Symphony No. 1 Johannes Brahms, Composer Thomas Zehetmair, Conductor Winterthur Musikkollegium Orchestra Symphony No. 2 Thomas Zehetmair, Conductor Johannes Brahms, Composer Winterthur Musikkollegium ...

In recordings taken from live performances, John Eliot Gardiner conducts the RCO in taut and purposeful readings Many years before he severed his connections with the period-instrumental ensembles and ...

Symphony No. 1 Johannes Brahms, Composer Boston Symphony Orchestra Andris Nelsons, Conductor Symphony No. 2 Boston Symphony Orchestra Johannes Brahms, Composer Andris Nelsons, Conductor Symphony No. 3 ...

Johannes Brahms can be forgiven for taking, by some accounts, anywhere from 14 to 21 years to complete his First Symphony. It was expected that he would follow in the mighty footsteps of that other ...

A bonus third disc is a real treat, containing a fine Haydn Variations.Riccardo Chailly's new recording of the Brahms symphonies offers a handsome introduction for newcomers as well as compelling and ...

One of the world's great conductors Riccardo Chailly turns his attention to Brahms' symphonies. John Suchet's Album of the Week, 7 October 2013. The collection also features world premieres of two ...

It is 20 years since Charles Mackerras made his groundbreaking recordings of the Brahms Symphonies with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. That kind of lean and hungry Brahms, influenced by ideas from ...

The Leipzig Gewandhaus' recording of Brahms' Symphonies has won the Recording of the Year Award at the Gramophone Awards 2014. Collecting the award from the London ceremony, Chailly praised the man ...

Riccardo Chailly's acclaimed 2011 recording of the complete Beethoven symphonic cycle reinstated the composer's original, faster tempos in place of the more lugubrious, sombre approach favoured by ...

It took Johannes Brahms fourteen years to complete Symphony No. 1 which was premiered in 1876. The Fourth Symphony was premiered nine years later in 1885. These masterpieces of the symphonic ...

After the great success of his Beethoven cycle, Christian Thielemann now turns with his new orchestra, the Staatskapelle Dresden, to the symphonic work of Johannes Brahms. Bonus features include: an ...