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Brahms - Symphony No.4, Hungarian Dances | Naxos 8570233

Brahms - Symphony No.4, Hungarian Dances

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Label: Naxos

Cat No: 8570233

Barcode: 0747313023370

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 28th August 2007

Contents

Works

Brahms, Johannes

Hungarian Dances (21), WoO1
» no.2 in D minor
» no.4 in F sharp minor
» no.5 in G minor
» no.6 in D major
» no.7 in F major
» no.8 in A minor
» no.9 in E minor
Symphony no.4 in E minor, op.98

Artists

London Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor

Marin Alsop

Works

Brahms, Johannes

Hungarian Dances (21), WoO1
» no.2 in D minor
» no.4 in F sharp minor
» no.5 in G minor
» no.6 in D major
» no.7 in F major
» no.8 in A minor
» no.9 in E minor
Symphony no.4 in E minor, op.98

Artists

London Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor

Marin Alsop

About

With this opening release (Naxos 8.557428 – Brahms Symphony No. 1), we can only sit back and wait with tremendous anticipation for the remaining three symphonies to be released. This is a recording that can be set alongside Klemperer and Karajan and hold pride of place.” MusicWeb International
 
The fourth and final release in the major new Naxos cycle of Brahms Symphonies featuring the London Philharmonic and Marin Alsop presents the Symphony No. 4, which won immediate success at the time of its 1885 première and was praised by the critic Hanslick for its demonstration of the composer’s mastery of ‘all the secrets of counterpoint, harmony and invention’. 
 
It is coupled with seven of Brahms’s Hungarian Dances imaginatively orchestrated by Peter Breiner in a special Naxos commission for this recording.
 
Marin Alsop's reading is certainly fine: dark of hue, lyrical and long drawn, though never, even for a moment, comatose. Rhythm is good, articulation keen, phrasing exquisite, the reading's crepuscular colours glowingly realised by the LPO. The reading has a quality of melancholy, a wistfulness crossed with a sense of incipient tragedy, which is almost Elgarian” Gramophone on the Third Symphony (8.557430)

 

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