Brahms is a remarkable melody maker in addition to renovating classical composition technique.
One of his melodies most impressive for me is this 3rd movement of his No 3 ymphony.
It was featured as the main theme of the movie, "Say Goodby Again", after the novel, "Aimez-vous Brahms?" by Francoise Sagan. Building up a simple audio system. 6BM8 single stereo amplifier with a pair of coaxial speakers in homebrew speaker box, I have started listening a lot of music. Yes, I was mostly indulged in movie music at first those days. It has not taken me a long time to start journey into classical music, though. I had not known this music from that movement of Brahms' symphony. I have never seen the movie itself, either. I was in the low teen days.
The university orchestra I joined as a cellist was practising this symphony. At the summer camp I was pratising cello outside as a beginner, I often listened to this music. The melody is started by celli followed by 1st violins. Cello part sings the counter melody to the 1st violin, which is even more impressively beautiful than the front melody. Listners are totally fallen in love with this melody when it is reproduced by Horn and then by strings.
At the summer camp, the melody was coming on a breeze blown down from the mountain nearby. It has ushered in the early fall.
An unforgettable melody for me.
A pianist Luke Faulkner has arranged it to solo piano. This rendition is also a memorable one. I am sure Faulkner has been fascinated with this music himself. This must be composed by Brahms with piano in this way.
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