Symphony No. 2 / Tragic Overture

Album by Johannes Brahms & Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Daniel Barenboim

This album is a recording of orchestral works by Johannes Brahms, featuring compositions from 1877 and 1880. It juxtaposes the composer's expansive late-Romantic symphonic writing—characterised by lyric themes, warm string sonorities and classical formal balance that reflect the consolidation of his mature symphonic voice—with a compact overture that employs darker, dramatic textures, heightened chromaticism and energetic orchestral climaxes to illustrate his range within the orchestral genre.

First released: 1994

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1.
Symphony No. 2 in D major Op. 73: I. Allegro non troppo
15:32
2.
Symphony No. 2 in D major Op. 73: II. Adagio non troppo - L'istesso tempo, ma grazioso
9:50
3.
Symphony No. 2 in D major Op. 73: III. Allegretto grazioso (Quasi Andantino) - Presto ma non assai
5:36
4.
Symphony No. 2 in D major Op. 73: IV. Allegro con spirito
9:31
5.
Tragic Overture Op. 81: Allegro ma non troppo
14:12