Brahms: Symphonies [3 CD]

Brahms: Symphonies [3 CD]

Following the 2011 landmark Beethoven cycle, Riccardo Chailly returns with a recording of the complete Brahms symphonies and orchestral works including the overtures and Haydn Variations.<br><br>Rarities include world premiere recordings of two piano intermezzi orchestrated by Paul Klengel (brother of the Gewandhaus long-standing principal cellist Julius Klengel); the 9 Liebeslieder waltzes; the original first performance version of the Andante of Symphony No. 1 and the even rarer revised opening of the Fourth Symphony.<br><br>Chailly has radically rethought his approach to these works, re-examining the scores and returning to the recorded interpretations of a generation of conductors alive during Brahms lifetime, principally Felix Weingartner and one of his Gewandhaus predecessors Bruno Walter.<br><br>Chaillys Brahms is highly regarded by leading critics Chailly has worked well to create a style of interpretation which mixes the orchestras 250-year-old tradition with thoroughly modern, historically informed performance practice. This made for no-nonsense, unstuffy, youthful Brahms. Musical Criticism 2007<br><br>The Daily Telegraph reviewing his Proms performance of the Fourth Symphony wrote Chailly is not a conductor to linger unnecessarily, and he injected the first movement with an uncommon surge and passion…the finales fusion of structural grandeur and instrumental detail was conveyed with a masterly sense of direction and purpose.