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Brahms: Symphony No 1 / Günter Wand, Chicago Symphony Orch


Release Date: 04/24/2009 
Label:  Rca Victor Red Seal Catalog #: 60428   Spars Code: DDD 
Composer:  Johannes Brahms
Conductor:  Günter Wand
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Number of Discs: 1 
Recorded in: Stereo 
Length: 0 Hours 46 Mins. 

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This CD is reissued by ArkivMusic.

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"...wonderful stuff...with a clearly attentive Chicago Symphony. It's an excellent performance, not quite as wild as his latest NDR release, but rock-solid in the first movement and very exciting in the finale." -- David Hurwitz, ClassicsToday.com [reviewing RCA 84588] "...wonderful stuff...with a clearly attentive Chicago Symphony. It's an excellent performance, not quite as wild as his latest NDR release, but rock-solid in the first movement and very exciting in the finale." -- David Hurwitz, ClassicsToday.com [reviewing RCA 84588] Read less

Works on This Recording

1. Symphony no 1 in C minor, Op. 68 by Johannes Brahms
Conductor:  Günter Wand
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic 
Written: 1855-1876; Austria 
 Date of Recording: 01/1989 
Venue:  Live  Orchestra Hall, Chicago, Illinois 
Length: 46 Minutes 0 Secs. 

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Average Customer Review:  ( 1 Customer Review )
 a recording of a great occasion November 20, 2012 By Jonathan H. (Culpeper, VA) See All My Reviews "Basically all of Wand's Brahms 1st recordings (including the DVD) have something to offer the listener. I think the comparison is much more interesting and subtle than Hurwitz thinks (review above). The speeds are basically the same. For anyone who has heard conductor and orchestra separately will find this combination worth its value. This recording was made after extended rehearsals requested by Wand, and it shows in the details. Adolph Herseth, the principal trumpet at the time of this recording, once commented that one of his favorite solo passages, is in the 4th movement, after the famous horn solo - the trumpet plays three notes. Notice how beautiful those three notes are played. Those are the kinds of things that could make other recordings of this work less satisfying. The other versions with NDR symphony are also indispensable." Report Abuse
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