Swedish Chamber Orchestra & Thomas Dausgaard - Brahms - Orchestral Works (2020) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

"Begun in 2012 with the release of Symphony No. 1, Thomas Dausgaard’s four-disc traversal of the symphonies of Johannes Brahms is here brought to a close with the composer’s final work in the genre. The E minor Symphony is sometimes described as Brahms’ ‘elegiac symphony’, and has been called ‘one of the greatest orchestral works since Beethoven’. Typical for the composer is the striking degree of motivic relationships throughout the work. This includes the finale in which Brahms demonstrates his full mastery in a towering Passacaglia consisting of 30 variations and a coda. The smallish forces of the Swedish Chamber Orchestra contribute to a transparency and clarity which bring out the finer details of Brahms’ compositional web. As on previous instalments, the symphony is coupled with other works by Brahms. Included on the present disc is another late work, Tragic Overture, which concludes the programme. These two ‘serious’ works frame some of the most rousing and ebullient music Brahms ever wrote, namely his Hungarian Dances. Composed for piano four-hands, the 21 dances became immensely popular, and Brahms arranged three of them for orchestra himself. Having made his own orchestrations of the remaining 18 dances, Thomas Dausgaard has recorded the full set for his Brahms cycle, with the final nine dances included here."


TRACKLIST

01. Swedish Chamber Orchestra & Thomas Dausgaard - Symphony No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 98: I. Allegro non troppo
02. Swedish Chamber Orchestra & Thomas Dausgaard - Symphony No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 98: II. Andante moderato
03. Swedish Chamber Orchestra & Thomas Dausgaard - Symphony No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 98: III. Allegro giocoso
04. Swedish Chamber Orchestra & Thomas Dausgaard - Symphony No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 98: IV. Allegro energico e passionato
05. Swedish Chamber Orchestra & Thomas Dausgaard - 21 Hungarian Dances, WoO 1 (Excerpts Arr. T. Dausgaard for Orchestra): No. 2 in D Minor
06. Swedish Chamber Orchestra & Thomas Dausgaard - 21 Hungarian Dances, WoO 1 (Excerpts Arr. T. Dausgaard for Orchestra): No. 4 in F Minor
07. Swedish Chamber Orchestra & Thomas Dausgaard - 21 Hungarian Dances, WoO 1 (Excerpts Arr. T. Dausgaard for Orchestra): No. 8 in A Minor
08. Swedish Chamber Orchestra & Thomas Dausgaard - 21 Hungarian Dances, WoO 1 (Excerpts Arr. T. Dausgaard for Orchestra): No. 9 in E Minor
09. Swedish Chamber Orchestra & Thomas Dausgaard - 21 Hungarian Dances, WoO 1 (Excerpts Arr. T. Dausgaard for Orchestra): No. 17 in F-Sharp Minor
10. Swedish Chamber Orchestra & Thomas Dausgaard - 21 Hungarian Dances, WoO 1 (Excerpts Arr. T. Dausgaard for Orchestra): No. 18 in D Major
11. Swedish Chamber Orchestra & Thomas Dausgaard - 21 Hungarian Dances, WoO 1 (Excerpts Arr. T. Dausgaard for Orchestra): No. 19 in B Minor
12. Swedish Chamber Orchestra & Thomas Dausgaard - 21 Hungarian Dances, WoO 1 (Excerpts Arr. T. Dausgaard for Orchestra): No. 20 in E Minor
13. Swedish Chamber Orchestra & Thomas Dausgaard - 21 Hungarian Dances, WoO 1 (Excerpts Arr. T. Dausgaard for Orchestra): No. 21 in E Minor
14. Swedish Chamber Orchestra & Thomas Dausgaard - Tragic Overture, Op. 81 (Version for Orchestra)



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