Brahms - Symphony No.1, Haydn Variations, etc | Channel Classics CCSSA28309

Brahms - Symphony No.1, Haydn Variations, etc

Label: Channel Classics

Cat No: CCSSA28309

Format: Hybrid SACD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 28th September 2009

Contents

Artists

Budapest Festival Orchestra

Conductor

Ivan Fischer

Works

Brahms, Johannes

Hungarian Dances (21), WoO1
» no.14 in D minor (orch. Ivan Fischer)
Symphony no.1 in C minor, op.68
Variations on a theme by Haydn, op.56a 'St Anthony Variations'

Artists

Budapest Festival Orchestra

Conductor

Ivan Fischer

About

Brahms never made a secret of the inspiration he drew from Beethoven’s symphonies, but before he published his First Symphony - inspired by Beethoven’s Fifth and Ninth - he had struggled for no less than fourteen years with it. In the meantime, he wrote many more pieces and his Variations on a theme by Haydn, for instance, are considered to be a preliminary exercise before venturing on to the First Symphony.

The opening piece of this recording, Hungarian Dance No.14, goes back to Brahms as a young café pianist, when he and his father earned a bit on the side in bars in the red-light district of Hamburg and where he first heard Hungarian gipsy music. He acquired a lifelong passion for gipsy music.

An orchestra musician is an artist, not an employee, and artists must be given the chance to take initiatives and to be creative. Only an orchestra of true artists - making music as a highly disciplined team - is able to realize the dreams of the composers and pass on an uplifting experience to the audience, touching all listeners deep in their heart. This is our aim for which the Budapest Festival Orchestra has been created.” - Iván Fischer

This is a stunning interpretation of Brahms Symphony No.1 – once again Ivan Fisher forces the the listener to re-appraise familiar repertoire.

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