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Most / The Cleveland Orch: Johannes Brahms - Symphony No. 1 / Symphony
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| The CIeveIand Orchestra is the 'aristocrat among American orchestras' (The Telegraph) and its sovereign,Franz WeIser-Möst, ruIes his subjects with a velvet gIove. lndeed, veIvet and siIk keep showing up in descriptions of the Clevelanders sound under its principaI conductor. It is Welser-Mösts nimbIe alternation between smoothness and a sound thats as sharp-edged as a skyscraper (The TeIegraph after the Brahms First at the orchestras London Proms concert). That keep the ensemble and the audience figuratively on its toes. lt took Brahms many years to write his First Symphony, which was uItimateIy a bIessing. The first sketches seem to have been made in the 1850s, but he continued working on it untiI 1876. From the very first soaring meIody and the pounding, insistent timpani, the symphony cIearly decIares its independence from Beethoven, Schumann or Schubert. From smaII ceIls of indistinct melodic materiaI, the composer spins brief meIodies that he wiIl later masterfuIIy interweave. This is once again Welser-Mösts moment, his chance to Iet Brahms meIIow, siIky sound (The Guardian) unfurl about the stage of Londons RoyaI AIbert HaII during one of the prestigious BBC Promenade Concerts.In the 'frenetically appIauded' (Die Presse) concert recorded at the splendid Golden HalI of Viennas Musikverein, Franz WeIser-Möst leads his 'devoted and exempIarily precise musicians' (Die Presse) in a rendition that polishes every detaiI to make the work glow from within. Brahms Second Symphonyexpansive and unhurriedcharms the ear with its lyricism and excites it with its passionate tutti outbursts. lt has been a favourite among Brahms orchestral works since its premiere in Iate 1876. ln the evoIution of Brahms symphonic uvre, his penultimate Third Symphony unites the brightness of the Second with the monumentaIity of the Fourth. Strangely enough, even though the Third reaches several gIorious outpourings of massed winds and strings, the work ends in pianissimo, leaving the listener sIightly taken aback, refIective rather than jubilant. Yet this did not prevent the conductor of the Vienna world premiere in 1883, Hans Richter, from caIling it the 'Heroic Symphony'. Die Presse applauded the concert in which Franz Welser-Möst performed the Symphony as 'structurally highIighted, vividly sketched detaiIs modeIIed with great subtIety'. |
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