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Joseph Haydn
d. 11. Aug. 2022
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Andrew Clements (musikanmelder)
d. 11. Aug. 2022
"The exact number of players he [Adam Fischer] uses isn't given in the sleeve notes, but a photograph of the Danish Chamber Orchestra suggests there are fewer than 50 of them, and certainly these constantly fascinating performances demonstrate that, even in Brahms, less can mean a lot more. These aren't period-instrument performances ... It's their scale, and the greater transparency that comes with using fewer strings, that pays such dividends ... These fresh, meticulously rethought performances may be worlds away from the classic recordings of these symphonies ... but among recent surveys, it's hard to think of more engaging ones".
d. 5. Jan. 2022
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Thomas Gehrig (musikanmelder)
d. 5. Jan. 2022
"Bei der Vierten denkt man gerne zuerst an Carlos Kleibers grossartige Einspielung mit den Wiener Philharmonikern. Bis heute kann man nur bedauern, dass in dieser Konstellation keine Gesamtaufnahme entstanden ist, an dessen bedingungslos zwingende Intensität kommt auch Eschenbach hier nicht heran. Insgesamt aber eine Brahms-Box mit vielen Vorzügen, die keine Probleme hat, sich an vorderer diskographischer Front einzureihen. Ein im Booklet abgedrucktes Gespräch mit Eschenbach vervollständigt seine Sicht auf Brahms".
d. 29. Mar. 2018
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Erica Jeal
d. 29. Mar. 2018
"There is nothing here that sounds like bog-standard Brahms, nothing that hasn't been meticulously thought through, barely a bar that doesn't say something. If that sounds exhausting to listen to, it's not; Ticciati's care for keeping the music airborne, coupled with the lucent transparency of the playing, mean that the longest movements fly by ... This release captures the strength of their connection and preserves it at its peak".
2018
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Victor Carr Jr.
2018
"Daniel Barenboim's first Brahms symphony cycle was disappointingly tepid, despite brilliant playing by the Chicago Symphony. Dare we get our hopes up for this new one? I did, starting with Symphony No. 3, impressed with the conductor's energized, moderate first-movement tempo and the Berlin Staatskapelle's euphonious playing that illuminates the harmonic and rhythmic cross-currents in Brahms' score ... But that's where the good news ends. Barenboim turns the Andante second movement into an Adagio, making it sound leaden and endless. He does the same in Symphony No. 4's slow movement ... Still, if forced to choose between Barenboim's Brahms cycles, I would pick this one".
2017 June
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John Quinn (musikanmelder)
2017 June
"My enjoyment of the performances was enhanced no end by the very fine playing of the Boston Symphony. The orchestra is on excellent form throughout these performances. The recorded sound is very good ... This set confirms that the relationship between Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony is flourishing".
d. 26. May 2017
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James Longstaffe
d. 26. May 2017
"Presto disc of the week: This set is quite exceptional, and surely one of the finest to have come along in recent years".
2010 uge 05
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Jens Cornelius
2010 uge 05
"Vurdering: Ugens cd" - "Berliner Filharmonikerne stadig er et samlet instrument, der i høj grad er rettet ind til at yde sit bedste i Brahms' klangverden. Det viser den nye Brahms-boks med Rattle og Berlinerne. Spillet er suverænt stilsikkert. Sart, stærkt og sindssygt smukt ... Et monumentalt sæt, som kan nydes i årevis".
2013 uge 46
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Jens Cornelius
2013 uge 46
"Vurdering: Ugens cd" - "Det hele klinger så inspireret og vitalt, at det ene værk tager det andet. Tiden flyver - og hvis den ikke plejer at gøre det, når du hører Brahms, så er Ugens Cd helt sikkert noget for dig!".
