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Brahms - Symphony No.2, Alto Rhapsody | SDG SDG703

Brahms - Symphony No.2, Alto Rhapsody

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Label: SDG

Cat No: SDG703

Barcode: 0843183070329

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 2nd February 2009

International Record Review Outstanding

Contents

Artists

Nathalie Stutzmann (contralto)
Monteverdi Choir
Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique

Conductor

John Eliot Gardiner

Works

Brahms, Johannes

Alto Rhapsody, op.53
Symphony no.2 in D major, op.73

Schubert, Franz

An Schwager Kronos, D369 (arr. Brahms)
Gesang der Geister uber den Wassern, D714
Gruppe aus dem Tartarus, D583 (orch. Brahms)

Artists

Nathalie Stutzmann (contralto)
Monteverdi Choir
Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique

Conductor

John Eliot Gardiner

About

Following on from the phenomenal worldwide success of the first release in the Brahms series, SDG continues the series with Brahms’ Symphony No.2 which sees John Eliot Gardiner and his Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique explore the music of Johannes Brahms and of those composers that influenced him.

Brahms’ dark, deeply personal and moving Alto Rhapsody for alto solo, male chorus and orchestra is included here alongside three choral works by Franz Schubert. In Schubert’s Gesang der Geister über den Wassern D714 (1821), comparisons between the two composers could not be more clear. Brahms draws on the effective example of his beloved Schubert firstly by composing the rhapsody for male chorus and secondly, basing the work upon a poem by Goethe.

Acclaim for SDG702: '...[T]his is one of the most stimulating Brahms releases to have appeared in recent years.' - BBC Music Magazine

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