Symphonie No. 2 - Alto Rhapsody

Album by Johannes Brahms & Marjana Lipovšek & Ernst‐Senff‐Chor & Berliner Philharmoniker & Claudio Abbado

This album is a recording of orchestral and vocal-orchestral works by Johannes Brahms, composed in 1877 and 1869 respectively. Musically it pairs a late-Romantic symphonic work characterised by warm lyricism, classical structural balance and rich orchestration with a smaller-scale vocal rhapsody for contralto, male chorus and orchestra that exemplifies Brahms's intimate, text-driven vocal writing within the late-19th-century German Romantic tradition.
First released: 1989

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    Alto Rhapsody, op. 53
    13:06
  2. 2.
    Symphony no. 2 in D major, op. 73: I. Allegro non troppo
    20:59
  3. 3.
    Symphony no. 2 in D major, op. 73: II. Adagio non troppo - L'istesso tempo, ma grazioso
    10:02
  4. 4.
    Symphony no. 2 in D major, op. 73: III. Allegretto grazioso
    5:27
  5. 5.
    Symphony no. 2 in D major, op. 73: IV. Allegro con spirito
    9:42

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