2012 uge 12
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2012 uge 12
"Vurdering: Ugens cd" - "På Ugens Cd dirigerer Andrew Manze de fire symfonier og andre orkesterværker af Brahms. Det lyder slankere og mere gennemsigtigt end Brahms plejer at gøre. Fraserne snor sig yndefuldt ind og ud mellem hinanden ... På Ugens Cd hører man et orkester og en dirigent, der tør omvurdere traditionerne og spille hvad Brahms rent faktisk skrev ... og det er til gavn for både nye og gamle lyttere".
d. 24. Aug. 2018
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Marcus Stäbler
d. 24. Aug. 2018
"CD der Woche: Das Orchester entfacht einen satten, fülligen Klang, grundiert vom weichen Pochen der Pauke. Gleich in der langsamen Einleitung zur ersten Sinfonie deutet Daniel Barenboim die Richtung an, die er mit dem neuen Album einschlägt. Sein Brahms hat Gewicht, Barenboim kostet die dunklen Farben aus und durchschreitet die weiten Räume mit gemessenem Schritt ... Dadurch betont er die romantische Schwere der Stücke und gibt seiner Staatskapelle Zeit, den Reichtum der Sinfonien auszukosten ... Die Interpretation wirkt sehr organisch, sie atmet und fliesst wie von selbst auf ihre Höhepunkte zu ... Schöner oder beseelter als bei Barenboim und seiner famosen Staatskapelle dürfte man die Brahms-Sinfonien kaum zu hören bekommen".
d. 19. Nov. 2014
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Peter Dürrfeld
d. 19. Nov. 2014
"Ud over de fire symfonier ... rummer boksen en meget attraktiv dvd, hvor der er blevet plads til begge Brahms' klaverkoncerter, spillet med pondus af Maurizio Pollini, samt violinkoncerten, der har den 35-årige georgiske violinist Lisa Batiashvili som solist. Hun er et fascinerende bekendtskab ... Hendes violin klinger skønt i alle lejer: Brahms med dybde og højde og alt det, der er midtimellem ... Orkestret og maestro Thielemann følger hende til dørs med strålende spil".
d. 4. Oct. 2022
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Henrik Friis (f. 1978)
d. 4. Oct. 2022
"den nye indspilning med Danmarks Underholdningsorkester, der er halvt så stort som de fleste i branchen, har et helt anderledes slankt klangideal end det store sus af romantisk symfoni, som Brahms normalt giver. Men det lykkes smukt. Med sans for tempo, skøn balance, høj energi og et helt igennem dramatisk udtryk".
d. 12. Sep. 2022
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Peter Dürrfeld
d. 12. Sep. 2022
"Den ungarske dirigent Adam Fischer (...) [og] Danmarks Underholdningsorkester (...) har for Naxos indspillet symfonierne på tre cd'er, nr. 1 på den første, de to midterste på den anden, og nr. 4 på den tredje (...) Fischers tag [virker] på denne 'svanesangssymfoni' en kende letbenet. Men der er utvivlsomt tale om et bevidst valg; Fischer har gerne villet skille sig lidt ud, og mange vil givetvis finde det forfriskende - og i lighed med denne anmelder ikke savne den intensitet og tyngde, men får med den italienske maestro Claudio Abbado eller med den legendariske østrigske dirigent Carlos Kleiber".
d. 10. Nov. 2009
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Henrik Friis (f. 1978)
d. 10. Nov. 2009
"Når Berliner Philharmonikers chef Simon Rattle begynder sit livtag med Brahms' fire symfonier langsomt og ufokuseret, bliver forventningerne til de næste tre timer i selskab med fire af den klassiske musiks mest spillede stykker mildest talt nedtonede ... Der er ingen undskyldning for en grødet strygerklang og sneglefart".
d. 25. Apr. 2018
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Henrik Friis (f. 1978)
d. 25. Apr. 2018
"Dirigent og orkester har krympet de så mægtige symfonier af Johannes Brahms til forvokset kammerstørrelse. Og i den forvandling har de fået et drev, man ikke lige bliver færdig med. Robin Ticciati må virkelig dele vandene med sit nye album ... 'Rå, romantisk feber' kalder han sit klangideal. Resultatet er markant. Uden symfonisk bredde bliver det melodierne, rytme og de korte aftræk, der bærer musikken frem. Alle markeringer står knivskarpt i lydbilledet".
