Brahms: The Symphonies, Piano Concertos, Violin Concerto & Double Concerto

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Release Date: 4th Mar 2016
Catalogue No: 88875123012
Label: Sony
Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68

Work length47:07

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New York Philharmonic
Zubin Mehta

I. Un poco sostenuto - Allegro

Track length14:40

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II. Andante sostenuto

Track length9:58

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III. Un poco Allegretto e grazioso

Track length4:58

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IV. Adagio - Più Andante - Allegro non troppo, ma con brio - Più Allegro

Track length17:31

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Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 73

Work length39:34

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New York Philharmonic
Zubin Mehta

I. Allegro non troppo

Track length16:04

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II. Adagio non troppo - L'istesso tempo, ma grazioso

Track length9:15

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III. Allegretto grazioso (Quasi Andantino) - Presto ma non assai

Track length5:21

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IV. Allegro con spirito

Track length8:54

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Brahms: Symphony No. 3 in F major, Op. 90

Work length35:41

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New York Philharmonic
Zubin Mehta

I. Allegro con brio

Track length10:27

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II. Andante

Track length9:36

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III. Poco Allegretto

Track length6:31

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IV. Allegro

Track length9:07

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Brahms: Variations on a theme by Haydn for orchestra, Op. 56a 'St Anthony Variations'

Work length18:35

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New York Philharmonic
Zubin Mehta

Thema - Chorale St. Antoni - Andante

Track length2:11

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Variation I - Poco piu animato

Track length1:16

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Variation II - Più vivace

Track length1:02

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Variation III - Con moto

Track length2:03

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Variation IV - Andante con moto

Track length1:57

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Variation V - Vivace

Track length0:54

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Variation VI - Vivace

Track length1:26

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Variation VII - Grazioso

Track length3:07

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Variation VIII - Presto non troppo

Track length1:00

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Finale - Andante

Track length3:39

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Brahms: Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98

Work length41:37

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New York Philharmonic
Zubin Mehta

I. Allegro non troppo

Track length12:58

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II. Andante moderato

Track length11:46

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III. Allegro giocoso - Poco meno presto

Track length6:27

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IV. Allegro energico e passionato - Più Allegro

Track length10:26

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Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15

Work length50:23

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New York Philharmonic, Daniel Barenboim (piano)
Zubin Mehta

I. Maestoso - Poco più moderato

Track length23:19

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II. Adagio

Track length14:30

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III. Rondo - Allegro non troppo

Track length12:34

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Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 83

Work length49:07

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Daniel Barenboim (piano)
New York Philharmonic
Zubin Mehta

I. Allegro non troppo

Track length17:53

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II. Allegro appassionato

Track length9:07

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III. Andante - Più Adagio - Tempo I

Track length12:56

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IV. Allegretto grazioso - Un poco più presto

Track length9:11

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Brahms: Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 77

Work length40:08

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Isaac Stern (violin), Joseph Robinson (oboe)
New York Philharmonic
Zubin Mehta

I. Allegro non troppo

Track length22:56

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II. Adagio

Track length9:25

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III. Allegro giocoso, ma non troppo vivace - Poco più presto

Track length7:47

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Brahms: Double Concerto for Violin & Cello in A minor, Op. 102

Work length33:38

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Pinchas Zukerman (violin), Lynn Harrell (cello)
New York Philharmonic
Zubin Mehta

I. Allegro

Track length17:02

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II. Andante

Track length7:56

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III. Vivace non troppo

Track length8:40

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Brahms: Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80

Work length10:21

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New York Philharmonic
Zubin Mehta

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Celebrating Zubin Mehta, long-term Music Director of the New York Philharmonic.

First CD release of Mehta’s Brahms symphony cycle of 1979–1982.

All Brahms’s concertos recorded with Daniel Barenboim, Pinchas Zukerman, Isaac Stern and Lynn Harrell.

8-CD edition with Symphonies 1–4, Haydn Variations and Academic Festival Overture newly remastered from the original tapes.

Facsimile LP sleeves and labels, booklet with full discographical notes.

“I became a conductor”, Zubin Mehta revealed in his autobiography, “because deep down I wanted to conduct Brahms’s four symphonies and Richard Strauss’s tone poems.” To celebrate the maestro’s 80th birthday in 2016, Sony Classical is pleased to present the first-ever release on CD of Mehta’s cycle, made in the late 1970s and early 80s with the New York Philharmonic.

Born in Bombay in 1936, Zubin Mehta was just 18 when he went to Vienna – the adopted home of Brahms – and became a pupil of the Music Academy’s legendary conducting teacher Hans Swarowsky. In 1958 he won the Liverpool International Conducting Competition as well as a prize at Tanglewood, and within three years he had already conducted the Philharmonic orchestras of Vienna, Berlin and Israel. In 1978 Mehta succeeded Pierre Boulez as Music Director of the New York Philharmonic, commencing a tenure that lasted 13 years, still the longest in the history of America’s oldest orchestra.

Right from the start, Mehta’s programming in New York centered on Viennese works, repertoire from that city where, in his own words, he had experienced his “musical coming-of-age”. In the first few years of his music directorship, Mehta conducted the Philharmonic in all of the Brahms symphonies, “Haydn” Variations and Academic Festival Overture and recorded them for American Columbia. Gramophone’s reviewer lauded Mehta’s “superior degree of orchestral control”.

During the same period, with his close friends and collaborators Daniel Barenboim, Pinchas Zukerman, Isaac Stern and Lynn Harrell, Mehta and his New York orchestra recorded all the Brahms concertos. After hearing Barenboim and Mehta in the First Piano Concerto in concert in February 1979, when this recording was made, the New York Times wrote that “conductor and pianist merged in the opening movement into one indivisible entity, so that one’s attention was concentrated on the power and beauty of this familiar music in a way that rarely happens … The Adagio was one long, unbroken song, filled with exquisite interplay among the piano and orchestral soloists.”

Zubin Mehta’s Brahms cycle appeared on LP between 1979 and 1984, but it has never been issued before now on CD. In fact, the recording of Symphony No. 1 – probably for contractual reasons (Decca had recently issued an LP of the First with Mehta conducting the Vienna Philharmonic) – was not released on LP at all. Needless to add, every item in this 8-CD box – featuring facsimile LP sleeves and labels, plus full discographical notes – has been newly remastered from the original tapes.

Brahms: The Symphonies, Piano Concertos, Violin Concerto & Double Concerto

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