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BEETHOVEN: Symphonies Nos. 1 and 4 / BRAHMS: Variations |
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Composer: |
Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms |
Conductor: |
Pablo Casals, Hans Pfitzner, Marin Alsop, Arturo Toscanini, Willem Mengelberg, Herbert von Karajan, Erich Kleiber, Rafael Kubelik, Klaus Tennstedt, Ernest Ansermet, Andrew Manze, Hans Knappertsbusch, Karl Bohm, Franz Konwitschny, Jascha Horenstein, Giovanni Antonini, Jiri Belohlavek, Thomas Dausgaard, Bela Drahos, Richard Edlinger, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Alexander Rahbari, Georg Tintner, Osmo Vanska, Wilhelm Furtwangler, Felix Weingartner, Christoph Eschenbach, Eduard van Beinum, Artur Rodzinski |
Orchestra: |
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Symphony Nova Scotia, Nicolaus Esterhazy Sinfonia, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Belgian Radio and Television Philharmonic Orchestra, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, Concertgebouw Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, NBC Symphony Orchestra, South West German Radio Symphony Orchestra, Baden-Baden, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, Berlin State Opera Orchestra, New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, Pablo Casals Orchestra of Barcelona, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra , Austrian Symphony Orchestra, members, Basel Chamber Orchestra, RIAS Symphony Orchestra, Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival Orchestra |
Label: |
Naxos Historical |
Catalogue No.: |
8.111262 |
Format: |
CD |
Barcode: |
0747313326228 |
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Along with Casals’ 1927 London Symphony disc of Beethoven’s Coriolan Overture (Naxos Historical 8.110976), these recordings – the Beethoven Symphony No. 1 is particularly rare – constitute the cellist’s complete pre-war recordings as a conductor. The Barcelona sessions made with Casals’ own orchestra, formed in 1919, were set down in a concentrated period of work over five days in early July 1929. They are notable for their unfussy and direct approach to Beethoven that reveal the music in honest, unvarnished and expressive terms. In Brahms’ Variations on the St Anthony Chorale, recorded just a few weeks before Casals’ 51st birthday, the London Symphony Orchestra plays with beauty of sound, excellent ensemble and characterful wind solos. Casals’ temperate direction stresses the lyrical and eloquent aspects of Brahms’ writing.
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