Brahms: Symphonies, Serenades and Overtures
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JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Symphonies, Serenades and Overtures
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Claudio Abbado, with Marjana Lipovsek (contralto)
[ Deutsche Grammophon / 5 CD Box Set ]
Release Date: Friday 25 July 2014
The 5 CD BRAHMS box of Symphonies, Serenades and Overtures, is generally recognized as containing the best modern recordings of his symphonic oeuvre. "Brahms would be the top of my Abbado picks," critic Martin Kettle has written, "partly but not only because all those years ago he drove into the tragic grandeur of the first movement of the first symphony with a human warmth which very few other conductors have ever achieved."
"Abbado's is an outstanding set in every way. Rarely has he made recordings of the central Viennese classics which find him so naturally sunny and warm in his expression. The playing of the Chamber Orchestra Europe is both beautiful and deeply committed, consistently refined and elegant, but with ample power when necessity." (Penguin Guide)
Tracks:
Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80
Gesang der Parzen (Song of the Fates), Op. 89
Berlin Radio Chorus
Alto Rhapsody, Op. 53
Marjana Lipovsek (contralto)
Ernst Senff Chor
Tragic Overture, Op. 81
Schicksalslied, Op. 54
Ernst Senff Chor
Variations on a theme by Haydn for orchestra, Op. 56a 'St Anthony Variations'
Nänie von Friedrich Schiller, für Chor und Orchester, Op. 82
Ernst Senff Chor
Symphonies Nos. 1-4 (Complete)
Serenade No. 1 in D major, Op. 11
Serenade No. 2 in A Major, Op. 16
