Brahms Symphony No. 4

Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast

Joshua Weilerstein

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🗓️ 8 September 2022

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to Season 9 of Sticky Notes! We're starting with a bang this season with Brahms' incomparable 4th symphony. This symphony takes the listener on a journey that unexpectedly ends in a legendarily dramatic and stormy way. What would compel a composer like Brahms to write an ending like this? Was it a requiem for his place in music? For Vienna? For Europe? Or was it the logical conclusion to a minor key bassline he stole from a Bach Cantata? This is the eternal question when it comes to Brahms - logic or emotion? Well, usually the answer is a bit of both, and today we're going to go through this remarkable piece with all of this in mind. Join us!

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Sticky Notes, the Classical Music Podcast. My name is Joshua Weilerstein,
0:12.0	I'm a conductor, and I'm the Music Director of the Phoenix Orchestra of Boston. This
0:16.2	podcast is for anyone who loves classical music, works in the field, where it's just getting
0:20.6	ready to dive into this amazing world of incredible music. Before we get started, I want to
0:25.1	thank my new Patreon sponsors Ruth, Bruce, Veronica, R, Brian, Alan, Youngwin, Beth, Randy,
0:33.6	Jeffrey, Thomas, Andrea, Stephen K, Justin, Stephen A, Andrew, David, Johnny, Olivier, Bill,
0:42.4	Ari, Rudy, and all of my other Patreon sponsors for making season nine possible. If you'd like
0:48.7	to support the show, please head over to patreon.com slash Sticky Notes podcast. And if you are a fan
0:54.1	of the show, please just take a moment to give us a rating or review on Apple podcasts.
0:58.0	Every rating or review helps more people find the show, and it is greatly appreciated.
1:03.2	Welcome to the premiere of season nine of the show. I've just come back from an amazing month
1:09.7	off in the US visiting seven national parks in just a few weeks. I'm also volunteering in an
1:16.0	animal sanctuary. It was just really an amazing experience, unforgettable, and always. But now
1:22.3	right back to work, I'm in Munich conducting the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in the ARD
1:28.2	competition. This is a big competition in Europe. The instrument list changes every year. So this
1:33.5	year is the flute, trombone, and piano competition. I've learned 10 different concertos for this
1:40.1	competition. We're all going to be performing a few of them, but of course you have to be ready for
1:44.0	all of the different competitors and their choices. So today I will be conducting the flute
1:49.9	finals with Inar Englins, flute concerto, and Marc Andre del Bobby's flute concerto. It's really
1:56.0	been a great experience already, and I'm going to be here for the rest of the week. For today,
2:01.2	we are going to start the season with a bang with Brahms's fourth symphony. This show I tried
2:07.0	in a way to meld a lot of the different things that I do on this show, which is to do detailed
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