Brahms: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4 London Symphony Orchestra & Valery Gergiev
Album info
Album-Release:
2013
HRA-Release:
21.01.2015
Label: LSO Live
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Artist: London Symphony Orchestra & Valery Gergiev
Composer: Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Album including Album cover Booklet (PDF)
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- Johannes Brahms (1833-1897): Symphony No 3 in F major, Op 90 (1883)
- 1 I. Allegro con brio - Un poco sostenuto 13:48
- 2 II. Andante 09:07
- 3 III. Poco allegretto 06:00
- 4 IV. Allegro - Un poco sostenuto 09:11
- Symphony No 4 in E minor, Op 98 (1884–85)
- 5 I. Allegro non troppo 12:29
- 6 II. Andante moderato 11:08
- 7 III. Allegro giocoso - Poco meno presto 06:00
- 8 IV. Allegro energico e passionato - Piu allegro 09:32
Info for Brahms: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4
Valery Gergiev and the London Symphony Orchestra bring to a close their celebrated Brahms’ cycle with the release of Brahms Symphonies No 3 and 4. Valery Gergiev launches his Brahms symphony cycle with the London Symphony Orchestra with this disc featuring the first two symphonies. Also included are the Tragic Overture and the Haydn Variations, Brahms' first orchestral piece and the first set of independent variations for orchestra by any composer. The epic first symphony, portraying dignity and grandeur, was ecstatically received at its premier in 1876, and Brahms was soon heralded as one of the great symphonic masters. His second, with its joyful melodies and pastoral beauty, portrays a more relaxed tone than its predecessor. The Tragic Overture, on the other hand, is turbulent and tormented, with a powerful and magnificent energy. Gergiev's performances capture all of these varying moods, balancing clarity and drive with emotion and subtlety.
Brahms is often associated with the idea of abstract music, free of literary models or autobiography, but with the third the composer wrote in many ways his most personal symphony.
Composed at a mountain retreat in 1884, about a year after completing the third, Brahms’ architectural musical skill is nowhere more evident than in his fourth and final symphony, employing Baroque contrapuntal techniques and chromatic labyrinths and described by Hans von Bülow as having the feeling of ‘being given a beating by two incredibly intelligent people.’
“Brahms and Gergiev could hardly be described as natural bedfellows but there were moments in the Third Symphony where the illicitness of unnatural bedfellows generated a certain frisson.” (Gramophone Magazine)
London Symphony Orchestra
Valery Gergiev, conductor
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Booklet for Brahms: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4