Simone Young conducts Brahms
Heart of Brahms
There are perfectionists. And then there’s Brahms, who famously took 21 years to write his first symphony. In his Variations on a Theme of Joseph Haydn, we see Brahms experimenting with orchestral writing of scale – providing us with music that’s as moving as it is masterly.
Over 60 years later, Schoenberg orchestrated Brahms’ First Piano Quartet for orchestra.
A piece he loved and thought performed too rarely, this orchestration brings out the expressive colour of Brahms’ music, while keeping the purity of a piece originally composed for four instruments.
Program
BRAHMS Variations on a Theme of Joseph Haydn
BRAHMS arr. SCHOENBERG Piano Quartet No.1
Artists
SIMONE YOUNG conductor
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