Brahms: Sérénades
Orchestre Consuelo, Victor Julien-Laferrière
Throughout, Julien-Laferrière conveys the romantic feeling in both scores to a remarkable degree. I couldn’t help but be captivated, all the more because this release started out as a dark horse....
Brahms: Sérénades
Orchestre Consuelo, Victor Julien-Laferrière
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Throughout, Julien-Laferrière conveys the romantic feeling in both scores to a remarkable degree. I couldn’t help but be captivated, all the more because this release started out as a dark horse....
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Johannes Brahms’ two serenades cast a wistful glance onto the musical past.
Still barely twenty-five years old, he had stumbled into a severe artistic crisis after his fairytale rise to European celebrity.
Following the public failure of the D minor Piano Concerto, on which he had worked for five agonising years, he immersed himself in the stylistic world of Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven with the serenades, as if to throw off the high emotional pressure of the concerto and seek a new beginning in the symphonic genre.
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July/August 2023
Throughout, Julien-Laferrière conveys the romantic feeling in both scores to a remarkable degree. I couldn’t help but be captivated, all the more because this release started out as a dark horse. Strongly recommended as the best recording of this music in many years.
