Special offer. Bertrand de Billy conducts Beethoven & Brahms
Johan Botha (tenor)
Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, with Vienna State Opera Chorus, Bertrand de Billy
de Billy sheds an optimistic light on this dramatic cantata, starting with a male chorus whose ringing summons to duty doesn't however overwhelm the orchestra. All forces are indeed skilfully...
Special offer. Bertrand de Billy conducts Beethoven & Brahms
Johan Botha (tenor)
Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, with Vienna State Opera Chorus, Bertrand de Billy
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de Billy sheds an optimistic light on this dramatic cantata, starting with a male chorus whose ringing summons to duty doesn't however overwhelm the orchestra. All forces are indeed skilfully...
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A disc of popular and less well known works by Beethoven and Brahms, Bertrand de Billy again conducts the ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna, along with the Vienna State Opera Chorus and featuring tenor, Johan Botha in Rinaldo, Brahms’ Cantata for Tenor and Men’s Chorus. Bertrand de Billy’s recording of Beethoven’s third symphony on Oehms (OC621) was described by German magazine Fonoforum as ‘Beethoven for connoiseurs and musical spirits.’
Contents and tracklist
- Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien
- Bertrand de Billy
- Johan Botha
- Chor der Wiener Staatsoper, Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien
- Bertrand de Billy
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Johannes Brahms - Orchestral & Choral Works
7th Nov 2014
James surveys recordings of orchestral and choral works by Brahms, and selects some of his favourites.
Awards and reviews
February 2013
de Billy sheds an optimistic light on this dramatic cantata, starting with a male chorus whose ringing summons to duty doesn't however overwhelm the orchestra. All forces are indeed skilfully weighted, de Billy and Johan Botha equal to the heroic or sorrowful in the score.
