Brahms & Schumann: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 4

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the glory of this disc is Brahms 1 - an Andante of unalloyed bliss. — BBC Music Magazine, June 2011, 4 out of 5 stars/1 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 14th Mar 2011
Catalogue No: ELQ4804325
Label: Eloquence
Length: 2 hours 19 minutes

Gramophone Magazine

August 2011

Re-issue of the Month

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

Work length42:53

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Wiener Philharmoniker
Josef Krips
Recorded: 1956-10
Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna

1. Un poco sostenuto - Allegro - Meno allegro

Track length12:42

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2. Andante sostenuto

Track length9:25

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3. Un poco allegretto e grazioso

Track length4:50

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4. Adagio - Piu andante - Allegro non troppo, ma con brio - Piu allegro

Track length15:56

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Schumann: Symphony No. 1 in B flat major, Op. 38 'Spring'

Work length28:55

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London Symphony Orchestra
Josef Krips
Recorded: 1957-05
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

1. Andante un poco maestoso - Allegro molto vivace

Track length9:54

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2. Larghetto

Track length5:52

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3. Scherzo (Molto vivace)

Track length5:51

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4. Allegro animato e grazioso

Track length7:18

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

Work length40:18

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London Symphony Orchestra
Josef Krips
Recorded: 1950-04-20
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

1. Allegro non troppo

Track length11:49

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2. Andante moderato

Track length11:30

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3. Allegro giocoso - Poco meno presto - Tempo I

Track length6:46

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4. Allegro energico e passionato - Più allegro

Track length10:13

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Schumann: Symphony No. 4 in D minor, Op. 120

Work length27:04

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London Symphony Orchestra
Josef Krips
Recorded: 1956-10
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

1. Ziemlich langsam - Lebhaft

Track length9:30

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2. Romanze (Ziemlich langsam)

Track length5:03

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3. Scherzo

Track length4:45

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4. Langsam - Lebhaft - Schneller - Presto

Track length7:46

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Born in Vienna in April 1902, the cheery-looking Josef Krips seems to have been pre-destined to achieve eminence in the Viennese classics. He recorded with both, the Wiener Philharmoniker and the key London orchestras for Decca in the 1940s, 50s and 60s and the interpretations have genuine expressive power while remaining devoid of exaggeration or affectation.

Here we have Krips giving us the First and Fourth symphonies, respectively of Brahms and Schumann. With the Wiener Philharmoniker he whips up an almost uncontainable sense of thrill in Brahms’s First. ‘I wrote the Symphony in that first flush of spring which carries a man away even in his old age, and comes over him anew every year’ wrote Schumann of his First Symphony. Krips’s way with the work is unforced and natural, and of his two recordings of Schumann’s Fourth (in 1952 and 1957), the second is included here.

This issue forms part of a series of five reissues devoted to the art of Josef Krips.

Recording producers: John Culshaw (Brahms No. 1); Victor Olof (Brahms No. 4); James Walker (Schumann No. 1); Christopher Whelan (Schumann No. 4);

Balance engineers: James Brown (Brahms No. 1); unidentified (Brahms No. 4); Ken Cress (Schumann No. 4); Gordon Parry (Schumann No. 4)

Recording locations: Sofiensaal, Vienna, Austria, October 1956 (Brahms No. 1); Kingsway Hall, London, United Kingdom, April 1950 (Brahms No. 4), October 1956 (Schumann No. 4), May 1957 (Schumann No. 1)

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June 2011

the glory of this disc is Brahms 1 - an Andante of unalloyed bliss.

Superb… There are no histrionics about Krips’s reading, in which everything is beautifully proportioned and carefully calculated. The music moves forward to its natural climaxes, in each of the four movements, with a wonderful feeling of inevitability that leads logically and dramatically to the crowning achievement of the great Finale. The orchestral playing is sensitive, vigorous, and poised to a nicety, and the recording does full justice to it.

Brahms & Schumann: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 4

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