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Kurt Masur’s burnished readings of Brahms’s orchestral music with the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig
Hardly less than with its founder, Felix Mendelssohn, the Leipzig Gewandhaus grew up with Brahms conducting and playing. For a sense of heritage, the orchestra boasts a Brahms tradition second to none. In the words of Kurt Masur, their Kapellmeister for over a quarter of a century, ‘if they play Brahms, you can say it’s still authentic’.
Eloquence has compiled the Brahms recordings they made together between 1973 and 1981 for both the East-German Eterna label and Philips. Together they form the most comprehensive documentation yet issued of a musical relationship between composer, conductor and ensemble that was uniformly distinguished by deep understanding and affection. From the keyboard lion’s roaring of the First Piano Concerto to the rage and reconciliation of the Third Symphony and the mellow reflections of the Double Concerto, Masur and the Leipzigers present Brahms in the round.
‘Tradition is everything to the Gewandhaus,’ said Masur. ‘It’s what gives us our identity. It’s why we sound like ourselves and not like any other orchestra.’ The bedrock of that sound is a strong, unified string section with a density of timbre that supplies all the required weight for the post-Beethovenian drama of the First and Fourth symphonies. Masur maintained a narrow, brightly illuminated palette of wind tone-colours that lends a ruddy glow to the more pastoral tones of the Second as well as the rustic orchestrations of the Hungarian Dances and the oboe-led slow movement of the Violin Concerto.
The 1978 recording of the concerto finds its soloist Salvatore Accardo on his most honeyed and alluring form, contrastingly partnered in the Double Concerto by the gruffer, more outspoken tones of the cellist Heinrich Schiff. Masur and the Gewandhaus made several recordings of the piano concertos; Eloquence returns to the earliest and least-familiar of them, made with the American pianist Misha Dichter in 1977 when he was a peerless exponent of Liszt, in performances that grab the listener by the scruff of the neck and never let go. (Decca)
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Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 68 (Johannes Brahms)
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig - Kurt Masur, Conductor - Johannes Brahms, Composer
℗ 1979 Universal International Music B.V.
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig - Kurt Masur, Conductor - Johannes Brahms, Composer
℗ 1979 Universal International Music B.V.
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig - Kurt Masur, Conductor - Johannes Brahms, Composer
℗ 1979 Universal International Music B.V.
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig - Kurt Masur, Conductor - Johannes Brahms, Composer
℗ 1979 Universal International Music B.V.
Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 56a (Johannes Brahms)
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig - Kurt Masur, Conductor - Johannes Brahms, Composer
℗ 1979 Universal International Music B.V.
Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 73 (Johannes Brahms)
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig - Kurt Masur, Conductor - Johannes Brahms, Composer
℗ 1979 Universal International Music B.V.
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig - Kurt Masur, Conductor - Johannes Brahms, Composer
℗ 1979 Universal International Music B.V.
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig - Kurt Masur, Conductor - Johannes Brahms, Composer
℗ 1979 Universal International Music B.V.
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig - Kurt Masur, Conductor - Johannes Brahms, Composer
℗ 1979 Universal International Music B.V.
Symphony No. 3 in F Major, Op. 90 (Johannes Brahms)
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig - Kurt Masur, Conductor - Johannes Brahms, Composer
℗ 1979 Universal International Music B.V.
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig - Kurt Masur, Conductor - Johannes Brahms, Composer
℗ 1979 Universal International Music B.V.
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig - Kurt Masur, Conductor - Johannes Brahms, Composer
℗ 1979 Universal International Music B.V.
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig - Kurt Masur, Conductor - Johannes Brahms, Composer
℗ 1979 Universal International Music B.V.
Symphony No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 98 (Johannes Brahms)
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig - Kurt Masur, Conductor - Johannes Brahms, Composer
℗ 1979 Universal International Music B.V.
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig - Kurt Masur, Conductor - Johannes Brahms, Composer
℗ 1979 Universal International Music B.V.
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig - Kurt Masur, Conductor - Johannes Brahms, Composer
℗ 1979 Universal International Music B.V.
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig - Kurt Masur, Conductor - Johannes Brahms, Composer
℗ 1979 Universal International Music B.V.
Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80 (Johannes Brahms)
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig - Kurt Masur, Conductor - Johannes Brahms, Composer
℗ 1979 Universal International Music B.V.
