Brahms - Symphonies 1 & 3
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Label: Australian Eloquence
Cat No: ELQ4825499
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 17th August 2018
Contents
Artists
ConcertgebouworkestLondon Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor
Eduard van BeinumWorks
Symphony no.1 in C minor, op.68Symphony no.3 in F major, op.90
Artists
ConcertgebouworkestLondon Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor
Eduard van BeinumAbout
There are two Van Beinum studio accounts of the Third Symphony: dating from 1946, this is the first of them, made by Decca in the conductor’s first sessions with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, just two months after his impromptu concert debut with them: substituting at the last minute for Albert Coates, Van Beinum happened to be on business in London, but he did not have his tails with him and conducted the concert dressed in a brown suit. In the hands of Van Beinum, the Third is treated not as an emotional rollercoaster, but as a powerful and finely crafted statement of Brahms’s respect for the composers who preceded him, not least Robert Schumann: in the symphony’s first movement, Brahms pays poignant tribute to the memory of the man who had nurtured his career at its outset by quoting from the latter’s ‘Rhenish’ Third Symphony.
Van Beinum expressed approval of the LPO’s autonomy of organisation and spirit: ‘this means that the members of the orchestra will, so to speak, be rapping each other over the knuckles if necessary. They feel responsible, which is very important’. The respect was evidently mutual, because the conductor was soon invited back for regular concerts, and indeed Decca recordings, and in 1949 he became the LPO’s chief conductor.
The technical discipline and idiomatic flow of this Brahms Third pays its own testimony to the quickly achieved rapport between conductor and orchestra, later recalled by a former LPO violist: ‘Firstly, he won the full trust and cooperation of the players. This he did through his musical authority and his human understanding. To him, the musicians he worked with were not anonymous employees of a musical organisation, but artists who more or less shared his own tastes and standards.’
‘There is a good sense of the concert hall about the Van Beinum recording; not the feeling of a confined studio. The colour is clear, and the range of tone is wide ... throughout one notices how clearly the inner parts come through which is good testimony to conductor and engineers alike. The third and fourth movements show the performers at their best.’ – Gramophone, December 1946 (Symphony no.3)
‘Van Beinum keeps his No. 1 suitably impressive without being portentous ... [he] achieves liveliness of effects by his magnificent drive; his breadth of phrasing does not hamper forward movement ... The individual colouring of the instruments is notably clear and attractive.’ – Gramophone, June 1952 (Symphony no.1)
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