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Brahms: Complete Symphonies

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Sir John Eliot Gardiner

Brahms: Complete Symphonies
Gardiner's new set of the Brahms symphonies has a number of similarities but also a number of differences with his previous one from a decade and a half ago...The contribution of the Royal Concertgebouw...

Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2025

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Brahms: Complete Symphonies

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Sir John Eliot Gardiner

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Gardiner's new set of the Brahms symphonies has a number of similarities but also a number of differences with his previous one from a decade and a half ago...The contribution of the Royal Concertgebouw...

Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2025

More reviews

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“The Brahms project with the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique in 2007 was a thrilling undertaking – a thorough reappraisal of Brahms’s sound world, both in terms of period instruments and a study of the surviving evidence of performance practice. So why then a second recording 18 years later? First, because these symphonies are evergreen – miracles at the time of their inception and super-challenging every time one encounters them. Second, because I sensed a need and a personal challenge to build on that seminal earlier experience and to extend its findings and interpretations to/in working with a modern instrument orchestra in search of a fresh synthesis of styles and approaches.” – John Eliot Gardiner.

3-CD digipack with 24-page booklet with a personal remark by John Eliot Gardiner and liner notes by Peter Quantrill (in English/German) plus biographies of both the conductor and the orchestra.

Contents and tracklist

Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68
Work length44:16
I. Un poco sostenuto – Allegro
Track length15:21
II. Andante sostenuto
Track length8:29
III. Un poco allegretto e grazioso
Track length4:19
IV. Adagio – Più andante – Allegro non troppo, ma con brio – Più allegro
Track length16:07
Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 73
Work length41:44
I. Allegro non troppo
Track length19:16
II. Adagio non troppo
Track length8:35
III. Allegretto grazioso (quasi andantino)
Track length4:57
IV. Allegro con spirito
Track length8:56
Brahms: Symphony No. 3 in F major, Op. 90
Work length35:17
I. Allegro con brio
Track length12:33
II. Andante
Track length8:14
III. Poco allegretto
Track length6:38
IV. Allegro
Track length7:52
Brahms: Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98
Work length37:16
I. Allegro non troppo
Track length11:29
II. Andante moderato
Track length10:13
III. Allegro giocoso
Track length5:48
IV. Allegro energico e passionato
Track length9:46

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Awards Issue 2025

Gardiner's new set of the Brahms symphonies has a number of similarities but also a number of differences with his previous one from a decade and a half ago...The contribution of the Royal Concertgebouw is perhaps the principal reason to prefer the new set over its predecessor.

8th May 2025

In these performances, Gardiner manages to have his period-instrument cake and enjoy his modern-instrument refinement in a way that is totally convincing
4 out of 5 stars
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