d. 20. Nov. 2013
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Peter Dürrfeld
d. 20. Nov. 2013
"Er man ikke den lykkelige ejer af Brahms' fire symfonier, kan en spritny cd-udgivelse i den grad råde bod herpå ... Riccardo Chailly dirigerer sit Gewandhaus Orchester fra Leipzig, som man roligt kan betegne som et af verdens førende symfoniorkestre, ikke mindst til værker som disse. Alle sektioner er optimalt bemandet, så man får masser af klangskønhed at glæde sig over ... Sættet vil utvivlsomt få status som en af de mest markante klassiske udgivelser i 2013".
d. 31. Oct. 2013
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Thomas Michelsen
d. 31. Oct. 2013
"Riccardo Chaillys nye livtag med Brahms' orkestermusik er massivt vellykket. Her kan Bruno Walter-fans og tilhængere af nutidig opførelsespraksis mødes i fryd ... Disse optagelser simpelthen lyder godt ... Brahms var omhyggelig med sin musik, og Riccardo Chailly er det ikke mindre. Man skal unde sig selv disse indspilninger".
d. 28. Mar. 2012
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Thomas Michelsen
d. 28. Mar. 2012
"Helsingborgs symfoniorkester er et godt orkester ... men hans [Andrew Manze] tag på Brahms er usikkert. Manze dirigerer uden dramatisk nerve og, hvilket er temmelig katastrofalt, uden hørbar fornemmelse for, i hvor høj grad symfonikeren Brahms står på skuldrene af Beethoven".
d. 5. Oct. 2010
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John Christiansen
d. 5. Oct. 2010
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d. 25. Nov. 2009
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Jakob Holm
d. 25. Nov. 2009
"På den ene side er der tale om fortræffelige indspilninger: Som musikelsker kan man kun fryde sig over de individuelle tekniske færdigheder, som orkesterets musikere besidder ... Og alligevel er jeg ikke overbevist om disse indspilningers blivende kvaliteter. Det har både noget at gøre med lydkvaliteten, som er lidt for lukket og kompakt, og så fortolkningen, som er lidt for maskinel og tung".
d. 27. Nov. 2009
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John Christiansen
d. 27. Nov. 2009
"Orkestrets varme og typisk tyske klang dominerer ... Rattles Brahms må høres som en helhed, og så bliver det afgørende hans overraskende ro med flydende impulser og orkestrets varme og fint afbalancerede klangspil, som giver mindelser om orkestrets storhedsperioder under Furtwängler og Karajan".
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2022 Juni
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Jürgen Schaarwächter
2022 Juni
"Thomas Dausgaards Einspielung von Johannes Brahms' Sinfonien zeichnet sich durch transparenten Orchesterklang bis ins hinterste Detail, pointierte Phrasierung, flexible Ausarbeitung der Agogik und packend in den Steigerungen aus: sehnig-schlank und auch im Lyrischen nicht "germanisch-schwergewichtig" ... Die "Tragische Ouvertüre", die "Haydn-Variationen", die "Alt-Rhapsodie" und sechs von Brahms orchestrierte Schubert-Lieder komplettieren die Edition".
2022 October
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Misha Donat
2022 October
"Ádám Fischer and the Danish Chamber Orchestra are by no means the first to have tackled the Brahms symphonies with similarly pared-down forces, and the leaner sound often works to the music's advantage ... Fischer's flexible tempos and his ear for colour generally serve him well ... The sunnier Second Symphony suits Fischer's approach particularly well, and its closing moments, with their braying horns and trumpets, are thrillingly done. Altogether, something of a mixed success, but always thought-provoking".
2022 novembre
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Hugues Mousseau
2022 novembre
2018 Juni
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Gerald Felber
2018 Juni
"Das Erstaunliche ... ist nun, dass hier wirklich kammermusikalische Feinheit und eine fast schon grüblerische, auch technisch sehr gut abgebildete Vertiefung ins Detail herrschen, ohne dass darunter die gedankliche Grösse und emotionale Kraft der Werke auch nur im Geringsten leiden würden ... Auch für Brahms-gehärtete Ohren unbedingt hörenswert".
2018 May
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Erik Levi
2018 May
"Recording of the month: Perhaps one of the most striking aspects of these performances is the sheer variety of colours and timbres Robin Ticciati manages to extract from the outstanding strings of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra ... Throughout each work, Ticciati projects strongly defined phrase characterisation, coupled with a great sense of forward momentum ... Exciting, revelatory performances that make you listen afresh to this wonderful life-enhancing music".
