Brahms / Gavle Symphony Orchestra / Martin - Johannes Brahms: Serenades 1 & 2 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

This new recording by Gävle Symphony Orchestra with conductor Jaime Martín is a tribute to the work of Johannes Brahms (1833-1897). The art of Brahms has inspired countless of artists and composers since the 19th century up to our times. Arnold Schoenberg was one of the composers who greatly admired Brahms' work. Schoenberg was particularly fond of Brahms' 1st Piano Quartet (Op. 25) and when Otto Klemperer suggested him to orchestrate it in 1937, Schoenberg took the task without hesitation. Schoenberg regarded his reworking of the Piano Quartet - often dubbed as 'Brahms' Fifth' - as an act of homage to Brahms, and he believed he had finally succeeded in addressing the composer's concerns about the original score. No wonder that Schoenberg's masterful arrangement has remained in the concert programs of symphony orchestras. English composer Sir Hubert Parry (1848-1918) wrote his orchestral work, Elegy for Johannes Brahms, in 1897 in memory of his recently deceased musical idol. This short symphonic movement, which makes some overt references to Brahms's music, was never performed in the composer's lifetime, and only received it's premiere after Parry's own death in 1918. After that, it languished unplayed until it was again resurrected in 1977. After decades of neglect, this recording is a manifestation of the recent growing interest in Parry's music. Gävle Symphony Orchestra, founded in Sweden in 1912, has a long and exciting history. Since 2013, the orchestra has enjoyed a fruitful musical partnership with principal conductor Jaime Martín, but the orchestra has also collaborated regularly with renowned international conductors. This is the orchestra's fourth album to be released by Ondine. Jaime Martín became the Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of Gävle Symphony Orchestra in 2013. During recent years orchestral engagements have led the rising conductor to co

This brilliant features a live recording of the Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique led by Sir John Elliot Gardiner performing Schubert's Symphony No. 5 and Brahms' Serenade No. 2 in A Major. The recorded concert took place in November 2016 inside the stunning acoustics of the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam. Schubert's Symphony No. 5 was written mainly in September 1816 and was completed on October 3 of that same year just six months after the completion of his prior symphony. In character, the writing is often said to resemble Mozart; Schubert was infatuated with the composer at the time he composed it. Brahms' second Serenade was written in 1859 and dedicated to Clara Schumann. The five movement work is scored for chamber orchestra, including double woodwinds but omitting violins, trumpets, trombones and percussion. Album Tracks 1. Symphony No. 5 in B-Flat Major, D. 485 2. I. Allegro 00 07 07 3. II. Andante Con Moto 00 10 28 4. III. Menuetto Allegro Molto 00 05 01 5. IV. Allegro Vivace 00 07 16 6. Serenade No. 2 in a Major, Op. 16 Johannes Brahms 7. I. Allegro Moderato 00 08 55 8. II. Scherzo Vivace 00 02 30 9. III. Adagio Non Troppo 00 08 05 10. IV. Quasi Menuetto and Trio 00 04 19 11. V. Rondo Allegro 00 06 03

Symphony No. 2 Brahms's Second Symphony is often called his InchPastoralInch. It was written during a happy holiday in Portschach in 1877. Brahms wrote to his friend in Vienna, the critic Eduard Hanslick InchThe Worthersee is virgin ground. Melodies fly around there, so that you have to take care not to step on them.Inch The work was premiered by the Vienna Philharmonic under the baton of Hans Richter in December 1877. It was a great success and the third movement had to be repeated. Jukka-Pekka Saraste became principal conductor of the WDR Symphony Orchestra at the beginning of the 2010/11 season. The orchestra and the conductor can already look back at many years of working successfully together. His recordings with WDR Symphony Orchestra for Profil Edition Gunter Hanssler have earned him high critical praise, and include Schoenberg's Pelleas and Melisande, Stravinsky's The Firebird, Brahms' Symphonies No. 1 and 3 as well as Mahler's 5th Symphony. Album Tracks 1. I. Allegro Non Troppo 2. II. Adagio Non Troppo 3. III. Allegretto Grazioso (Quasi Andante) 4. IV. Allegro Con Spirito 5. Thema. Chorale St. Antoni Andante 6. Variation I Poco Più Animato 7. Variation II Più Vivace 8. Variation III Con Moto 9. Variation IV Andante Con Moto 10. Variation V Vivace 11. Variation VI Vivace 12. Variation VII Grazioso 13. Variation VIII Presto Non Troppo 14. Finale Andante