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Stokowski - Brahms: Symphonie No. 2; Tragic Overture / National Philharmonic Orchestra / CBS Masterworks LP 1978 / 76667

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Stokowski - Brahms: Symphonie No. 2; Tragic Overture / National Philharmonic Orchestra / CBS Masterworks LP 1978 

76667

 

Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 73, was composed by Johannes Brahms in the summer of 1877, during a visit to Pörtschach am Wörthersee, a town in the Austrian province of Carinthia. Its composition was brief in comparison with the 21 years it took Brahms to complete his First Symphony.

The symphony is scored for 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, and strings.

The cheery and almost pastoral mood of the symphony often invites comparisons with Beethoven's Sixth Symphony, but, perhaps mischievously, Brahms wrote to his publisher on November 22, 1877, that the symphony "is so melancholy that you will not be able to bear it. I have never written anything so sad, and the score must come out in mourning."

The premiere was given in Vienna on 30 December 1877 by the Vienna Philharmonic under the direction of Hans Richter; Walter Frisch notes that it had originally been scheduled for 9 December, but "in one of those little ironies of music history, it had to be postponed [because] the players were so preoccupied with learning Das Rheingold by Richard Wagner." A typical performance lasts between 40 and 50 minutes.

 

The Tragic Overture (German: Tragische Ouvertüre), Op. 81, is a concert overture for orchestra written by Johannes Brahms during the summer of 1880. It premiered, under Hans Richter, on 26 December 1880 in Vienna. Eight days later, it was repeated at the University of Breslau on a program with the premiere of the Academic Festival Overture. Most performances last between twelve and fifteen minutes.

Brahms chose the title "tragic" to emphasize the turbulent, tormented character of the piece, in essence a free-standing symphonic movement, in contrast to the mirthful ebullience of a companion piece he wrote the same year, the Academic Festival Overture. Despite its name, the Tragic Overture does not follow any specific dramatic program. Brahms summed up the effective difference in character between the two overtures when he declared "one laughs while the other cries."

 

Label: CBS Masterworks – 76667
Format: Vinyl, LP
Country: Germany
Released: 1978
Genre: Classical
Style: Romantic
 
 
 

Tracklist:

    Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 73  
 
A1   I. Allegro non troppo  
 
A2   II. Adagio non troppo  
 
B1   III. Allegretto grazioso (Quasi andantino)  
 
B2   IV. Allegro con spirito  
B3   Tragic Overture, Op. 81

 

 

  • ConductorLeopold Stokowski
  • CoverJohn Berg
  • EngineerMike Ross-Trevor, Neville Boyling
  • OrchestraNational Philharmonic Orchestra
  • PhotographyClive Barda
  • ProducerRoy Emerson

 

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