| Label: Tahra Catalog: FURT2005 Format: CD Orchestre Philharmonique de Berlin, conducted Wilhelm FurtwänglerJohannes Brahms (1833-1897): Variations op.56 / Symphonie No 1 op.68 Gramophone Magazine June 2010: 250 Greatest Recordings of All Time
Incandescent, elemental playing fro the Berliners under Furtwangler.
In Furtwängler’s vision, Brahms appeared like a composer coming from the same lineage of Bach-Handel, who fused in himself enormous physical presence and extreme sensivity.
Furtwängler considered Brahms as the successor of the ancient German and Dutch Masters, such as Van Eyck and to him, the Brahms symphonies depict a savage, fantastic, and almost demoniac world.
Ultimately, Furtwängler considers Brahms as the image of the “classical” German, representing most strikingly German art with all its asperities and its sweetness, its vehemence and its discipline.
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