
BRAHMS: The Four Symphonies (3CD)
In 2022 and 2023 Sir John Eliot Gardiner recorded the four Brahms symphonies in Amsterdam with one of the most prestigious orchestras in the world: the Royal Concertgebouw orchestra.
Gardiner writes: âThe Brahms project with the Orchestre RĂ©volutionnaire et Romantique in 2007 was a thrilling undertaking â a thorough reappraisal of Brahmsâs 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 â 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 â especially such a distinguished, flexible and immensely accomplished one as the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra â in search of a fresh synthesis of styles and approaches. âFuego y cristalâ, as Jorge Luis Borges described them. Thatâs what weâve been aiming at.â
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In 2022 and 2023 Sir John Eliot Gardiner recorded the four Brahms symphonies in Amsterdam with one of the most prestigious orchestras in the world: the Royal Concertgebouw orchestra.
Gardiner writes: âThe Brahms project with the Orchestre RĂ©volutionnaire et Romantique in 2007 was a thrilling undertaking â a thorough reappraisal of Brahmsâs 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 â 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 â especially such a distinguished, flexible and immensely accomplished one as the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra â in search of a fresh synthesis of styles and approaches. âFuego y cristalâ, as Jorge Luis Borges described them. Thatâs what weâve been aiming at.â












