Brahms: Symphonies (complete) / Overtures / Hungarian Dances / etc

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JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Symphonies (complete) / Overtures / Hungarian Dances / etc
Gewandhausorchester, Riccardo Chailly

[ Decca / 3 CD Box Set ]

Release Date: Friday 1 November 2013

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Following the 2011 landmark Beethoven cycle, Riccardo Chailly returns with a recording of the complete Brahms symphonies and orchestral works including the overtures and Haydn Variations.

Rarities include world premiere recordings of two piano intermezzi orchestrated by Paul Klengel (brother of the Gewandhaus' long-standing principal cellist Julius Klengel); the 9 Liebeslieder waltzes; the original first performance version of the Andante of Symphony No. 1 and the even rarer revised opening of the Fourth Symphony.

Chailly has radically rethought his approach to these works, re-examining the scores and returning to the recorded interpretations of a generation of conductors alive during Brahms' lifetime, principally Felix Weingartner and one of his Gewandhaus predecessors Bruno Walter.

GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE AWARD WINNER 2014 - Orchestral
Gramophone Magazine - Disc of the month October 2013

"dynamic and dramatic readings, faithful to Brahms's intentions. Powerfully conceived, they are rhythmically alert, without an ounce of undue sentiment and never for an instant losing sight of the scores' rock-solid architecture. The Gewandhaus players reward him with magnificent playing, alert and sumptuously rich in sound." BBC Music Magazine Awards 2014 Orchestral WINNER

"Chailly achieves a refreshing clarity and vividness...Sometimes, I feel, clarity is achieved at the cost of lightening the bass too much. All in all, though, these are richly stimulating performances." (Sunday Times)

"There's not a whiff of Germanic stodginess, but nor do you feel the music is being unnaturally pushed. Chailly's tempi, faster than 20th century tradition and always consistent within themselves, bring out the "classical" in Brahms, and the Leipzigers' performances - wonderfully lithe as well as meltingly lyrical - are a tonic" (Five Stars Financial Times)

"During Riccardo Chailly's eight-year reign in Leipzig, the Gewandhaus Orchestra has become as articulate a Brahms ensemble as any in Austro-Germany. It helps, of course, that Chailly himself is a trusted Brahmsian. Chailly belongs to that select group of conductors on record who direct all four Brahms symphonies almost equally well. Such conductors - Weingartner, Klemperer, Boult, Wand and Loughran in his fine Hallé cycle - tend to belong to the spare-sounding, classically orientated school of Brahms interpretation, a school to which Chailly himself also subscribes." (Gramophone)

Tracks:

Symphonies Nos. 1-4 (Complete)
Tragic Overture, Op. 81

Intermezzo in E major, Op. 116 No. 4 (arr. Paul Klengel)
Intermezzo in E flat major, Op. 117 No. 1 (arr. Paul Klengel)
Variations on a theme by Haydn for orchestra, Op. 56a 'St Anthony Variations'
Liebeslieder-Walzer, Op. 52: excerpts (Orchestral Version)
Nagen am Herzen fühl ich Gift in mir, Op. 65, No. 9 (Orchestral Version)
Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80

Hungarian Dance No. 1 in G minor
Hungarian Dance No. 3 in F major
Hungarian Dance No. 10 in F major

Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68 - Andante
Original First Performance Version