Brahms: Symphony No. 1
Stephen Johnson explores Brahms's Symphony No. 1, which took the composer around 20 years to compose. While Brahms strove to create his own unique sound, critics pounced upon it.
Stephen Johnson explores Brahms's Symphony No. 1, which took the composer a long time to compose. Brahms had a number of disappointments as an orchestral composer, in particular the reception of his First Piano Concerto. This made him very wary as a symphonist, and he didn't complete his First Symphony until the age of forty-three, despite having begun the work some twenty years earlier. By the time Brahms did feel ready to launch himself onto this purely orchestral scene, it was to a public already used to programmatic works from Wagner and Berlioz. Brahms strove to create his own unique sound, but the critics pounced upon the symphony, in particular the last movement for its Beethovenian echoes.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony no 9: Scherzo
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Johannes Brahms
Scherzo for violin and piano
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Johannes Brahms
Symphony no 1, mvt 1
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Johannes Brahms
Symphony no 1, mvt 3
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Johannes Brahms
Symphony no 1, mvt 2
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Johannes Brahms
Symphony no 1,mvt 4
Credit
Role | Contributor |
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Composer | Johannes Brahms |
Broadcast
- Fri 28 Sep 2012 20:05Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3
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