Brahms: Complete Symphonies

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Release Date: 10th Sep 2021
Catalogue No: SWR19529CD
Label: SWR Music
Length: 3 hours 48 minutes

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Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68

Work length45:37

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Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR
Sir Roger Norrington

I. Un poco sostenuto - Allegro

Track length15:51

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II. Andante sostenuto

Track length8:25

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III. Un poco allegretto e grazioso

Track length4:56

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IV. Adagio - Allegro non troppo, ma con brio

Track length16:25

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Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 73

Work length44:35

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Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR
Sir Roger Norrington

I. Allegro non troppo

Track length21:07

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II. Adagio non troppo

Track length9:00

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III. Allegretto grazioso (Quasi andantino)

Track length5:11

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IV. Allegro con spirito

Track length9:17

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

Work length34:50

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Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR
Sir Roger Norrington

I. Allegro con brio

Track length11:55

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II. Andante

Track length8:40

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III. Poco allegretto

Track length5:49

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IV. Allegro

Track length8:26

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Brahms: Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98

Work length39:03

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Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR
Sir Roger Norrington

I. Allegro non troppo

Track length11:43

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II. Andante moderato

Track length10:28

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III. Allegro giocoso

Track length6:24

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IV. Allegro energico e passionato

Track length10:28

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Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem, Op. 45

Work length1:04:21

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Florian Boesch, Christina Landshamer
SWR Vokalensemble, NDR Chor, Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR
Sir Roger Norrington

I. Selig sind, die da Leid tragen

Track length9:28

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II. Denn alles Fleisch es ist wie Gras

Track length12:34

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III. Herr, lehre doch mich

Track length9:01

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IV. Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen

Track length6:04

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V. Ihr habt nun Traurigkeit

Track length6:52

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VI. Denn wir haben hie keine bleibende Statt

Track length10:32

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VII. Selig sind die Toten

Track length9:50

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Whether in Mozart, Haydn, Bruckner or Brahms, Norrington sought to capture the performance experience of the time, adjusting the orchestra’s size and seating plan to create an authentic sound without vibrato. This reissue of Brahms’ four symphonies, recorded in 2005, continues Norrington’s artistic credo of keeping as close as possible to the composer’s expectations. One of the main features – beside the ‘pure sound’ that uses no vibrato – are the quick tempi. Brahms left no metronome indications in his symphonies. However, the overall timings left by the Brahms conductor Hans von Bülow are so short, compared to those of today, that there can have been no very slow tempi in his interpretations. Norrington also considered one of the many hints left by another admired conductor and friend of Brahms, Fritz Steinbach: “By all means conduct the opening of Brahms’ First Symphony in 6, but it must sound in 2.” A German Requiem is one of Brahms’ most popular compositions. Although the texts are taken from the Bible, the piece is not part of any ecclesiastical-liturgical tradition. Rather, it is aimed – as Brahms himself expressly emphasised – at people “who are in mourning” and unlike the Requiem of the Catholic Mass of the Dead, it is not a liturgical prayer for the souls of the deceased, but rather intended to console the bereaved.

Brahms: Complete Symphonies

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