In a meeting with the students of the Milan Academy of music, M ° Riccardo Muti tells of the first lesson in the class of Antonino Votto - the video can be found on the internet, and it is the same story reported me many years ago by the famous pianist Antonio Ballista, student of mine and, in his youth, student in the class of Votto too and classmate with Muti- : ...
"the two pattern is like this ... three so ... this is the four pattern ... five depends on the metric ... it's finished ... that's all ... if you ask me how it goes the initial attack of Brahms IV... what kind of sound ... what kind of color ... what kind of phrasing ... I can't teach you this ... "
and then continuing among the ecstatic faces of the students:
"... then guys? what should we do? study the composition, harmony, counterpoint, etc. etc.".
Important words that however do not solve the puzzle of the beginning of Brahms' IV. Let's look if can be a stimulus this video taken from a my American lesson ...
Learn conducting with Ennio Nicotra - Brahms IV the beginning. Let show us the music!
