Brahms: Symphony No. 4 in E minor / Hungarian Dances / etc
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JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Symphony No. 4 in E minor / Hungarian Dances / etc
Budapest Festival Orchestra, Ivan Fischer
[ Channel Classics SACD / Hybrid SACD ]
Release Date: Friday 20 November 2015
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"What a wonderful start: a fragmented melody like a hovering leaf blown up and down by the wind. Never has tenderness been composed more movingly. And what a magnificant ending of the same movement: extreme tenderness is matched by extreme drama which grows and grows to gigantic expression. Brahms is not restrained anymore in his last symphony.
After the fun and vitality of the third movement the final passacaglia is much more than a sequence of variations. We experience a huge range of dark emotions: from the lonely lamentation of the flute to the defiant, tragic ending. There is no room for the usual jubilation or the usual modulation to a major key. Brahms finishes his symphonic work with prophetic foreboding heralding Spengler's Der Untergang des Abendlandes (The Decline of the West)."
Iván Fischer
'This is an orchestra whose players listen to each other intently' (BBC Music Magazine Orchestral Choice Christmas 2015)
Tracks:
Brahms:
Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98
Hungarian Dance No. 3 in F major
Hungarian Dance No. 7
Hungarian Dance No. 11
plus
Instrumental folk music from the region of Sic (original melody used by Brahms in his 3rd Hungarian Dance)
István Kádár (violin), András Szabó (viola), Attila Martos (bass)