Tragic Overture, Op. 81 (Johannes Brahms)
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig - Kurt Masur, Conductor - Johannes Brahms, Composer
℗ 1979 Universal International Music B.V.
Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 77 (Johannes Brahms)
Salvatore Accardo, Violin - Gewandhausorchester Leipzig - Kurt Masur, Conductor - Johannes Brahms, Composer
℗ 1979 Universal International Music B.V.
Salvatore Accardo, Violin - Gewandhausorchester Leipzig - Kurt Masur, Conductor - Johannes Brahms, Composer
℗ 1979 Universal International Music B.V.
Salvatore Accardo, Violin - Gewandhausorchester Leipzig - Kurt Masur, Conductor - Johannes Brahms, Composer
℗ 1979 Universal International Music B.V.
Concerto for Violin and Cello in A Minor, Op. 102 (Johannes Brahms)
Salvatore Accardo, Violin - Heinrich Schiff, Cello - Gewandhausorchester Leipzig - Kurt Masur, Conductor - Johannes Brahms, Composer
℗ 1979 Universal International Music B.V.
Salvatore Accardo, Violin - Heinrich Schiff, Cello - Gewandhausorchester Leipzig - Kurt Masur, Conductor - Johannes Brahms, Composer
℗ 1979 Universal International Music B.V.
Salvatore Accardo, Violin - Heinrich Schiff, Cello - Gewandhausorchester Leipzig - Kurt Masur, Conductor - Johannes Brahms, Composer
℗ 1979 Universal International Music B.V.
Piano Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 15 (Johannes Brahms)
Misha Dichter, Piano - Gewandhausorchester Leipzig - Kurt Masur, Conductor - Johannes Brahms, Composer
℗ 1978 Universal International Music B.V.
Misha Dichter, Piano - Gewandhausorchester Leipzig - Kurt Masur, Conductor - Johannes Brahms, Composer
℗ 1978 Universal International Music B.V.
Misha Dichter, Piano - Gewandhausorchester Leipzig - Kurt Masur, Conductor - Johannes Brahms, Composer
℗ 1978 Universal International Music B.V.
Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-Flat Major, Op. 83 (Johannes Brahms)
Misha Dichter, Piano - Gewandhausorchester Leipzig - Kurt Masur, Conductor - Johannes Brahms, Composer
℗ 1978 Universal International Music B.V.
Misha Dichter, Piano - Gewandhausorchester Leipzig - Kurt Masur, Conductor - Johannes Brahms, Composer
℗ 1978 Universal International Music B.V.
Misha Dichter, Piano - Gewandhausorchester Leipzig (Siegfried Arnold, Cello) - Kurt Masur, Conductor - Johannes Brahms, Composer
℗ 1978 Universal International Music B.V.
Misha Dichter, Piano - Gewandhausorchester Leipzig - Kurt Masur, Conductor - Johannes Brahms, Composer
℗ 1978 Universal International Music B.V.
Serenade No. 1 in D Major, op. 11 (Johannes Brahms)
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig - Kurt Masur, Conductor - Johannes Brahms, Composer
℗ 1981 Universal International Music B.V.
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig - Kurt Masur, Conductor - Johannes Brahms, Composer
℗ 1981 Universal International Music B.V.
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig - Kurt Masur, Conductor - Johannes Brahms, Composer
℗ 1981 Universal International Music B.V.
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig - Kurt Masur, Conductor - Johannes Brahms, Composer
℗ 1981 Universal International Music B.V.
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig - Kurt Masur, Conductor - Johannes Brahms, Composer
℗ 1981 Universal International Music B.V.
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig - Kurt Masur, Conductor - Johannes Brahms, Composer
℗ 1981 Universal International Music B.V.
Serenade No. 2 in A Major, Op. 16 (Johannes Brahms)
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig - Kurt Masur, Conductor - Johannes Brahms, Composer - Claus Strüben, Recording Engineer - Heinz Wegener, Recording Producer
℗ 2006 Universal International Music B.V.
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig - Kurt Masur, Conductor - Johannes Brahms, Composer - Claus Strüben, Recording Engineer - Heinz Wegener, Recording Producer
℗ 2006 Universal International Music B.V.
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig - Kurt Masur, Conductor - Johannes Brahms, Composer - Claus Strüben, Recording Engineer - Heinz Wegener, Recording Producer
℗ 2006 Universal International Music B.V.
