Klemperer conducts Brahms Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 68 (6/6)

[Leonardo0691]

Bravo!

[ZhengStudios]

I wrote a piece for orchestra without ever having heard this symphony. And somehow my main theme turns out to be exactly like this one? Oh brahms...

[Chaliamusiclover]

Johann Strauss looks like Mark Twain.

[Chaliamusiclover]

Never mind. It is Richard Strauss and Brahms in picture.

[changjiang001]

@Chaliamusiclover It's Johann Strauss Jr.

[Chaliamusiclover]

@changjiang001 Yes you got it right. I get all the Strauss confuse.=)

[Chaliamusiclover]

Never mind. It is Richard Strauss and Brahms.

[Chaliamusiclover]

Never mind. It is Richard Strauss.

[Chaliamusiclover]

Is that Mark Twain on the picture with Brahms?

[alger3041]

Having just listened two days ago to Wand's reading, on a friend's recommendation, and finding some problems with it, I decided to try another version. This one for me is on the whole better despite at times some strange sound (not that the other is free of it). The first two movments were superb except for the close of the first movement; parts of the third were rushed and losts of places in the last movement I felt were thrown away. But still a decent reading of my favorite Brahms symphony.

[BrendanPanFlautist]

I played this with CYO and it was so awesome T.T

[jorgealbertobaron1]

Gran compositor y gran obra

[MrLandale]

You can almost hear the "An die Freude" 0:20

Also some Mozart,  jupiter symphony, 4th mov, 2:19

[grizzlyganymede]

I, too, felt that the final coda seemed a bit of an anticlimax here . This is only my personal taste of course but If you can find it, listen to Barbirolli's reading with the Liverpool Philharmonic. Having heard so many versions that one is still my favourite and in this respect it really does the business

[jnurin]

thanks for posting the whole thing!!! i have no idea why i don't have it, i thought i had more brahms, but it's here thanks to you for last minute studying ;-)

[Twilight70]

Really good performance but it sounds like he rushes at times throughout the symphony. For instance, I think the climax at 6:51 could have been milked a bit more.

[Opoczynski]

The best! The French horn crescendos in the slow introduction are unmatched. Great timpani whacks at the beginning. Wonderful ensemble and control. Moderate tempo brings out every detail.

[shogl]

Wuenderschoen u. ausgezeichnet!

[electronicnun]

this is slow compared to what i'm used to! but it sounds great.

[Nachtmarchen]

The greatest performance of the finale to me, everyone else feels a bit clipped compared to Klemperer - the contrapuntal tension is unmatched, every note knows where it comes from and where it's supposed to go, not voice runs into nothingness as in so many other performances. A timeless performance, as timeless as Brahms' music.

[shogl]

I greatly admire your sensitivfe and perceptive comments.

[morvensky]

Brahms's music is as timeless as infinity.

[UlfenDaddy]

@Nachtmarchen Klemperer was Klemperer; sometimes a bit ponderous, but always phrased and articulate. Perhaps too slow and heavy in the lower registers, but always clear and crisp where clarity is wonted. And nobody, Nobody, could keep strings ON PITCH in ultra-high register like Dr Klemperer. There are readings he'd done I don't care for all that much, but it's always obvious what his intention is in bringing out the facets he wants. His Brahms and Beethoven though are Definitive.

[billyguns2]

Klemperer and the Philharmonia were an unbeatable combination; they always played their hearts out for him, and in the 1950s and early 1960s they were one of a handful of the world's greatest orchestras. Toscanini is reputed to have told Walter Legge that if he were younger he would have wanted to re-record everything he did with the Philharmonia.

[Sinfoniette]

Never heard about that, but very believable. I can't think of a single rendition of Klemperer that is worse than Toscanini's. They were two great maestros.

[schwarzkavalier]

Please!!!Klemperer regarding german repertory was greater of Toscanini!!!!!!!!!! NO DOUBT!!!

[strukhoff]

@Sinfoniette Amazing to think that Toscanini was 30 years old when Brahms died, yet he lived into the modern age. How I would love to be able to chat with him a bit--if one could "chat" with Toscanini--about Brahms and what he remembers of him.