Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D major

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Labels such as LSO Live bring altered priorities and fresh perspectives. When did a studio-based company last contemplate recording Brahms's Double Concerto with soloists drawn from within the... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Release Date: 12th Jan 2004
Catalogue No: LSO0043
Label: LSO Live
Series: Haitink Complete Brahms Symphonies
Length: 74 minutes

Gramophone Magazine

March 2004

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

Work length33:39

Album only

Bernard Haitink, Gordan Nikolitch, London Symphony Orchestra, Tim Hugh

I. Allegro

Track length17:26

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II. Andante

Track length7:19

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III. Vivace non troppo

Track length8:54

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

Work length41:06

Album only

Bernard Haitink, London Symphony Orchestra

I. Allegro non troppo

Track length16:00

Album only

II. Adagio non troppo

Track length9:51

$1.60

$1.95

III. Allegretto grazioso

Track length5:34

$1.05

$1.30

IV. Allegro con spirito

Track length9:41

$1.60

$1.95

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Favourites, Johannes Brahms - Orchestral & Choral Works

James surveys recordings of orchestral and choral works by Brahms, and selects some of his favourites.

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2010

Labels such as LSO Live bring altered priorities and fresh perspectives. When did a studio-based company last contemplate recording Brahms's Double Concerto with soloists drawn from within the orchestra? Brahms wrote the work with Joachim and his colleague in the Joachim Quartet, Robert Hausmann, in mind. It has a chamber-music dimension to it, yet it's also a work of real symphonic power. Haitink's accompaniment is superb, allowing the soloists the space for the lyric outpourings at the heart of the work. The sweet-toned Gordan Nikolitch and the burlier-sounding, though endlessly responsive Tim Hugh are perfectly matched, and grow ever closer and more eloquent as the romantic, at times almost operatic, colloquy of the two opening movements unfolds. After which, slippered ease and remembered passion is the order of the day in a sweetly judged reading of the finale. The recording, rich and immediate, brings out the tactile quality of Brahms's writing.
Haitink's 1990 Boston recording of the symphony has a certain Mediterranean glow to it.
In this imposing and beautifully shaded new LSO performance, we return north again with a reading that's weightier and even more cleanly articulated than his 1973 Amsterdam version.

November 2014

An expressive performance of the Concerto for Violin and Cello from LSO principals Gordan Nikolitch and Tim Hugh. The opening cello statement is rich in tone, and the second movement is full of eloquence, not least from the LSO under Bernard Haitink. It's coupled with an equally splendid performance of the Second Symphony, with some great brass playing at the end of the work.

6th October 2014

This is often called the sunniest of Brahms’s four symphonies, but the more you listen to it the more ambiguous and shadowy it seems.

Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D major

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