Symphony No. 2 / Variations on a Theme by Haydn

Album by Johannes Brahms & Wiener Philharmoniker & London Symphony Orchestra & Pierre Monteux

Symphony No. 2 and the Variations on a Theme by Haydn are orchestral works by Johannes Brahms, composed in 1877 and 1873 respectively. Both pieces exemplify Brahms's late-Romantic idiom, combining classical forms and contrapuntal technique with rich orchestration, with the Variations presenting a theme-and-variation structure rooted in classical models and the Symphony No. 2 forming part of his mature symphonic output as a more pastoral, formally concise successor to his First Symphony.

Symphony No. 2 / Variations on a Theme by Haydn by Johannes Brahms - album cover

First released: 2015

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Symphony no. 2 in D major, op. 73: I. Allegro non troppo
20:28
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Symphony no. 2 in D major, op. 73: II. Adagio non troppo
9:19
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Symphony no. 2 in D major, op. 73: III. Allegretto grazioso (quasi andantino)
5:05
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Symphony no. 2 in D major, op. 73: IV. Allegro con spirito
9:07
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Variations on a theme by Haydn
17:00