Brahms: Symphony No. 2 / Double Concerto
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Composer: Johannes BrahmsConductor: Bernard Haitink
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra
Performer: Gordan Nikolitch (violin)
Performer: Tim Hugh (cello)
Edition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2004-01-13
Music Label: LSO Live UK
Soundtracks:
- Allegro
- Andante
- Vivace Non Troppo
- Allegro Non Troppo
- Adagio Non Troppo
- Allegretto Grazioso (Quasi Andantino)
- Allegro Con Spirito
Music reviews of Brahms: Symphony No. 2 / Double Concerto
Music Review: Bad recording of a great concerto.
Rating: 1 Stars
After reading all of the Hosanna cries from the rest of the pack, I decided to buy this bargain offer CD.
And I shouldn't...
Sonically - this is a flop in a big way: Compared to another Brahms Double concerto, with the same conductor, Haitink effort with the Concertgebouw/Perlman/Rostropovitch, (which in itself is not one of the greatest recording because of midrange aberrations due to EMI producer's decisions), this LSO bargain CD sounds muffled, distanced and reserved. Sonically the hearing-brain mechanism can not penetrate the sound-field and can not extract any sonic pleasure with this recording - which no doubt is an extensive multi-micked affair. Bad.
The playing of both cellist and violinist lacks the intensity, the warmth, the heart-break and the immediacy that the Oistrakh/Rostropovich, or Oistrakh/Fournier has, and certainly it does not hold the magic and the superb Concertgebouw acoustic.
Also, compared to the (half MONO-EMI-Oistrakh/Fournier) the LSO CD sounds like they are lost in a mist.
And mind you: this LSO CD is a pure digital recording that by nature should have had the "see-through", the attack, the wholesomeness sonic ability - but it does not have this, again, due to the multi-micked recording.
I do not so much have quarrel with the artistic taste of some of the other critics who likes their Brahms to sound like Delius or like Vaughn-Williams, but all it boils into is a reading that is liked to walking in the mud.
The LSO recording is vague, distanced, unfocused, misty, no relief-effect (no 3-D).
If you are looking for a more exciting, direct, bold experience, go somewhere else. This one is not the one.
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Description of Brahms: Symphony No. 2 / Double Concerto
After struggling to complete his first symphony, Brahms composed his Symphony No 2 with ease and the work overflows with a relaxed, pastoral beauty. His Double Concerto is laced with a fiery gypsy passion and pitches violin and cello against orchestra.This release is Bernard Haitink's first on the LSO Live label and marks the start of a complete Brahms Symphony cycle, music in which Haitink excels. Gordan Nikolitch and Tim Hugh, the LSO's Leader and Principal Cellist respectively and accomplished soloists in their own right, step out from the orchestra for the Double Concerto.
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