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Notes and Editorial Reviews
Other recordings of Brahms’s symphonies are certainly more perfect, more detailed, more profound even, but few match the raw exhilaration of these Dorati performances. No. 2 is the odd man out, played by the Minneapolis SO rather than the LSO, and is the only case where accuracy may have been sacrificed in the cause of élan. Even so, the breathless urgency of these totally involving performances commands admiration.
-- Christopher Wood, BBC Music Magazine
Other recordings of Brahms’s symphonies are certainly more perfect, more detailed, more profound even, but few match the raw exhilaration of these Dorati performances. No. 2 is the odd man out, played by the Minneapolis SO rather than the LSO, and is the only case where accuracy may have been sacrificed in the cause of élan. Even so, the breathless urgency of these totally involving performances commands admiration.
-- Christopher Wood, BBC Music Magazine
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Works on This Recording
1.
Symphony no 1 in C minor, Op. 68 by Johannes Brahms
Conductor:
Antal Doráti
Orchestra/Ensemble:
London Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1855-1876; Austria
Date of Recording: 06/1959
2.
Symphony no 2 in D major, Op. 73 by Johannes Brahms
Conductor:
Antal Doráti
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1877; Austria
Date of Recording: 12/1957
3.
Symphony no 3 in F major, Op. 90 by Johannes Brahms
Conductor:
Antal Doráti
Orchestra/Ensemble:
London Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1883; Austria
Date of Recording: 07/1963
4.
Symphony no 4 in E minor, Op. 98 by Johannes Brahms
Conductor:
Antal Doráti
Orchestra/Ensemble:
London Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1884-1885; Austria
Date of Recording: 07/1963
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