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Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra released Symphonies Nos. 1-4 and a large variety of other works by Johannes Brahms between 2009 and 2021. On this box set you will find all of these highly acclaimed Channel Classics recordings. Brahms worked on his First Symphony for many years, a long process driven by extremely diverse musical impulses. The Guardian reviewed Fischer's recording as Inchmonumental in every sense of the wordInch. In the Second Symphony, which took him only a summer to compose, Brahms shows us his masterful skill in developing large-scale architecture from the simplest motifs. Iván Fischer refers to the beginning of Brahms' Third Symphony as being InchA life's story in ten bars - there is no more magnificent opening of a symphony than the first 34 seconds of Brahms' Third.Inch Many consider the Fourth Symphony to be the finest of all romantic symphonies. And what a wonderful start a fragmented melody like a hovering leaf blown up and down by the wind. Iván Fischer InchNever has tenderness been composed more movingly.Inch BBC Music Magazine gave this recording a Double 5-Star review, noting that InchThis is an orchestra whose players listen to each other intently.Inch Album Tracks 1. Hungarian Dances for orchestra~No. 14 2. Variations on a Theme by Joseph Haydn Op. 56A~Theme. Andante 3. Variations on a Theme by Joseph Haydn Op. 56A~Variation 1. Poco più animato 4. Variations on a Theme by Joseph Haydn Op. 56A~Variation 2. Più vivace 5. Variations on a Theme by Joseph Haydn Op. 56A~Variation 3. Con moto 6. Variations on a Theme by Joseph Haydn Op. 56A~Variation 4. Andante con moto 7. Variations on a Theme by Joseph Haydn Op. 56A~Variation 5. Vivace 8. Variations on a Theme by Joseph Haydn Op. 56A~Variation 6. Vivace 9. Variations on a Theme by Joseph Haydn Op. 56A~Variation 7. Grazioso 10. Variations on a Theme by