Brahms: The Symphonies Riccardo Chailly & Gewandhausorchester Leipzig

• Johannes Brahms (1833-1897): Symphony No.1 in C minor, op.68
• 11. Un poco sostenuto - Allegro - Meno allegro15:27
• 22. Andante sostenuto08:22
• 33. Un poco allegretto e grazioso04:25
• 44. Adagio - Piu andante - Allegro non troppo, ma con brio - Piu allegro15:40
• Symphony No.3 in F major, op.90
• 51. Allegro con brio - Un poco sostenuto - Tempo I11:44
• 62. Andante08:17
• 73. Poco allegretto06:06
• 84. Allegro08:15
• Symphony No.2 in D major, op.73
• 91. Allegro non troppo17:49
• 102. Adagio non troppo - L'istesso tempo, ma grazioso08:26
• 113. Allegretto grazioso ( Quasi andantino) - Presto ma non assai05:06
• 124. Allegro con spirito08:52
• Symphony No.4 in E minor, op.98
• 131. Allegro non troppo11:57
• 142. Andante moderato10:43
• 153. Allegro giocoso - Poco meno presto - Tempo I05:55
• 164. Allegro energico e passionato - Più allegro09:24
• 171. Alternative opening00:47
• Tragic Overture, op.81
• 18Allegro ma non troppo12:46
• Intermezzo, op.116 no.4
• 19Adagio04:41
• Intermezzo, op.117 no.1
• 20Andante moderato04:49
• 21Theme Chorale St. Antoni01:54
• 22Variation I Poco più animato01:14
• 23Variation II Più vivace00:54
• 24Variation III Con moto01:39
• 25Variation IV Andante con moto01:55
• 26Variation V Vivace00:51
• 27Variation VI Vivace01:05
• 28Variation VII Grazioso02:31
• 29Variation VIII Presto non troppo00:59
• 30Finale Andante03:45
• Liebeslieder-Walzer from Opp.52 & 65
• 31No.1 (Rede, Mädchen, allzuliebes)01:12
• 32No.2 (Am Gesteine rauscht die Flut)00:44
• 33No.4 (Wie des Abends schöne Röte)00:43
• 34No.6 (Ein kleiner, hübscher Vogel nahm den Flug)02:40
• 35No.5 (Die grüne Hopfenranke)01:42
• 36No.9 (Nagen am Herzen fühl ich ein Gift mir)01:25
• 37No.11 (Nein, es ist nicht auszukommen)00:52
• 38No.8 (Wenn so lind dein Auge mir)01:26
• 39No.9 (Am Donaustrande, da steht ein Haus)02:15
• Symphony No.1 in C minor, op.68
• 40Symphony No.1 in C minor, op.6808:23
• Academic Festival Overture, op.80
• 41Academic Festival Overture, Op. 8009:24
• Hungarian Dances
• 42No.1 Allegro molto02:53
• 43No.3 Allegretto02:09
• 44No.10 Presto01:54
• Total Runtime03:54:00

Info for Brahms: The Symphonies

Following the 2011 landmark Beethoven cycle, Riccardo Chailly returns with a new perspective on Brahms. The recording is released to coincide with residencies in London, Paris, Leipzig and Vienna of the complete Brahms symphonies and concertos.

It is a quarter of a century since Chailly recorded the symphonies with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. He 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’s lifetime, principally Felix Weingartner and one of his Gewandhaus predecessors, Bruno Walter.

This comprehensive overview of Brahms’s orchestral works includes several rarities, among them world premieres of two piano intermezzi orchestrated by Paul Klengel (brother of the Gewandhaus’s long-standing principal cellist Julius Klengel); the Liebeslieder Walzer from Op. 52/65; the original first performance version of the Andante of Symphony No. 1 and the even rarer revised opening of the Fourth Symphony.

The set is completed with the Tragic and Academic Festival overtures, Haydn Variations and the three Hungarian Dances orchestrated by Brahms himself.

The Chailly/Gewandhausorchester Beethoven cycle won critical plaudits, including five-star reviews in both the Independent – “… the effect is revelatory … restoring a dash and brio to works whose revolutionary aspects can once again be clearly glimpsed”

Chailly’s Brahms is similarly highly regarded by leading critics, “Chailly has worked well to create a style of interpretation which mixes the orchestra’s 250-year-old tradition with thoroughly modern, historically informed performance practice. This made for no-nonsense, unstuffy, youthful Brahms.” Musical Criticism 2007

The Daily Telegraph reviewing his Prom’s 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 finale’s fusion of structural grandeur and instrumental detail was conveyed with a masterly sense of direction and purpose.”

Leonidas Kavakos and Riccardo Chailly have also specially recorded the Brahms Violin Concerto in Leipzig for release as a separate album due in October 2013. Kavakos will perform the concerto in all four tour venues in October/November 2013 – Leipzig; London; Paris and Vienna – as well as the Brahms Double Concerto.

The outstanding pedigree of the Chailly/Leipzig partnership in Brahms was last seen in the award-winning set of the piano concertos Chailly recorded with Nelson Freire, the Gramophone “Recording of the Year” in 2007.

This eagerly anticipated new set celebrates Chailly’s recently renewed commitment to the Gewandhaus, an orchestra he has well and truly put back on the musical map, in music that is at the heart of the repertoire for both conductor and ensemble.

'This was a pair of inspiring, enlivening concerts given by the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra… the applause and foot-stamping were ecstatic” (Geoffrey Norris, Daily Telegraph)

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Riccardo Chailly, conductor

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