This 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.”

Contents:
CD 1
- Academic Festival Overture, Op.80
Berliner Philharmoniker

- Gesang der Parzen, Op.89
Rundfunkchor Berlin, Berliner Philharmoniker

- Symphony No.1 in C Minor, Op.68
Berliner Philharmoniker

CD 2
- Rhapsody for Alto, Chorus, and Orchestra, Op.53
Marjana Lipovsek, Ernst Senff Chor, Berliner Philharmoniker

- Symphony No.2 in D, Op.73
Berliner Philharmoniker

CD 3
- Tragic Overture, Op.81
Berliner Philharmoniker

- Schicksalslied, Op.54
Ernst Senff Chor, Berliner Philharmoniker

- Symphony No.3 in F, Op.90
Berliner Philharmoniker

CD 4
- Variations On A Theme By Haydn, Op.56a
Berliner Philharmoniker

- Nänie von Friedrich Schiller, für Chor und Orchester, Op.82
Rundfunkchor Berlin, Berliner Philharmoniker

- Symphony No.4 in E Minor, Op.98
Berliner Philharmoniker

CD 5
- Serenade No.1 in D, Op.11
Natalia Gutman (cello), Mahler Chamber Orchestra

- Serenade No.2 in A, Op.16
Berliner Philharmoniker