This page lists all recordings of Tragic Overture, Op. 81, by Johannes Brahms (1833-97) on CD, SACD, DVD & download (MP3 & FLAC). Generally, more recent releases are listed first, but with priority given to those that are in stock. |
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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Romantic Overtures - Vol. 1
During the 1950s, 60s and 70s, Decca recorded a number of albums with some of its key conductors of Overtures. Many of these were singled out by the press for their terrific sound quality (the fabled ‘Decca Sound’) and for their often adventurous programming. Some of them also included entr’actes and intermezzi. Prized as collectors’ items, many of the original LPs exchange hands at high prices. And most of these reissues, in Decca Eloquence’s ‘Romantic Overtures’ series appear in CD, in part or whole, for the first time. Romantic Overtures – Volume 1 includes Kurt Herbert Adler’s extremely rare 1978 LP entitled ‘Overture’ and is a virtual feast of curiosities: Nicolai’s Tempelritter, Goldmark’s Merlin, Goetz’s Francesca von Rimini… The album concludes with Zubin Mehta’s Vienna Philharmonic recording of Brahms’s Tragic Overture. Recorded in 1976 at the sessions for the composer’s First Symphony it was deemed too long to fit on the LP and here receives its first international CD release. | 
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Vintage Karajan recordings of Brahms with the Vienna Philharmonic and Philharmonia orchestras, re-mastered and available at super budge price. |
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This CD follows the very successful release of Brahms’ Symphony No.1 by Simone Young and the Philharmoniker Hamburg; “Powerful Brahms from Hamburg.” Gramophone. This performance was recorded in the Laeiszhalle in Hamburg in 2010. “I like the gradual gain of momentum through the Allegro towards the impassioned second subject and Simone Young holds back just enough at cadence points to acknowledge their importance. The rarely heard bridge back to the exposition repeat is particularly convincing, as though Brahms is weighing his ideas on a set of scales.” Gramophone Magazine, September 2012 “Almost from the Second Symphony's amply swaying, golden-toned opening bars, it is clear that this is going to be a full-blooded traditionalist reading, unalloyed by 'period performance' scruples. At the same time, Young has evidently reconsidered many of the interpretative habits the score has acquired over time, and rejected some.” BBC Music Magazine, November 2012 **** “Where Simone Young is at her strongest is in the sense of flow in the music. The feel of organic development and narrative progression in the twenty minutes of the first movement is nicely prepared and executed, with a secure sense of connection from beginning to end...This is a Brahms Symphony No. 2 which is very fine, and will grow on you with time as it has with me.” MusicWeb International, August 2012 | | | (also available to download from $10.50) | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Houston Symphony, Christopher Eschenbach | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Recorded: Royal Festival Hall, London, 7 October 1984 "Thank goodness for this Tennstedt Schubert…inspiring addition to the catalogue…The LPO play with warmth and assurance…" Gramophone “…Klaus Tennstedt in his element with an entrancing account of Weber's Oberon Overture, gritty Brahms Tragic Overture, and an exhilarating Schubert Nine, the 'Great C major'. Warmth and generosity of spirit suffuse this music-making…” BBC Music Magazine, May 2007 ***** | | | (also available to download from $10.50) | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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(Recorded 1956 & 1954) ‘In the Brahms, Oistrakh and Fournier make an incomparable team. The eloquence of Fournier’s phrasing and Oistrakh’s golden tone are beyond praise. Helped by a first-class recording and excellent orchestral playing, Oistrakh’s performance of the Bruch is a winner.’ (The Gramophone) | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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“This is a late-summer idyll of a performance, easily paced, nicely judged and warmly played. For first-time buyers it will provide unalloyed pleasure”. Gramophone on 8.557429: “Nonetheless, these are humane, affectionate performances from which browsers and bargain-minded first-time buyers should derive a good deal of pleasure”. Gramophone | | | (also available to download from $6.00) | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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