Brahms: Symphonies; Piano Concertos; Violin Concerto

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Product Description Germanys foremost conductor of German Romantic repertoire conducts his legendary Dresdner Staatskapelle in a complete cycle of Brahms symphoniesRecorded live through the 2012-13 season, this set presents the most coherent rendering of Thielemanns powerful, dark, layered vision of BrahmsA counter-weight to the lighter, revisionist Chailly cycle on Decca, Thielemanns version is rooted in the great German Romantic tradition tragic and elegiac emotion with an epic sense of musical architectureContent of the DVD:Thielemann and Pollinis performance of the ECHO award winning recording of Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1 & Piano Concerto No. 2Christian Thielemanns and Lisa Batiashvillis performance of the Brahms Violin ConcertoThe symphonic set is completed with a pair of favourite Brahms overturesCD 1 59:33SYMPHONY NO. 1 IN C MINOR OP. 68CD 2 56:16SYMPHONY NO. 2 IN D MAJOR OP. 73CD 3 78:41SYMPHONY NO. 3 IN F MAJOR OP. 90SYMPHONY NO. 4 IN E MINOR OP. 98DVD 146:54PIANO CONCERTO NO. 1 IN D MINOR OP. 15PIANO CONCERTO NO. 2 IN B FLAT MAJOR OP. 83VIOLIN CONCERTO IN D MAJOR OP. 77 Review Thielemann and his crew made this driving version [of the 4th Symphony] cohere and even gave one of the most convincing, well-delineated, Andante moderato movements imaginable. --Chicago Sun-Times