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Brahms: Piano Works (Klavierstücke Op. 76, Intermezzi Op. 117, etc.)

Adam Laloum

Classical - Released January 18, 2011 | Mirare

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Brahms: The Symphonies

Johannes Brahms

Classical - Released April 21, 2017 | BSO Classics

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Brahms: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3 & Academic Festival Overture

Otto Klemperer

Classical - Released June 2, 2023 | Warner Classics

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Brahms: Symphonies Nos 1-4, Piano Quartet No. 1 (Orch. Schoenberg)

Luzerner Sinfonieorchester

Classical - Released April 7, 2023 | Warner Classics

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This is the debut recording with the Luzerner Sinfonieorchester by conductor Michael Sanderling, who recently ascended to the orchestra's podium as of 2023 when the album appeared. A set of Brahms symphonies, a crowded marketplace slot in the extreme, might seem a bold move in these circumstances, but nobody can accuse Sanderling of merely retreading others' steps. His Brahms is broad, slow, and detailed, seemingly opening the works into an expanded view. One attraction here, and one that could well bring buyers to the set on its own, is the rare Arnold Schoenberg orchestration of Brahms' Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op. 25, that concludes the album. Although all the melodic material in the work is Brahms', the work is quite characteristic of Schoenberg in its rich, brash orchestration. Schoenberg, in explaining why he made this version of a Brahms chamber work, said, "It is always very badly played, because the better the pianist, the louder he plays, and you hear nothing from the strings. I wanted once to hear everything, and this I achieved." That statement might serve as well as a general characterization of Sanderling's symphony treatments here. All of his tempos are well on the slow side. The Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98, clocks in at well over 46 minutes, perhaps six minutes slower than average for the work. The rest are similarly measured, with exposition repeats adding to the overall heft. Sanderling fills the spaces with orchestral detail. Sample the opening movement of the Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68, where the slow introduction is atomized into small gestures that do, in his reading, have their parts to play in the music that follows. However, the big tunes, in this symphony's finale and elsewhere, lose some of their impact; the long line is not quite long enough to sustain them. Sanderling is probably at his best in the Symphony No. 3 in F major, Op. 90, with its compact thematic blocks in which he finds unsuspected layers. This new Brahms, also benefiting from the spacious acoustic of the new Orchesterhaus Luzerner Sinfonieorchester, certainly commands attention.© James Manheim /TiVo
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Brahms: Symphony No. 1 & Tragic Overture

Gewandhausorchester Leipzig

Symphonies - Released September 25, 2020 | PentaTone

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Herbert Blomstedt, the honorary head of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra to which he was musical director for six years, is still active at the ripe old age of 93. Recorded in 2019, this new interpretation of Brahms’ Symphonie no.1 was conceived by Blomstedt, a devout Christian, spontaneously in wake of current times. “Rarely - he writes on the title page of the first chapter to this new integral - have we had more need for such light than today, when the entire world risks losing its soul”. In fact, the great American conductor of Swedish origin has moulded this interpretation into a humanist perspective that brings Brahms closer to Schubert. The work is gentle and calm with a lyricism akin to a lied. The Gewandhaus Orchestra plays like an immense chamber ensemble, giving this work an atypical tone in which its more rebellious moments seem to be smoothed out.   From this perspective, Brahms sounds somewhat Beethovian, particularly in how the Andante sostenuto is treated as it takes on the form of great love song calling for the unity of all men with an expressionism that is not far off the Adagio of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. This recording is a great moment of live music captured exquisitely by the excellent technical team at Pentatone. The tragic opening, one of the high points of Brahms’ symphonic oeuvre curiously takes on an allure of nobility and classicism as if to quell the tensions that Herbert Blomstedt dreads so much in this world. © François Hudry/Qobuz
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Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 68

Charles Munch

Classical - Released September 16, 2016 | Sony Classical

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Brahms: The Symphonies

Christoph Eschenbach

Symphonic Music - Released September 24, 2021 | Berlin Classics

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Brahms : Symphonies 1-3 & Ouvertures

Eugen Jochum

Classical - Released August 29, 1996 | Warner Classics

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Carlo Maria Giulini Conducts Brahms

Carlo Maria Giulini

Classical - Released April 23, 2021 | Warner Classics

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Brahms: Symphonies, Tragic Overture, Academic Festival Overture & Variations on a Theme by Haydn

Sir John Barbirolli

Classical - Released January 1, 1969 | Warner Classics

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Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 1, Op. 68, Violin Concerto, Op. 77

Le Cercle De L'Harmonie

Symphonies - Released November 19, 2021 | NoMadMusic

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Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem/Symphony No.1

Sergiù Celibidache

Classical - Released June 1, 1999 | Warner Classics

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Chopin: Journal musical de Chopin

Abdel Rahman El Bacha

Classical - Released January 12, 2010 | Mirare

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Brahms: Cello sonatas

Andrei Korobeinikov

Classical - Released January 22, 2016 | Mirare

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Brahms: Symphonies Nos. 1 - 4

Roger Norrington

Classical - Released November 11, 2022 | Warner Classics

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Brahms : Symphonie No. 1 & Variations sur un thème de Haydn (Diapason n°585)

Orchestre De La NDR De Hambourg

Symphonic Music - Released September 28, 2009 | Les Indispensables de Diapason

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Brahms: Symphony No.1 In C Minor, Op.68

Boston Symphony Orchestra

Classical - Released May 27, 1979 | Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

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Johannes Brahms : The Symphonies

Gewandhausorchester Leipzig

Classical - Released October 2, 2003 | Decca Music Group Ltd.

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For most listeners' purposes, Riccardo Chailly's set of Johannes Brahms' four symphonies will seem standard-issue, with respectable and uncontroversial interpretations from an esteemed conductor, and rich and resonant performances by the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. Even in the choice of filler pieces, the set includes the three orchestral works that are usually packaged with the symphonies: the Tragic Overture, the Haydn Variations, and the Academic Festival Overture. However, this set offers welcome suprises and extra value for the purchase. Two orchestral arrangements of the Interludes, Opp. 116 and 117 for piano, are included, along with instrumental versions of a handful of Liebeslieder Waltzes and three of the orchestrated Hungarian Dances, which may be incentives to listeners who are looking for a little more. Also included are Brahms' original version of the Andante of the First Symphony and the alternate opening of the Fourth. But no one should invest in a set solely on the basis of these extras, however unusual they may be. Since first recording the cycle with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, where he offered a rather heavy-handed modern take on the symphonies, Chailly has gone back to an older, more historically informed style of playing Brahms that was familiar to conductors of the early 20th century. The music is lighter and more transparent, so in some ways, his recordings are sometimes reminiscent of classic performances by Bruno Walter, George Szell, and other revered conductors. For traditionalists, this is a fine set to own, especially if a fresh digital recording is needed.© TiVo