Tianwa Yang, Gabriel Schwabe, Antoni Wit, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin - Johannes Brahms: Violin Concerto; Double Concerto (2019)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 337 Mb | Total time: 72:25 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naxos | 8.573772 | Recorded: 2017
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 337 Mb | Total time: 72:25 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naxos | 8.573772 | Recorded: 2017
Brahms’ string concertos are indissolubly linked with the musicians for whom the works were written. He wrote his Violin Concerto for Joseph Joachim, and in it he combined what a contemporary critic termed ‘the great and serious’ with songful lyricism, melodic beauty, and a fiery Hungarian finale. To mend a breach with the violinist, Brahms later composed a concerto with the unusual combination of violin and cello, the latter played at the premiere by Joachim’s colleague Robert Hausmann. Neither instrument predominates in a work of reconciliation that embodies both drama and reflection.