2013 December
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Calum MacDonald
2013 December
"Vurdering: BBC music orchestral choice" - "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".
d. 25. Oct. 2013
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Andrew Clark
d. 25. Oct. 2013
"Chailly treats the symphonies to the same brush-down he gave Beethoven two years ago, and the result is equally invigorating.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".
2013, nr. 51
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Johannes Nebel
2013, nr. 51
"En kollektiv orkesterinsats som gång på gång imponerar med ett häftigt, samklingande och böljande ljudlandskap. Tidvis har man som lyssnare riktigt roligt ... och trots att jag sällan säger nej till otyglad energi känns musiken lite väl forcerad med jämna mellanrum".
2012 July
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Bayan Northcott
2012 July
"There is no shortage of recordings of the Brahms Symphonies ... But this proves a release of distinctive character and many rewards ... There is absolutely nothing pedantic in the readings he [Manze]secures from his modern-instrument players ... There are many instances of fresh thinking in his approach - and of fresh feeling".
2018 décembre
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Hugues Mousseau
2018 décembre
2018 November
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Jessica Duchen
2018 November
"If you like your Brahms big, beefy and beautiful, you'll adore this set ... It is on some levels all about gorgeous playing from Barenboim's Berlin Staatskapelle: ocean-deep string tone, heavenly horns, woodwind that yearn, converse and blend. Its many splendid qualities include an elemental power that can fire up into extraordinary intensity".
2018 November
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Kai Luehrs-Kaiser
2018 November
"Tatsächlich ist Daniel Barenboim in jedem einzelnen Satz dieses Zyklus weit langsamer als Karajan, Klemperer, Rattle, Szell, Toscanini ... Das darf als Statement gelten und wird durch ein Zugleich von Geschmeidigkeit und Strukturentschiedenheit souverän eingelöst. Die Musik fliesst, ohne ihre leicht dozierenden Duktus zu verlieren. Die Grundstimmung ist lyrisch, dahinter spürt man den Willen eines architektonischen Masterplans ... Mit der Staatskapelle Berlin kann der Dirigent einem Klangkörper vertrauen, der auf der absoluten Höhe seines Könnens argumentiert. Wundervoll!".
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2017 September
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Edward Seckerson
2017 September
"Editor's choice: His Brahms is as vital, impulsive and rhythmic as all his work strives to be - though not as sheerly dynamic as one might have imagined - but there is blend and bloom, too ... He truly listens to the music, feeling its pulse and allowing the phrasing to evolve with as little intervention or 'shaping' as possible. He is generous without indulgence, muscular without vulgarity".
2017, nr. 78
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Axel Lindhe
2017, nr. 78
"Bostonmusikerna trivs i den tyske romantierns sällskap. Orkesterspelet är genomgående på en sagolikt hög nivå. Särskillt stråkklangens skimrande lyster ger musiken en extra dimension ... Och att även Nelsons älskar den här musiken råder det ingen tvekan om ... transparens, innerlighet och känslomässighet är de ord som kanske bäst beskriver tolkningen - något som passar orkesterns läckra sound som hand i handske".
2022 May
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Rob Cowan (f. 1948)
2022 May
"I'd nominate this set - fresh, generally swift, bouncy, transparent, sometimes graced with subtle portamentos and consistently alive to salient detail - as the most successful of various attempts to reproduce the aura of Brahms as focused by a smaller band. The SACD sound certainly tells it as it is".
2022, nr. 109
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Axel Lindhe
2022, nr. 109
"Vanligtvis hör man Brahms med betydligt större orkestrar än Svenska Kammarorkesterns 39 musiker ... Kännetecknande för Dausgaards angreppssätt är ett kraftfullt driv med snabba tempi. Orkestern svarar genomgående med ett fantastiskt musicerande, härlig precision och transparens. Vill man ha mer mystik och tyngd får man söka sig till inspelningar med större orkestrar. Det underbara med Brahms är trots allt att hans musik är så innehållsrik att musiken håller för så vitt skilda infallsvinklar. Dausgaards inspelningar fyller väl sin plats vid sidan om andra tolkningar av symfonierna".
