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Brand-new budget-price recordings which can rub shoulders with the best are rarer than one imagines but this fine new Brahms disc probably comes into that category. Finding a recommendable Brahms... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010
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Gramophone Magazine
March 2007
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London Philharmonic Orchestra Marin Alsop Recorded: 21 - 22 March 2005 Recording Venue: Blackheath Concert Hall, London, UK London Philharmonic Orchestra Marin Alsop Recorded: 22 and 23 April 2006 Recording Venue: The Colosseum, Town Hall, Watford, UK Show 7 remaining tracks for Brahms: Variations on a theme by Haydn for orchestra, Op. 56a... Hide 7 tracks for Brahms: Variations on a theme by Haydn for orchestra, Op. 56a...
2010
Brand-new budget-price recordings which can rub shoulders with the best are rarer than one imagines but this fine new Brahms disc probably comes into that category. Finding a recommendable Brahms Third is more difficult than one might suppose. Since Felix Weingartner made his very fine LPO recording in 1938, the number of great, or even successful, Thirds can probably be listed on the fingers of two hands.
Marin Alsop's reading is certainly fine: dark of hue, lyrical and long drawn, though never, even for a moment, comatose. Rhythm is good, articulation keen, phrasing exquisite, the reading's crepuscular colours glowingly realised by the LPO. The reading has a quality of melancholy, a wistfulness crossed with a sense of incipient tragedy, which is almost Elgarian
