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Brahms Symphony No. 1

Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast

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Brahms's Pizzicato

Brahms tells the orchestra to speed up as if our hearts begin to race. Two times Brahms brings the orchestra back to its feet with a kind of boiling rage. But each time the music rises it is smashed down again, until the timpani violently tear apart the fabric of the orchestra and all seems lost. This devastation is followed by that same pizzicato that served as a warning in the third movement. It starts almost catatonically, completely broken, until it seems to rise up and be awakened by something. The tempo does not remain stable; this is both incredibly dramatic and incredibly revolutionary music.

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