Brilliant....didn't know this...and the sound is amazing. Thank you for that post!

Got to admit the applause at the end caught me by surprise.

I very well remember going to summer music school when I was 18 or so and we played an orchestration *by one of the other students* of the Intermezzo Op. 117 No. 3 in C# min. Opened my eyes to writing music for myself.

Wow, Schoenberg apart, I had no idea this stuff existed. Thank you!

SCHOENBERG!!!🎉🎉🎉the Schoenberg arrangements are incredible! I can't wait to listen to this

It's a shame they couldn't squeeze in Berio's orchestration of the F minor clarinet sonata (it's available on a recording conducted by Ricardo Chailly) - it works beautifully as a clarinet concerto, and is very much in keeping with Brahms's style.

@ColinWrubleski-eq5sh

2 күн бұрын

A subtle boast on behalf of my former colleagues---> the Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra, under its chief conductor Alfonso Scarano, performed that Brahms Berio Clarinet f- sonata / concerto with Calogero Palermo, principal clarinetist of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam...

I hope they do another one these as this was very enjoyable. There’s a fantastic orchestral arrangement of his two clarinet sonatas by Berio. Also, there’s an orchestration of his Handel Variations by Rubbra - not as colorful as the Berio but certainly competent and very enjoyable.

I just bought this CD, and I am looking forward to hearing it. I've loved the Brahms-Schoenberg ever since Robert Craft's first recording was the only one (stuffed into one of his 2-LP boxes of Schoenberg), and I believe I may own every recording of it ever issued. (Yes, including two issued only on LP: Andrzej Markowski on a Radio Nederland transcription, and Gustav Kuhn with RSO Stuttgart on Süddeutscher Rundfunk.) While I agree with you on the primacy of Craft I, I suggest you might enjoy Miguel Harth-Bedoya and Fort Worth SO. The finale is so exciting that I almost wonder whether Hart-Bedoya might be Roma, rather than Peruvian! Thanks for this review!

Speaking of reorchestrations, there's a new CD on the Chandos label with French Opera Overtures conducted by Neeme Jarvi (is he approaching 110? He seems to have been around forever!). The music sounds delightful. Hopefully you will review it Dave.

@DavesClassicalGuide

2 күн бұрын

Hmmm. There's something not quite right about that segue...

@rogergersbach3300

2 күн бұрын

@@DavesClassicalGuide It was in levity😃 I hope he reaches 110. Still a great conductor at 87!

Dave can you review the new DG Vienna Philharmonic Bruckner boxset.

Excellent, I will check it out. Brahms Intermezzo is a lovely piece for piano, I'm interested to hear Black Swan for orchestra! By the way, there's nothing like an organ recital in a church or cathedral, I agree organ recordings usually leave me cold.

Great. Will give it a listen. Maybe someone has reimagined the string quartets 😴 ... yeah, I'll keep on dreaming about those works.

Oops - "Now that E. Power Biggs and Virgil Thompson are gone... " E. Power Biggs and Virgil Fox..." (5.30)

@DavesClassicalGuide

2 күн бұрын

Seen one Virgil, seem 'em all. Thanks!

"Black Swan" made me really curious, so I just had a listen to it and it's very beautiful, indeed. But to be honest I really don't get the point of the title. Is it supposed to tell us anything about the music? Why not just calling it what it is? Or is it an attempt to make the music seem less "serious"? Schoenberg could have called his orchestration of the piano quartet "Fried Eggs", it would be just as random. It reminds me of the pretentious album titles you encounter these days, I just don't get it.

@bbailey7818

2 күн бұрын

Not only that, but Black Swan inevitably brings to mind Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake black swan, which, as Gilbert says, has nothing to do with the case.

@classicalduck

2 күн бұрын

@@bbailey7818 Tra la!

I would strongly advocate exploring the actual piano quartet (and its two siblings) instead of that weird Schoenberg thing (I just managed to not say travesty, and I'm mighty proud of that). It is a huge mistake to try to think of Brahms as primarily an ochestral composer. Chamber music was his forte (fortissimo, even). Keep on listening: to the originals!