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Symphony 4 BRAHMS
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J. Brahms — Symphony N. 4 in E minor, Op. 98 • The work was given its premiere in Meiningen on October 25, 1885, with Brahms himself conducting. The piece had earlier been given to a small private audience in a version for two pianos, played by Brahms and Ignaz Brüll. Brahms' friend and biographer Max Kalbeck, reported that the critic Eduard Hanslick, acting as one of the page-turners, exclaimed on hearing the first movement at this performance: For this whole movement I had the feeling that I was being given a beating by two incredibly intelligent people. Hanslick, however, wrote also that [for] the musician, there is not another modern piece so productive as a subject for study. It is like a dark well; the longer we look into it, the more brightly the stars shine back. • The musicologist Donald Francis Tovey praises the work as “one of the greatest orchestral works since Beethoven,” and singles out the end of the first movement, which “bears comparison with the greatest climaxes in classical music, not excluding Beethoven.” • The symphony is rich in allusions, most notably to various Beethoven compositions. The symphony may well have been inspired by the play Antony and Cleopatra, which Brahms had been researching at the time. • Progressive rock group Yes's keyboardist Rick Wakeman abridged and arranged the third movement for various keyboards in the instrumental Cans and Brahms from the 1971 album Fragile. • 00:00 — Allegro non troppo • 12:54 — Andante moderato • 24:17 — Allegro giocoso • 30:27 — Allegro energico e passionato • #orchestra #symphony #brahms
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