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Günter Wand, NDR-Sinfonieorchester - Johannes Brahms: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 4 (2001)

Posted By: ArlegZ
Günter Wand, NDR-Sinfonieorchester - Johannes Brahms: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 4 (2001)

Günter Wand, NDR-Sinfonieorchester - Johannes Brahms: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 4 (2001)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 365 Mb | Total time: 78:51 | Scans included
Classical | Label: RCA Red Seal | # 74321 89101 2 | Recorded: 1983

What a Brahms cycle! Günter Wand’s fairly brisk tempos, astute sense of linear clarity, and palpable dynamic intensity often hold a modern-day sonic mirror to Toscanini’s way with the composer. Listen to how the First symphony’s driving introduction ever so gradually eases into the incisively shaped main theme, or notice the fourth-movement introduction’s seamless yet almost improvisatory transitions. The Third’s difficult-to-balance first movement is all of a piece, with the sustained wind passages, brass outbursts, and often buried lower strings contoured in revelatory perspective.

Günter Wand, NDR-Sinfonieorchester - Johannes Brahms: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3 (2001)

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Günter Wand, NDR-Sinfonieorchester - Johannes Brahms: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3 (2001)

Günter Wand, NDR-Sinfonieorchester - Johannes Brahms: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3 (2001)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 386 Mb | Total time: 79:12 | Scans included
Classical | Label: RCA Red Seal | # 74321 89102 2 | Recorded: 1982, 1983

What a Brahms cycle! Günter Wand’s fairly brisk tempos, astute sense of linear clarity, and palpable dynamic intensity often hold a modern-day sonic mirror to Toscanini’s way with the composer. Listen to how the First symphony’s driving introduction ever so gradually eases into the incisively shaped main theme, or notice the fourth-movement introduction’s seamless yet almost improvisatory transitions. The Third’s difficult-to-balance first movement is all of a piece, with the sustained wind passages, brass outbursts, and often buried lower strings contoured in revelatory perspective.

NDR-Sinfonieorchester, Christoph Eschenbach, Midori, Nobuko Imai - Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante; Concerto K. Anh. 56 (2001)

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NDR-Sinfonieorchester, Christoph Eschenbach, Midori, Nobuko Imai - Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante; Concerto K. Anh. 56 (2001)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante; Concerto in D Major K. Anh. 56 (2001)
Midori, violin; Nobuko Imai, viola; NDR-Sinfonieorchester; Christoph Eschenbach, piano & conductor

EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 251 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 134 Mb | Scans ~ 81 Mb
Genre: Classical | Label: Sony Classical | # SK 89488 | Time: 00:58:34

Of all the reconstructions prompted by the 1991 Mozart jamboree, Philip Wilby’s recreation of the Violin and Piano Concerto of 1778 was the most worthwhile. Wilby skilfully completed the 120-bar fragment of the first movement and took the slow movement and finale from the unusually brilliant, ‘public’ D major Violin Sonata, K306. There are problems – not least of dates – with Wilby’s thesis that the Sonata is the ‘last resting-place’ of the projected double concerto. But the three movements certainly make a satisfying entity. Midori and Eschenbach give an immensely polished reading, phrasing with unfailing subtlety and sophistication.