Brahms (The Best Of)

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Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80 (more info)
Performed by: Heidelberg Symphony Orchestra Belgian Radio and Television Philharmonic Orchestra Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra Concertgebouw Orchestra Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra London Philharmonic Orchestra Boston Symphony Orchestra Berlin State Opera Orchestra
Composed by: Johannes Brahms Sergey Koussevitzky
Conducted by: Willem Mengelberg Marin Alsop Hans Vonk Otto Klemperer Thomas Fey Michael Halasz Alexander Rahbari
Recording date: 7-11 May 1988


1.   Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80 - 10:47


3 Intermezzos, Op. 117 (more info)
Composed by: Johannes Brahms
Andrea Bonatta, piano
Antonin Kubalek, piano
Wilhelm Backhaus, piano
Artur Schnabel, piano
Dmitry Paperno, piano
Jeno Jando, piano
Luba Edlina, piano
Elena Bezprozvannykh,
Anton Kuerti, piano
Idil Biret, piano
Carol Rosenberger, piano
Antonio Pompa-Baldi, piano
Yorck Kronenberg, piano
Geza Anda, piano
Jane Coop, piano


2.   Intermezzo, Op. 117, No. 1 in E flat major: Andante moderato - 5:21


String Sextet No. 1 in B flat major, Op. 18 (more info)
Composed by: Johannes Brahms Peter Buck
Hermann Voss, viola
Paul Roczek,
Peter Katt,
Jurgen Geise,
Wilfred Tachezi,
Dankwart Gahl, cello
Irmgard Gahl, viola


3.   String Sextet No. 1 in B flat, Op. 18: Andante ma moderato - 9:41


Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68 (more info)
Performed by: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Munich Philharmonic Orchestra Berlin Deutsches Symphony Orchestra Belgian Radio and Television Philharmonic Orchestra Concertgebouw Orchestra London Symphony Orchestra Philharmonia Cassovia London Philharmonic Orchestra NBC Symphony Orchestra Berlin Symphony Orchestra Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra South West German Radio Symphony Orchestra, Baden-Baden Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique Berlin State Opera Orchestra Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra Bamberg Philharmonic Orchestra
Composed by: Arturo Toscanini Johannes Brahms
Conducted by: Willem Mengelberg Herbert von Karajan Marin Alsop Paavo Berglund Gunter Wand Kurt Sanderling Jascha Horenstein Otto Klemperer Mario Klemens Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos Vladimir Jurowski Alexander Rahbari Neeme Jarvi Carlo Maria Giulini Michael Gielen Roger Norrington Wilhelm Furtwangler John Eliot Gardiner Marek Janowski Hans Swarowsky
Recording date: 17-20 November 1947


4.   Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68: Un poco sostenuto - Allegro - 13:20


Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 77 (more info)
Performed by: Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra Seattle Symphony Orchestra Chicago Symphony Orchestra Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra London Philharmonic Orchestra Sinfonia Varsovia South West German Radio Symphony Orchestra Lucerne Festival Orchestra Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Orchestra Boston Symphony Orchestra Berlin State Opera Orchestra Dresden Staatskapelle Berlin Deutsche Opera Orchestra Halle Orchestra Bucharest George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra
Composed by: Eugene Goossens Neville Marriner Johannes Brahms Sergey Koussevitzky
Conducted by: Carlos Kalmar Dmitry Sitkovetsky Franz Konwitschny John Barbirolli Paul van Kempen Yakov Kreizberg Hans Muller-Kray Stephen Gunzenhauser Cristian Mandeal Wilhelm Furtwangler Leo Blech Gerard Schwarz Pietari Inkinen Witold Rowicki
David Oistrakh, violin
Alex Klein, oboe
Benjamin Schmid, violin
Rachel Barton Pine, violin
Joseph Szigeti, violin
Jascha Heifetz, violin
Ilya Kaler, violin
Ian Hobson, piano
Elmar Oliveira, violin
Yehudi Menuhin, violin
Ida Haendel, violin
Julia Fischer, violin
Takako Nishizaki, violin
Gioconda de Vito, violin
Fritz Kreisler, violin
Andres Cardenes, violin
Recording date: 11 April 1939


5.   Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 77: Adagio - 8:58


21 Hungarian Dances, WoO 1 (version for orchestra) (more info)
Performed by: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra, Kosice Budapest Symphony Orchestra London Symphony Orchestra Philharmonia Cassovia London Philharmonic Orchestra Berlin Symphony Orchestra Quebec Symphony Orchestra Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival Orchestra
Composed by: Johannes Brahms
Conducted by: Marin Alsop Istvan Bogar Andrew Mogrelia Yoav Talmi Neeme Jarvi Wilhelm Furtwangler Christoph Eschenbach Lior Shambadal
Recording date: 13-17 August 1990


6.   Hungarian Dance No. 1 - 3:05
7.   Hungarian Dance No. 5 - 2:20


Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 83 (more info)
Performed by: Asturias Symphony Orchestra BBC Symphony Orchestra Belgian Radio and Television Philharmonic Orchestra London Symphony Orchestra London Philharmonic Orchestra Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra NBC Symphony Orchestra Saxon State Orchestra Montreal Metropolitan Orchestra South West German Radio Symphony Orchestra, Baden-Baden Boston Symphony Orchestra Dresden Staatskapelle Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra
Composed by: Emil Tabakov Arturo Toscanini Johannes Brahms Antal Dorati
Conducted by: Paavo Berglund Karl Bohm Hans Rosbaud Alexander Rahbari Joseph Rescigno Antoni Wit Colin Davis Albert Coates Maximiano Valdes
Arthur Rubinstein, piano
Wilhelm Backhaus, piano
Artur Schnabel, piano
Vladimir Horowitz, piano
Jeno Jando, piano
Vladimir Atapin, cello
Anton Kuerti, piano
Idil Biret, piano
Dimitris Sgouros, piano
Geza Anda, piano
Stephen Kovacevich, piano
Jorge Federico Osorio, piano
Francois-Frederic Guy, piano
Recording date: 7 and 14 November, 1935


8.   Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 83: Allegro non troppo (Excerpt) - 8:35


5 Lieder, Op. 49: No. 4. Wiegenlied (arr. P. Nagy) (more info)
Composed by: Johannes Brahms
Peter Nagy, piano


9.   Cradle Song, Op. 49, No. 4 - 2:15


Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98 (more info)
Performed by: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra Berlin Deutsches Symphony Orchestra Belgian Radio and Television Philharmonic Orchestra Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra Concertgebouw Orchestra London Symphony Orchestra London Philharmonic Orchestra South West German Radio Symphony Orchestra, Baden-Baden Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Orchestra Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival Orchestra
Composed by: Neville Marriner Johannes Brahms
Conducted by: Willem Mengelberg Marin Alsop Paavo Berglund Gunter Wand Michael Halasz Alexander Rahbari Eugen Jochum Neeme Jarvi Michael Gielen Roger Norrington Christoph Eschenbach
Recording date: 7-11 May 1988


10.   Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98: Allegrio energico e passionato - Piu Allegro - 12:45

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