Symphony no. 1 / Academic Festival Overture

Album by Johannes Brahms & Scottish Chamber Orchestra & Charles Mackerras

Symphony No. 1 / Academic Festival Overture is a pairing of orchestral works by Johannes Brahms, composed in 1876 and 1880 respectively. The symphony is a large-scale Romantic work that draws on Beethovenian architecture, dramatic orchestration and dense contrapuntal writing, while the overture is a compact, celebratory concert piece that incorporates student hymn-like melodies, and together they mark Brahms's consolidation as a symphonist within the late 19th-century German orchestral tradition.

Symphony no. 1 / Academic Festival Overture by Brahms - album cover

First released: 1st October 1997

Classical

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1.
Symphony no. 1 in C minor, op. 68: I. Un poco sustenuto - Allegro
15:33
2.
Symphony no. 1 in C minor, op. 68: II. Andante sostenuto
8:54
3.
Symphony no. 1 in C minor, op. 68: III. Un poco allegretto e grazioso
4:15
4.
Symphony no. 1 in C minor, op. 68: IV. Adagio - Allegro non troppo, ma con brio
16:37
5.
Symphony no. 1 in C minor, op. 68: II. Andante sostenuto (alternate)
8:42
6.
Academic Festival Overture, op. 80
9:46