Product Overview
Audio Archive Classics: Brahms
Audio CD 2005
Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98
The London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Josef Krips
UPC 5033107800520 / 625282600528
Tracklist:
| Sample | Title/Composer | Performer | Time | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98 | ||||||
| 1 |
1. Allegro non troppo
|
Wilhelm Furtwängler / Josef Krips
|
11:36 | |||
| 2 |
2. Andante moderato
|
Wilhelm Furtwängler / Josef Krips
|
11:17 | |||
| 3 |
3. Allegro giocoso
|
Wilhelm Furtwängler / Josef Krips
|
6:40 | |||
| 4 |
4. Allegro energico e passionato
|
Wilhelm Furtwängler / Josef Krips
|
9:51 | |||
| Variations on a Theme of Haydn for orchestra in B flat major (St. Anthony Variations), Op. 56a | ||||||
| 5 |
[Part 1]
|
Wilhelm Furtwängler / Josef Krips
|
3:23 | |||
| 6 |
[Part 2]
|
Wilhelm Furtwängler / Josef Krips
|
3:05 | |||
| 7 |
[Part 3]
|
Wilhelm Furtwängler / Josef Krips
|
2:44 | |||
| 8 |
[Part 4]
|
Wilhelm Furtwängler / Josef Krips
|
2:15 | |||
| 9 |
[Part 5]
|
Wilhelm Furtwängler / Josef Krips
|
3:15 | |||
| 10 |
[Part 6]
|
Wilhelm Furtwängler / Josef Krips
|
4:56 | |||
Total time: 59:02
SYMPHONY NO. 4 IN E MINOR
Op. 98
First Movement: Allegro Non Troppo
Second Movement: Andante Moderato
Third Movement: Allegro Giocoso
Fourth Movement: Allegro Energico E Passionato
Josef Krips
Conducting
The London Symphony Orchestra
Josef Alois Krips (8 April 1902 – 13 October 1974) was an Austrian conductor and violinist.
Johannes Brahms (German: [joˈhanəs ˈbʁaːms]; 7 May 1833 – 3 April 1897) was a German composer, pianist, and conductor of the Romantic period. Born in Hamburg into a Lutheran family, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria. His reputation and status as a composer are such that he is sometimes grouped with Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven as one of the "Three Bs" of music, a comment originally made by the nineteenth-century conductor Hans von Bülow.
Brahms composed for symphony orchestra, chamber ensembles, piano, organ, and voice and chorus. A virtuoso pianist, he premiered many of his own works. He worked with some of the leading performers of his time, including the pianist Clara Schumann and the violinist Joseph Joachim (the three were close friends). Many of his works have become staples of the modern concert repertoire. An uncompromising perfectionist, Brahms destroyed some of his works and left others unpublished.
Brahms has been considered, by his contemporaries and by later writers, as both a traditionalist and an innovator. His music is firmly rooted in the structures and compositional techniques of the Classical masters. While many contemporaries found his music too academic, his contribution and craftsmanship have been admired by subsequent figures as diverse as Arnold Schoenberg and Edward Elgar. The diligent, highly constructed nature of Brahms's works was a starting point and an inspiration for a generation of composers. Embedded within his meticulous structures, however, are deeply romantic motifs.
