Brahms: Serenades
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Brahms: Serenades
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Riccardo Chailly
[ Decca / CD ]
Release Date: Tuesday 10 February 2015
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Following the 'Gramophone Record of the Year' award-winning set of the Brahms Symphonies, Riccardo Chailly turns his "rare talent for transforming music ripe for rediscovery" to Brahms's Serenades. This exquisite recording renews these unjustly neglected and rarely performed works in performances of "trademark clarity" (Gramophone Record of the Year 2014) and marks the first Decca recording of these works since Kertesz in 1968.
Forming part of the wider Brahms project undertaken by Chailly and his Leipzig orchestra, this release restores an importance to these works which they rarely receive. In Chailly's hands they emerge not just as precursors of the symphonies but powerful and individual works in their own right.
"Overshadowed by the quartet of symphonies, Brahms's two orchestral Serenades are not given the attention they deserve in the concert hall or the recording studio. So it's pleasing to have this excellent new recording from such an elite orchestra as the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig...Brahms's pair of orchestral Serenades could not receive greater advocacy than these entirely convincing readings." (Recording of the Month MusicWeb Feb 2015)
"[Chailly] never imposes symphonic weight on music that simply wasn't designed for it, nor does he ever drive it too intensely: he allows it to follow its own course...the phrasing of the Leipzig wind, and the suaveness of the strings, are constant delights. These might not be among Brahms' greatest works, but it is hard to imagine how they could be performed more authoritatively." (Five Stars The Guardian)
"Bliss beckons immediately in the opening horn solo in the D major Serenade, op 11 - the first of the album's multiple showcases for the mellifluously earthy Gewandhaus winds and brass...When coloured and polished with Chailly's electrifying finesse, the results are beyond adorable." (Five Stars The Times)
Tracks:
Serenade No. 1 in D major, Op. 11
Serenade No. 2 in A Major, Op. 16