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2022, nr. 66
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Andrew Mellor
2022, nr. 66
"Brahms' fire symfonier er nok den mest perfekt afbalancerede cyklus i historien. Fra at vove sig ind i løvens hule i den første symfoni, udforskede Brahms en verden af lys og skygge i den and og beviste sin næsten ubesværede melodiøsitet i den tredje. Fjerde er et passende punktum - kulminationen på alle Brahms' symfoniske idealer i en hyldest til både Beethoven og Bach. Hvis der er én ting, man kan forvente af Fischer, så er det et uventede. Efter 25 års samarbejde med Danmarks Underholdningsorkester har den ungarske dirigent udviklet et tillidsforhold til musikerne, som han aldrig har været i stand til at opnå i andre orkestre".
2022 Awards
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Andrew Farach-Colton
2022 Awards
"While not all of Adám Fischer's many interpretative gambles pay off, the vast majority do, reflecting a thorough and fresh rethinking of these scores ... In general, Fischer follows Brahms's markings with care, although there are times when he goes his own way ... Fischer's pursuit of textural transparency, coupled with his penchant for breezy tempos, is most succesful in the Second Symphony ... Fischer's Third also has much to recommend it ... If you want a quick sense of Fischer and the DCO's cycle, start with the ... Fourth Symphony ... On first hearing I was put off by the way the DCO horns play the opening of the second movement as if it were a child's sing-song taumt ... It's these kinds of surprising and often illuminating interpretative ideas that mek Fischer's cycle worth hearing, stunted strings and all".
2009 October
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Calum MacDonald
2009 October
"This is certainly one of the most refulgent Brahms symphony sets, in terms of orchestral sound and recording quality, that I've ever experienced. Simon Rattle has clearly forged a deep bond with the Berlin Philharmonic during his tenure, and the playing is never less than superb, with every section of the orchestra ideally responsive".
2008 October
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Richard Whitehouse
2008 October
"In so far as ultimate recommendation is the issue, this set cannot be ranked with those above ... Yet the best of the cycle ... suggests Rattle is well able to reconcile the essence of music grounded in its past with a present-day reality hardly predisposed to such sovereign abstraction".
2018 April
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Andrew Farach-Colton
2018 April
"Ticciati's [recording] is lean and dazzlingly tranparent ... Impressive, too, is the orchestra's ability to render these details with such a fine balance of precision and expressive brio ... The woodwinds are marvellously characterful ... There's much to admire in the recordings beyond the stellar playing of the SCO and Linn's state-of-the-art engineering. Ticciati comes to these symphonies with a veritable flood of fresh ideas. Admittedly, not all are equally convincing, but there's hardly a dull note, either".
2013 October
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Richard Osborne (f. 1943)
2013 October
"Vurdering: Recording of the month - Vurdering: Gramophone choice" - "Chailly belongs to that select group of conductors on record who direct all four Brahms symphonies equally well".
2012 April
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Nigel Simeone
2012 April
"Vurdering: IRR outstanding" - "This is a remarkable new Brahms cycle: one of the most fiery, original and thought-provoking sets of the symphonies to have appeared ... played on modern instruments ... I should say at once that these also are among the most thrilling Brahms performances of recent years. Hearing Andrew Manze's set of these masterpieces, I feel as if I have been on a fascinating and stirring journey of rediscovery".
2012 July
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Richard Osborne (f. 1943)
2012 July
"This is a refreshingly classical Brahms First, the best of the four performances, and Manze's nicely infected reading of the Second Symphony, the egrigious horn sound notwithstanding, is not far behind. Elsewhere there is pleasure to be had from the finale of the Third and the Scherzo of the Fourth".
2018 Awards
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Richard Osborne (f. 1943)
2018 Awards
"Editor's choice: The blend of clarity, intimacy and power the engineers have been able to achieve here fits the lustre and glow of these Staatskapelle performances like a glove ... These are not 'here today, gone tomorrow' performances, as so many latter-day Brahms recordings are. They embody deeper memories and seek out larger horizons, as Brahms himself did when he created these astonishing works".
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