Orchestral, Symphonies, Brahms (composer)
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Special offer. Brahms: Symphony No.4 & MacMillan: Larghetto for Orchestra
RecommendedPittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Manfred Honeck
In this outstanding performance of Brahms’s Fourth Symphony, Manfred Honeck draws a wonderfully rich, almost Central European string sound from the Pittsburgh Symphony, matched by equally mellifluous... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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Building A Library, October 2025, Top Choice (Brahms)
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These are spontaneous-sounding interpretations, sure, but they’re also thoughtful....Indeed, throughout this set, Nézet-Séguin hardly puts a foot wrong, and the COE play their hearts out for... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2024, Editor's Choice
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Building A Library, October 2024, Recommended Recording (Symphony No. 1)
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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Building A Library, August 2025, Recommended Recording (Symphony No. 1)
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Dynamic and dramatic readings, faithful to Brahms's intentions. Powerfully conceived, they are rhythmically alert, without an ounce of undue sentiment and never for an instant losing sight of... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2013, Disc of the Month
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2014, Orchestral Finalist
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Recording of the Year
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Building a Library, April 2018, Also recommended
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Special offer. Brahms: Symphony No. 2 & Academic Festival Overture
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Herbert Blomstedt
Blomstedt takes a decidedly autumnal view of Brahms’s Second Symphony – and he has every right to do so...His lingering account of the first movement alone occupies well over 20 minutes…With... —
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2021, Orchestral Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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Perhaps one of the most striking aspects of these performances is the sheer variety of colours and timbres Robin Ticciati manages to extract from the outstanding strings of the Scottish Chamber... —
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2018, Recording of the Month
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Record Review, 24th March 2018, Recording of the Week
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His Brahms is as vital, impulsive and rhythmic as all his work strives to be – though not as sheerly dynamic as one might have imagined – but there is blend and bloom, too...he truly listens... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 26th May 2017
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2017, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2017
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You won’t hear lovelier playing of Brahms’s music, nor clearer presentation of its ceaselessly inventive inner workings. What doesn’t come across as strongly is how these are two of the greatest... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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I don't doubt Brahms would have approved, at any rate, of this rendition of his Tragic Overture, which is thrillingly done, vital with a richness of sound and drama that is maintained throughout... —
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2026, Orchestral Choice
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[Kleiber's] classic 1981 recording with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra has polish and fire in equal measure, displaying that characteristic Kleiber blend of intellectual rigour, passion and... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, 100 Greatest Recordings
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Building a Library, July 2006, Mid-Price Choice
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Ádám Fischer and the Danish Chamber Orchestra are by no means the first to have tackled the Brahms symphonies with similarly pared-down forces, and the leaner sound often works to the music’s... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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The Guardian Classical Albums of the Year, 2022
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Conductor of the Year
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