This page lists all recordings of Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80, by Johannes Brahms (1833-97) on CD & DVD. Generally, more recent CDs and DVDs are listed first, but with priority given to items that are in stock. |
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Wiener Philharmoniker, Leonard Bernstein Directed by Humphrey Burton | | | DG Unitel - 0734354 (DVD Video) Normally: £19.99 (£17.01 ex. VAT) Special: £16.99 (£14.46 ex. VAT) |
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London Philharmonic Orchestra, Marin Alsop “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 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Alexis Weissenberg (piano) Orchestra Sinfonica della RAI di Torino, Peter Maag | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Concertgebouw Orchestra, Willem Mengelberg | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Boston Symphony Orchestra, Serge Koussevitzky | 
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Brahms: | Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80 arranged by Edwin Lemare | Buxtehude: | Prelude, Fugue and Chaconne in C, BuxWV137 Praeludium in G minor, BuxWV148 | Dupré: | Prelude & Fugue in G minor, Op. 7 No. 3 | Eben: | Hommage à Buxtehude (1987) | Gade, N: | Tone Piece in F major from Tre Tonestykker, Op. 22 | Karg-Elert: | Passacaglia & Fugue on B A C H, Op. 150 | Rheinberger: | Fantasia on ‘Tonus Peregrinus’ from Sonata No 4 in A minor Op. 98 | Vierne: | Pièces de Fantasie, 3rd suite, Op. 54: No. 6, Carillon de Westminster |
Christopher Herrick (Organ of Haderslev Cathedral, Denmark) Christopher Herrick’s enduring Organ Fireworks series on Hyperion is one of the most comprehensive and popular
collections of repertoire in existence. For this twelfth volume he turns to the great organ of Haderslev Cathedral in
Denmark, and performs a fascinating range of works with his usual triumphal panache.
A number of these pieces have a Danish connection, including two spirited works by Buxtehude who probably grew up
in Denmark, and Tre Tonestykker by Niels Wilhelm Gade, a native of Copenhagen who was admired by Mendelssohn.
The third of Dupré’s Trois Préludes et Fugues is among the best-known and most popular of his works, notwithstanding
its fearful technical difficulties. The final page, in which the notes hurtle towards the magnificent final cadence, places
this among the most memorable of all fugues for organ.
The Czech composer Petr Eben (1929–2007) is represented by his Hommage à Buxtehude. |
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Berlin State Opera Orchestra, Otto Klemperer If ‘slow tempos’ were a significant characteristic of Klemperer’s final years as a conductor, in his earlier days, as demonstrated on these 1927-28 recordings, he could set fizzing tempos, galvanising his performers with electric gestures. Above all, however, Klemperer was a master structuralist, always focussed on the music, its construction and direction. His recording of the Brahms Symphony No. 1, made over seven months, is notable not only for athletic vitality but for ecstatic singing lines and subtle integration of light and shade. The account of the Prelude to Act I of Tristan und Isolde is remarkably rapt while that of Siegfried Idyll is intimate and gentle. |
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Black Dyke Band, Nicholas Childs “The Black Dyke Band are certainly the most successful as well as the most famous brass band of them all and to have retained their stature for 150 years against a backdrop of social change that has eaten away at the very core of their existence is a quite remarkable achievement….They are still at the very top of their game.” MusicWeb International | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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Robert Quinney (Westminster Cathedral organ, Henry Willis III, 1922-32) Recorded at Westminster Cathedral, London, 18 - 21 May 2004 "It’s quite an achievement to pull off orchestral transcriptions for the organ that don’t have you missing the original, but Robert Quinney manages this on the magnificent Westminster Cathedral instrument. He utterly
convinces that even Wagner’s Meistersinger overture works as an organ piece in its own right – and finds
translucent textures rather than walls of sound." Gramophone Magazine  BBC Music Magazine
Instrumental Choice - December 2006 |
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