Brahms Waltz Op 39 No 15
At the New Year\u2019s Eve party my family has been attending for the last \u2026 oh, at least 20 years, we have a tradition of doing waltzes. By \u201cdoing,\u201d I don\u2019t much mean dancing \u2014 sadly, only a few brave souls do that \u2014 but playing them, since it\u2019s a musical crowd and it\u2019s easy to form a pickup group. (It\u2019s another instance of the sort of informal playing together, not playing for, that I wrote about in Comparing Notes.) Waltzes for the new year are a tradition our hosts imported from Austria, and one I\u2019m now importing from their party to my blog.
\n\nOK, you caught me, I already posted one recording for the new year. So now I\u2019ve posted two!
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJohannes Brahms\n\n\n\n\u25b6\ufe0f\nWaltz Op 39 No 15 (in A flat major)\n\n\nPaul Cantrell, piano\n\n\n\n\n\n\u2b07\ufe0f\nDownload\n\n\n(1:42 / 2.4 M)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
This isn\u2019t quite as polished and unique as the previous Brahms recording I posted, I\u2019m afraid, but I hope you\u2019ll overlook that and enjoy the piece. It\u2019s a wonderful little masterpiece of sophisticated simplicity.