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Brahms: The Symphonies

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Gewandhausorchester, Riccardo Chailly

Brahms: The Symphonies

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Dynamic and dramatic readings, faithful to Brahms's intentions. Powerfully conceived, they are rhythmically alert, without an ounce of undue sentiment and never for an instant losing sight of...

BBC Music Magazine, December 20135 out of 5 stars

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Brahms: The Symphonies

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Gewandhausorchester, Riccardo Chailly

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Dynamic and dramatic readings, faithful to Brahms's intentions. Powerfully conceived, they are rhythmically alert, without an ounce of undue sentiment and never for an instant losing sight of...

BBC Music Magazine, December 20135 out of 5 stars

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Following the 2011 landmark Beethoven cycle, Riccardo Chailly returns with a recording of the complete Brahms symphonies and orchestral works including the overtures and Haydn Variations.

Rarities include world premiere recordings of two piano intermezzi orchestrated by Paul Klengel (brother of the Gewandhaus’ long-standing principal cellist Julius Klengel); the 9 Liebeslieder waltzes; the original first performance version of the Andante of Symphony No. 1 and the even rarer revised opening of the Fourth Symphony.

Chailly has radically rethought his approach to these works, re-examining the scores and returning to the recorded interpretations of a generation of conductors alive during Brahms’ lifetime, principally Felix Weingartner and one of his Gewandhaus predecessors Bruno Walter.

Contents and tracklist

Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68
Work length43:51
1. Un poco sostenuto - Allegro - Meno allegro
Track length15:26
2. Andante sostenuto
Track length8:21
3. Un poco allegretto e grazioso
Track length4:24
4. Adagio - Piu andante - Allegro non troppo, ma con brio - Piu allegro
Track length15:40
Brahms: Symphony No. 3 in F major, Op. 90
Work length34:20
1. Allegro con brio - Un poco sostenuto - Tempo I
Track length11:43
2. Andante
Track length8:16
3. Poco allegretto
Track length6:06
4. Allegro
Track length8:15
Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 73
Work length40:12
1. Allegro non troppo
Track length17:48
2. Adagio non troppo - L'istesso tempo, ma grazioso
Track length8:26
3. Allegretto grazioso ( Quasi andantino) - Presto ma non assai
Track length5:06
4. Allegro con spirito
Track length8:52
Brahms: Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98
Work length38:41
1. Allegro non troppo
Track length11:56
2. Andante moderato
Track length10:42
3. Allegro giocoso - Poco meno presto - Tempo I
Track length5:54
4. Allegro energico e passionato - Più allegro
Track length9:23
1. Alternative opening
Track length0:46
Brahms: Tragic Overture, Op. 81
Work length12:45
Excerpt,Brahms: Fantasies (7 piano pieces), Op. 116
Work length4:41
No.4 - Intermezzo in E major
Track length4:41
Excerpt,Brahms: Intermezzi (3), Op. 117
Work length4:49
No.1 - Intermezzo in E flat major
Track length4:49
Brahms: Variations on a theme by Haydn for orchestra, Op. 56a 'St Anthony Variations'
Work length16:42
Theme: "Chorale St. Antoni"
Track length1:54
Variation I: Poco più animato
Track length1:13
Variation II: Più vivace
Track length0:53
Variation III: Con moto
Track length1:39
Variation IV: Andante con moto
Track length1:55
Variation V: Vivace
Track length0:50
Variation VI: Vivace
Track length1:04
Variation VII: Grazioso
Track length2:30
Variation VIII: Presto non troppo
Track length0:59
Finale: Andante
Track length3:45
Brahms: Liebesliederwalzer for piano with 4 Hands, Op. 52a
Work length6:58
No.1
Track length1:11
No.2
Track length0:43
No.4
Track length0:42
No.6
Track length2:40
No.5
Track length1:42
Brahms: Neue Liebeslieder Waltzer, Op.65 - Orchestral Version
Work length1:25
No.9
Track length1:25
Brahms: Liebesliederwalzer for piano with 4 Hands, Op. 52a
Work length4:32
No.11
Track length0:52
No.8
Track length1:26
No.9
Track length2:14
Excerpt,Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68
Work length8:22
1. Andante
Track length8:22
Brahms: Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80
Work length9:23
Brahms: Hungarian Dance No. 1 in G minor
Work length2:53
Brahms: Hungarian Dance No. 3 in F major
Work length2:09
Brahms: Hungarian Dance No.10 in F Major
Work length1:53

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Awards and reviews

December 2013

Dynamic and dramatic readings, faithful to Brahms's intentions. Powerfully conceived, they are rhythmically alert, without an ounce of undue sentiment and never for an instant losing sight of the scores' rock-solid architecture. The Gewandhaus players reward him with magnificent playing, alert and sumptuously rich in sound.
5 out of 5 stars

26th October 2013

There’s not a whiff of Germanic stodginess, but nor do you feel the music is being unnaturally pushed. Chailly’s tempi, faster than 20th century tradition and always consistent within themselves, bring out the “classical” in Brahms, and the Leipzigers’ performances – wonderfully lithe as well as meltingly lyrical – are a tonic.
5 out of 5 stars

14th October 2013

The overriding impression I got from these performances was of Chailly wanting to blow away the cobwebs, to set aside tradition and to come up with something that sounded different.

17th November 2013

Chailly achieves a refreshing clarity and vividness...Sometimes, I feel, clarity is achieved at the cost of lightening the bass too much. All in all, though, these are richly stimulating performances.
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