Brahms: Symphony No. 1 / Wagner: Siegfried Idyll
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JOHANNES BRAHMS / RICHARD WAGNER
Brahms: Symphony No. 1 / Wagner: Siegfried Idyll
Berlin State Opera Orchestra, Otto Klemperer
[ Naxos Historical Great Conductors / CD ]
Release Date: Monday 28 January 2008
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If 'slow tempos' were a significant characteristic of Klemperer's final years as a conductor, in his earlier days, as demonstrated on these 1927-1928 recordings, he could set fizzing tempos, galvanising his performers with electric gestures. Above all, however, Klemperer was a master structuralist, always focused on the music, its construction and direction. His recording of the Brahms Symphony No. 1, made over seven months, is notable not only for athletic vitality but for ecstatic singing lines and subtle integration of light and shade. The account of the Prelude to Act I of Tristan und Isolde is remarkable rapt while that of Siegfried Idyll is intimate and gentle.
"From the very opening of the Brahms symphony, we are in for a surprise, for the timpanist's strokes - far from driving all before them in the usual relentless and dominating fashion - are, while remaining the music's key propulsive driver, far more integrated into the full orchestral mix than we generally expect." MusicWeb
