Does anyone else thnk Brahms Symphony No. 4 is the most beautiful piece of music they have ever heard?
This piece is such an amazing work. Every movement has a little bit of the last one, and each movement gets progressively more complex. Symphony No. 4 is the most complex of his four, and it just amazes me how he could write such intricate music and still make it beautiful. The more i listen to it, the more i love the call and response type of melodies in IV – Allegro energico e passionato-Piu allegro. Any thoughts?
Well, if you’ll pardon me for saying, you’ve got a good pair of ears on your head, and you’re not shy of using them well, too! 
Not only was the Fourth Brahms’ valediction in symphonic form, but also the apogee of his achievement. And highly characteristically, for the somanieth time he faced down the pair of monkeys that had been sitting on his back all his life: Beethoven the symphonist and Bach the contrapuntalist. To have the sheer nerve to crown your symphonic output with a fourth movement that is a highly wrought passacaglia — a continuously evolving set of variations on a bass line that is heard at the outset and never ceases to be heard while the variations happen seamlessly all around it, all the time — which in itself had never been done before in so strict a manner to form a symphonic finale. Hmm, if you’re going to prove a point, as much to yourself as to anyone else, you might as well do it as comprehensively as is humanly possible: knock ‘em well and truly dead, you might say… 
I don’t tend to do ‘bests’ and ‘mosts’, but I’ve always admired the Fourth hugely, for its craft, its tremendous courage and the sheer monumental quality of its scale, impeccably executed.
Zuill Bailey and Awadagin Pratt – Brahms Works for Cello and Piano
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