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Neeme Jarvi, conductor of the Estonian State Symphony Orchestra until his emigration to the United States last year, has exuberance and knowhow with German, Estonian and Russian music. One looks forward to hearing how he fares with the Mozart or Haydn symphonies after this program of Brahms' Academic Festival Overture...
The concert begins with a romantic oddity. Brahms was well-known as a composer of symphonies andlieder, it came as a shock to the German people when they heard a medley of their university songs composed by a master. Jarvi conducted the Academic Festival Overture, written after Brahms received an...
Never having attended college, the German composer shows his anti-elitism in his most popular orchestral work. Moreover, the overture came as Brahms' response to Breslau's tag for him--"the foremost composer of serious music today": the songs were about wine, women and sport. The last tune before the...
Brahms: Double Concerto (Angel). Perlman and Mstislav Rostropovich in a noble and ardent performance.
Brahms: Four Symphonies--James Levine and the Chicago Symphony come close to definitive readings--if anything in music is definitive--of these concert hall staples. They capture the intellectual and passionate Brahms both, as only Bruno Walter and Wilhelm Furtwangler have done it before. (RCA)