Brahms: Symphony No 4, etc | CD review

Monteverdi Choir/Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique/Gardiner (SDG)Like the previous issues in John Eliot Gardiner's Brahms cycle, the performance of the Fourth Symphony, and of the works preceding it, are taken from concerts at the Southbank Centre in London in 2008. As before, too, Gardiner has paired the symphony with works designed to illuminate Brahms's debt to the classical tradition in the widest sense. The sequence begins with Beethoven's Coriolan Overture in a tingling, highly thea...

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