Brahms: Symphonies Nos 1-4 London Symphony Orchestra & Bernard Haitink

• Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897): Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 68:
• 1 Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 68: I. Un poco sostenuto - Allegro 13:43
• 2 Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 68: II. Andante sostenuto 08:38
• 3 Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 68: III. Un poco allegretto e grazioso 04:42
• 4 Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 68: IV. Adagio - Più andante - Allegro non troppo, ma con brio - Più allegro 17:17
• Tragic Overture, Op. 81:
• 5 Brahms: Tragic Overture, Op. 81 15:06
• Concerto for Violin and Cello in A Minor, Op. 102, "Double Concerto":
• 6 Brahms: Concerto for Violin and Cello in A Minor, Op. 102, "Double Concerto": I. Allegro 17:26
• 7 Brahms: Concerto for Violin and Cello in A Minor, Op. 102, "Double Concerto": II. Andante 07:20
• 8 Brahms: Concerto for Violin and Cello in A Minor, Op. 102, "Double Concerto": III. Vivace non troppo 08:53
• Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 73:
• 9 Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 73: I. Allegro non troppo 16:00
• 10 Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 73: II. Adagio non troppo 09:51
• 11 Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 73: III. Allegretto grazioso (quasi andantino) 05:34
• 12 Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 73: IV. Allegro con spirito 09:39
• Serenade No. 2 in A Major, Op. 16:
• 13 Brahms: Serenade No. 2 in A Major, Op. 16: I. Allegro moderato 08:12
• 14 Brahms: Serenade No. 2 in A Major, Op. 16: II. Scherzo. Vivace - Trio 02:47
• 15 Brahms: Serenade No. 2 in A Major, Op. 16: III. Adagio non troppo 07:19
• 16 Brahms: Serenade No. 2 in A Major, Op. 16: IV. Quasi menuetto - Trio 05:17
• 17 Brahms: Serenade No. 2 in A Major, Op. 16: V. Rondo. Allegro 05:46
• Symphony No. 3 in F Major, Op. 90:
• 18 Brahms: Symphony No. 3 in F Major, Op. 90: I. Allegro con brio 14:31
• 19 Brahms: Symphony No. 3 in F Major, Op. 90: II. Andante 08:58
• 20 Brahms: Symphony No. 3 in F Major, Op. 90: III. Poco allegretto 06:48
• 21 Brahms: Symphony No. 3 in F Major, Op. 90: IV. Allegro - Un poco sostenuto 09:24
• Symphony No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 98:
• 22 Brahms: Symphony No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 98: I. Allegro non troppo 13:20
• 23 Brahms: Symphony No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 98: II. Andante moderato 11:28
• 24 Brahms: Symphony No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 98: III. Allegro giocoso 06:17
• 25 Brahms: Symphony No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 98: IV. Allegro energico e passionato 10:12
• Total Runtime 04:04:28

Info for Brahms: Symphonies Nos 1-4

For a long time, the composer Johannes Brahms was regarded as the epitome of the conservative who, in contrast to the representatives of the Wagner and Liszt successors, fell back on old forms that supposedly no longer had any life. In fact, Brahms was a profound connoisseur of the music of the past, right down to the polyphonists of the 16th century. He made use of old types of form, such as the variation and the passacaglia associated with it. He adopted the traditional four-movement structure of the classical symphony and its sequence of movements, respected the scheme of the sonata movement and hardly went beyond Beethoven in his instrumentation. Nevertheless, the view that Brahms was a "reactionary", as espoused by the Wagner circle from Nietzsche up to Richard Strauss, is untenable. This was seen by none other than Arnold Schoenberg, who in his famous article "Brahms, der Fortschrittliche" (Brahms, the Progressive) (1933 or 1947) recognised the fundamental difference that separates the composer, above all the symphonist Brahms, from the masters of the classical sonata and symphony.

London Symphony Orchestra
Bernard Haitink, conductor
Gordan Nikolitch, violin
Tim Hugh, cello

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