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig - Kurt Masur, Conductor - Johannes Brahms, Composer - Claus Strüben, Recording Engineer - Heinz Wegener, Recording Producer
℗ 2006 Universal International Music B.V.
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig - Kurt Masur, Conductor - Johannes Brahms, Composer - Claus Strüben, Recording Engineer - Heinz Wegener, Recording Producer
℗ 2006 Universal International Music B.V.
21 Hungarian Dances, WoO 1 - Orchestral Version (Johannes Brahms)
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig - Kurt Masur, Conductor - Johannes Brahms, Composer
℗ 1983 Universal International Music B.V.
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig - Kurt Masur, Conductor - Johannes Brahms, Composer - Johan Andreas Hallén, Arranger, Orchestrator
℗ 1983 Universal International Music B.V.
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig - Kurt Masur, Conductor - Johannes Brahms, Composer
℗ 1983 Universal International Music B.V.
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig - Kurt Masur, Conductor - Johannes Brahms, Composer - Paul Juon, Arranger, Orchestrator
℗ 1983 Universal International Music B.V.
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig - Kurt Masur, Conductor - Johannes Brahms, Composer
℗ 1983 Universal International Music B.V.
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig - Kurt Masur, Conductor - Johannes Brahms, Composer - Albert Parlow, Arranger, Orchestrator
℗ 1983 Universal International Music B.V.
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig - Kurt Masur, Conductor - Johannes Brahms, Composer - Martin Schmelling, Arranger, Orchestrator
℗ 1983 Universal International Music B.V.
Albumbeschreibung
Kurt Masur’s burnished readings of Brahms’s orchestral music with the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig
Hardly less than with its founder, Felix Mendelssohn, the Leipzig Gewandhaus grew up with Brahms conducting and playing. For a sense of heritage, the orchestra boasts a Brahms tradition second to none. In the words of Kurt Masur, their Kapellmeister for over a quarter of a century, ‘if they play Brahms, you can say it’s still authentic’.
Eloquence has compiled the Brahms recordings they made together between 1973 and 1981 for both the East-German Eterna label and Philips. Together they form the most comprehensive documentation yet issued of a musical relationship between composer, conductor and ensemble that was uniformly distinguished by deep understanding and affection. From the keyboard lion’s roaring of the First Piano Concerto to the rage and reconciliation of the Third Symphony and the mellow reflections of the Double Concerto, Masur and the Leipzigers present Brahms in the round.
‘Tradition is everything to the Gewandhaus,’ said Masur. ‘It’s what gives us our identity. It’s why we sound like ourselves and not like any other orchestra.’ The bedrock of that sound is a strong, unified string section with a density of timbre that supplies all the required weight for the post-Beethovenian drama of the First and Fourth symphonies. Masur maintained a narrow, brightly illuminated palette of wind tone-colours that lends a ruddy glow to the more pastoral tones of the Second as well as the rustic orchestrations of the Hungarian Dances and the oboe-led slow movement of the Violin Concerto.
The 1978 recording of the concerto finds its soloist Salvatore Accardo on his most honeyed and alluring form, contrastingly partnered in the Double Concerto by the gruffer, more outspoken tones of the cellist Heinrich Schiff. Masur and the Gewandhaus made several recordings of the piano concertos; Eloquence returns to the earliest and least-familiar of them, made with the American pianist Misha Dichter in 1977 when he was a peerless exponent of Liszt, in performances that grab the listener by the scruff of the neck and never let go. (Decca)
Details of original recording : Studio Paul-Gerhardt-Kirche, Leipzig, Germany, January 1973 (No. 4), 25–27 February 1973 (Tragische Ouvertüre), 27–29 October 1976 (No. 2), September 1975 & October 1976 (No. 1), 4–5 January 1977 (No. 3, Akademische Festouvertüre); 13–16 September 1978 (Haydn Variations)
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 64 track(s)
- Total length: 08:22:09
- Main artists: Kurt Masur Gewandhausorchester Leipzig Misha Dichter Salvatore Accardo Heinrich Schiff
- Composer: Johannes Brahms
- Label: Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd.
- Area: Allemagne
- Genre: Klassiek
- Period: Romantic Music
- Collection: Eloquence
© 1983 Universal Music Australia Pty Ltd. ℗ 1983 Universal International Music B.V.
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