. Before that the hardest I had learned was a Chopin's waltz! I spent 4 months on the first movement and a year for the whole sonata, and I don't know if the result was great but I discovered the joys of true interpretation and difficult piano, and the work I provided to learn this has always helped me since then. This piece (especially Peter Rösel's interpretation) has a very important place in my heart

I agree. I am hoping to learn this piece after working through my Beethoven Sonatas

@Mickel Gordon If you can 'hammer' comfortably on the Hammerklavier Brahms Piano Sonatas are just some warming up exercises !

What a supergreat composer! The playing is also great.(But I still prefer Brahms's 'little' piano masterpieces to his piano sonatas.)

Yes, great perfomance, perhaps, but the piano used here...or is it the key, or both, strident and harsh, sharp, except in the soft notes and phrases, curiously on the right hand

12:22-13:05, gorgeously voiced.

Very beautiful! The first sonata I've heard of Brahms was the n°3 in F minor. Beautiful too. Brahms is one of my favourite composers. He was a genius!!

5:16 love it

so chopinian

best song ever

a song has words....this is a composition

What a beautiful masterpiece.

This first Sonata by Brahms is a well crafted work of genius.

Rosel is great in Brahms... Julius Katchen's recording is also wonderful,

How is it that this guy isn't famous? His command of this very demanding score rivals that of Zimerman and Richter, and I find more insight and at times ferocity in his take on the piece. A great pianist whose origin in "East" Germany probably did in his career outside that orbit.

I believe Kissin has made a recording of Brahms's 3rd Sonata.

Uhhhhh... so apparently at some point in my life Peter Rösel stopped being well-known. Can somebody fill me in? I guess I missed it. I was only born in the 70s so maybe I'm too young to have been in on it. Am I just wrong here, or aren't his performances of Brahms' piano works very famous and highly -respected?

Fred Feinberg interesting comments, and a funny profile picture!

Thanks! I use that photo for everything, including my university avatar.

surely more famous than smetana or svendsen

I think you forgot to put the repeat in the 1st movement. :(

+Bob Stewart Who, me? I'm not Peter Rösel, the pianist in this recording... :)

@olla-vogala Okay, now shift it to Peter :)

+Bob Stewart He says "No comment."

+Tal Dobrer Well, I say get PUN-ished.

I've been looking around for some different recordings of Brahms piano music, bought a bunch of different things and not really happy with what I was hearing and then I found this, it's still not perfect but much closer to what I was looking for. I'm not just a yt listener, I now own the CD's. In case anyone was wondering some people who listen to yt actually pay for the music.

+scottbos68 Which is a good thing! You can also buy classical music online from labels nowadays, often even cheaper than CDs and in high quality.

+scottbos68 the solution is to listen to different recordings on Spotify or YT before buying a physical copy of the CD.

+scottbos68 I envy you. I am age 71, retired on a limited budget, and quite unable to afford CDs. And the two local classical music radio stations tend to play a conservative playlist over and over again. So You Tube has become my only source of classical music. The three piano sonatas that Brahms wrote at the start of his career are not played on the radio.

You are very lucky to have TWO classical music stations, even if they play mostly warhorses. I agree with you YT is a boon - almost a miracle. While Brahms already, at 20, expresses his own personality and gifts here, parts of the first movement have the feel of Schumann's Symphonic Etudes - though he has not yet attained the sublimity of that work.

nous sommes si nombreux à remercier youtube pour toute la musique que cette chaîne nous permet d'écouter ,, avec des interprétations multiples , insuffisantes certes mais france musique et radio classique nous passent toujours les mêmes morceaux les mêmes intreprètes , que de découvertes avec youtube et les échanges avec les auditeurs nous permettent d'autres découvertes ,, moi aussi passionné de musique depuis si longtemps je ne pourrais me payer tous les cd auxquels je rêve ,, il m'en faudrait des milliers et il faut savoir que les cd s'usent bien vite contrairement à beaucoup de croyances ,, oui youtube est une bénédiction ,, et je n'ai rien à voir avec cette chaîne ,, sur le site autour du classique vous pourrez échanger vos avis et découvrir des oeuvres et compositeurs fascinants ,, merci encore