Brahms: Symphonies Chamber Orchestra of Europe & Yannick Nézet-Séguin

• Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897): Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 68:
• 1 Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 68: I. Un poco sostenuto - Allegro - Meno allegro 15:28
• 2 Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 68: II. Andante sostenuto 08:48
• 3 Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 68: III. Un poco allegretto e grazioso 04:37
• 4 Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 68: IV. Adagio - Piu andante - Allegro non troppo, ma con brio - Piu allegro 15:42
• Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 73:
• 5 Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 73: I. Allegro non troppo 20:43
• 6 Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 73: II. Adagio non troppo - L'istesso tempo, ma grazioso 09:43
• 7 Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 73: III. Allegretto grazioso (Quasi andantino) - Presto ma non assai 05:12
• 8 Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 73: IV. Allegro con spirito 08:46
• Symphony No. 3 in F Major, Op. 90:
• 9 Brahms: Symphony No. 3 in F Major, Op. 90: I. Allegro con brio 12:39
• 10 Brahms: Symphony No. 3 in F Major, Op. 90: II. Andante 09:05
• 11 Brahms: Symphony No. 3 in F Major, Op. 90: III. Poco allegretto 06:37
• 12 Brahms: Symphony No. 3 in F Major, Op. 90: IV. Allegro 08:28
• Symphony No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 98:
• 13 Brahms: Symphony No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 98: I. Allegro non troppo 12:27
• 14 Brahms: Symphony No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 98: II. Andante moderato 11:09
• 15 Brahms: Symphony No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 98: III. Allegro giocoso - Poco meno presto - Tempo I 05:56
• 16 Brahms: Symphony No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 98: IV. Allegro energico e passionato - Più allegro 09:54
• Total Runtime 02:45:14

Info for Brahms: Symphonies

The Chamber Orchestra of Europe (COE) has been performing at the Baden-Baden Festival every summer for over a decade. The orchestra’s close collaboration with Yannick Nézet-Séguin has already led to the recording of Beethoven’s symphonies for Deutsche Grammophon in 2021. In the last two years, they have concentrated on Brahms’ four symphonies, which will be available on 12 July 2024.

A concert in Baden-Baden's Festspielhaus ended to euphoric applause, with no one knowing who was at whose feet: The conductor the orchestra, the audience the conductor or all together the composer Johannes Brahms? The reason for the enthusiasm was his Second Symphony, nicknamed "Lichtentaler", because he had completed it here, in Baden-Baden's Lichtental district. And now, with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and its conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin, it was given a performance that was one of the great moments in this house: orchestrally lightened, transparent to the core, but only seemingly embedded in an easily conquerable soundscape. The rhythms were constantly shifting. There was hardly a motivic turn that didn't immediately trigger a wave of syncopations, hemiolas and hidden changes of time signature, causing the musicians to despair of their stability. But everything was performed with the greatest naturalness: a rumble from the timpani, then the oboes called out into the open, the strings followed with a hint of delay, as if they still had to rub the remaining sleep out of their eyes. And what a climax the finale led to: an unleashed Brahms, an orgiast!

Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Yannick Nezet-Seguin, conductor

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