Composer: Johannes Brahms, Robert Schumann
Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Paul Mann
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata Classics
Catalogue: TOCC0450
Release: 2023
Size: 1.38 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Brahms: Variations on a Theme of Schumann, Op. 23
01. I. Theme: Andante, Leise und innig
02. II. Variation 1: Pochino più mosso, delicato
03. III. Variation 2
04. IV. Variation 3: A tempo, grazioso
05. V. Variation 4: Misterioso
06. VI. Variation 5: Grazioso con moto
07. VII. Variation 6: Alla marcia
08. VIII. Variation 7: Allegro leggiero
09. IX. Variation 8: Andante con moto ardente
10. X. Variation 9: Maestoso
11. XI. Variation 10: Alla marcia, poco lento
12. XII. Epilogue
Schumann: Six Canonic Studies, Op. 56
13. No. 1, Con moto egual’e dolce
14. No. 2, Gently lilting, flowing
15. No. 3, A tempo, andantino piacevole teneramente
16. No. 4, Con moto amabile: supple and airy
17. No. 5, Vivace
18. No. 6, Andante serioso
Brahms: Symphony in F Minor, Op. 34
19. I. Allegro non troppo
20. II. Andante
21. III. Scherzo: Allegro – Trio
22. IV. Finale. Poco sostenuto – Allegro commodo
Composers who orchestrate the music of earlier colleagues often serve them best when they add something of themselves to the work in hand. These three orchestrations by the English composer Robin Holloway (b. 1943) demonstrate his profound understanding of and affection for two of the most important Romantic composers – and his re-imagining of Brahms’ Sonata for Two Pianos (which Brahms himself recast as his Piano Quintet) as a symphony gives one of the greatest of all compositions a wild and thrilling energy, making it also a masterpiece of our own age.