Brahms: Symphony No. 3

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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 More…

Release Date: 2nd Jan 2007
Catalogue No: 8557430
Label: Naxos
Length: 55 minutes

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March 2007

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Brahms: Symphony No. 3 in F major, Op. 90

Work length36:40

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$10.35

London Philharmonic Orchestra
Marin Alsop
Recorded: 21 - 22 March 2005
Recording Venue: Blackheath Concert Hall, London, UK

I. Allegro con brio - Un poco sostenuto - Tempo I

Track length13:09

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$3.85

II. Andante

Track length9:04

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$2.60

III. Poco Allegretto

Track length5:49

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$1.30

IV. Allegro

Track length8:38

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$2.60

Brahms: Variations on a theme by Haydn for orchestra, Op. 56a 'St Anthony Variations'

Work length19:11

$10.00

$13.00

London Philharmonic Orchestra
Marin Alsop
Recorded: 22 and 23 April 2006
Recording Venue: The Colosseum, Town Hall, Watford, UK

Thema, "Chorale St. Antoni": Andante

Track length2:08

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$1.30

Variation 1: Poco piu animato

Track length1:24

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Variation 2: Piu vivace

Track length0:56

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Variation 3: Con moto

Track length1:59

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Variation 4: Andante con moto

Track length2:26

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Variation 5: Vivace

Track length0:56

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Variation 6: Vivace

Track length1:18

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Variation 7: Grazioso

Track length3:10

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Variation 8: Presto non troppo

Track length1:00

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Finale: Andante

Track length3:54

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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 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 (Elgar's fascination with the piece is well attested).
Readings such as Furtwängler's and Sanderling's, which are more inclined to tower and course, may not have allowed themselves to be overtopped by the St Antoni Variations, yet there is something rather wonderful about the transition we have here from dark to light. It is a long time since we had a performance of the Variations as well grounded and as keenly profiled as this. Winds are splendidly to the fore: skirling flutes, songful oboes, grumbling descants on the horns 'in deep B'. It is, above all, a reading of great character: the horn-led sixth variation a burgherly jaunt, the seventh variation a handsome galliard, the finale a Meistersinger- like revel.

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

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