Brahms: Orchestral Works / Dausgaard, Swedish Chamber Orchestra

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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Johannes Brahms, Franz Schubert
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Swedish Chamber Orchestra
    • PERFORMER
      Thomas Dausgaard
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      February 04, 2022
    • UPC
      7318599925561
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BIS-2556
    • LABEL
      BIS
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      4
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Un poco sostenuto - Allegro

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Ensemble: Svenska Kammarorkestern

      Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard

    2. II. Andante sostenuto

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Ensemble: Svenska Kammarorkestern

      Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard

    3. III. Un poco allegretto e grazioso

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Ensemble: Svenska Kammarorkestern

      Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard

    4. IV. Adagio - Più andante - Allegro non troppo ma con brio

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Ensemble: Svenska Kammarorkestern

      Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard

    5. No. 1. Rede, Mädchen, allzuliebes

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Ensemble: Svenska Kammarorkestern

      Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard

    6. No. 2. Am Gesteine rauscht die Flut

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Ensemble: Svenska Kammarorkestern

      Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard

    7. No. 4. Wie des Abends schöne Röte

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Ensemble: Svenska Kammarorkestern

      Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard

    8. No. 6. Ein kleiner, hübscher Vogel

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Ensemble: Svenska Kammarorkestern

      Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard

    9. No. 5. Die grüne Hopfenranke

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Ensemble: Svenska Kammarorkestern

      Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard

    10. 15 Neue Liebeslieder Waltzes, Op. 65: No. 9. Nagen am Herzen fühl ich Gift in mir (arr. W. Weismann for orchestra)

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Ensemble: Svenska Kammarorkestern

      Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard

    11. No. 11. Nein, es ist nicht auszukommen

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Ensemble: Svenska Kammarorkestern

      Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard

    12. No. 8. Wenn so lind dein Auge mir

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Ensemble: Svenska Kammarorkestern

      Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard

    13. No. 9. Am Donaustrande, da steht ein Haus

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Ensemble: Svenska Kammarorkestern

      Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard

    14. No. 1 in G Minor (orch. J. Brahms)

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Ensemble: Svenska Kammarorkestern

      Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard

    15. No. 3 in F Major (orch. J. Brahms)

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Ensemble: Svenska Kammarorkestern

      Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard

    16. No. 10 in E Major (orch. J. Brahms)

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Ensemble: Svenska Kammarorkestern

      Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard

    17. I. Allegro non troppo

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Ensemble: Svenska Kammarorkestern

      Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard

    18. II. Adagio non troppo - L'istesso tempo, ma grazioso

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Ensemble: Svenska Kammarorkestern

      Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard

    19. III. Allegretto grazioso (quasi andantino) - Presto ma non assai

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Ensemble: Svenska Kammarorkestern

      Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard

    20. IV. Allegro con spirito

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Ensemble: Svenska Kammarorkestern

      Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard

    21. Theme: Chorale St. Antoni: Andante

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Ensemble: Svenska Kammarorkestern

      Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard

    22. Variation 1: Andante con moto

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Ensemble: Svenska Kammarorkestern

      Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard

    23. Variation 2: Vivace

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Ensemble: Svenska Kammarorkestern

      Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard

    24. Variation 3: Con moto

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Ensemble: Svenska Kammarorkestern

      Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard

    25. Variation 4: Andante

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Ensemble: Svenska Kammarorkestern

      Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard

    26. Variation 5: Poco presto

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Ensemble: Svenska Kammarorkestern

      Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard

    27. Variation 6: Vivace

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Ensemble: Svenska Kammarorkestern

      Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard

    28. Variation 7: Grazioso

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Ensemble: Svenska Kammarorkestern

      Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard

    29. Variation 8: Poco presto

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Ensemble: Svenska Kammarorkestern

      Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard

    30. Finale: Andante

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Ensemble: Svenska Kammarorkestern

      Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard

    31. No. 6 in D-Flat Major

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Ensemble: Svenska Kammarorkestern

      Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard

    32. No. 7 in A Major

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Ensemble: Svenska Kammarorkestern

      Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard

    33. No. 5 in F-Sharp Minor

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Ensemble: Svenska Kammarorkestern

      Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard

    34. Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Ensemble: Svenska Kammarorkestern

      Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard

    35. I. Allegro con brio - Un poco sostenuto

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Ensemble: Svenska Kammarorkestern

      Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard

    36. II. Andante

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Ensemble: Svenska Kammarorkestern

      Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard

    37. III. Poco allegretto

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Ensemble: Svenska Kammarorkestern

      Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard

    38. IV. Allegro - Un poco sostenuto

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Ensemble: Svenska Kammarorkestern

      Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard

    39. Schubert - An Schwager Kronos, Anh. Ia/12

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Ensemble: Svenska Kammarorkestern

      Performer: Johan Reuter

      Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard

    40. Schubert - Memnon, Anh. Ia/13

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Ensemble: Svenska Kammarorkestern

      Performer: Anna Larsson

      Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard

    41. Schubert - Geheimes, Anh. Ia/15

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Ensemble: Svenska Kammarorkestern

      Performer: Anna Larsson

      Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard

    42. Schubert - Greisengesang, Anh. Ia/16

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Ensemble: Svenska Kammarorkestern

      Performer: Johan Reuter

      Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard

    43. Schubert - Ellens Gesang II, Anh. Ia/17 (version for voice and orchestra)

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Ensemble: Svenska Kammarorkestern

      Performer: Anna Larsson

      Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard

    44. Schubert - Gruppe aus dem Tartarus, Anh. Ia/14 (version for voice and orchestra)

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Ensemble: Svenska Kammarorkestern

      Performer: Johan Reuter

      Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard

    45. No. 11 in D Minor

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Ensemble: Svenska Kammarorkestern

      Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard

    46. No. 12 in D Minor

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Ensemble: Svenska Kammarorkestern

      Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard

    47. No. 13 in D Major

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Ensemble: Svenska Kammarorkestern

      Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard

    48. No. 14 in D Minor

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Ensemble: Svenska Kammarorkestern

      Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard

    49. No. 15 in B-Flat Major

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Ensemble: Svenska Kammarorkestern

      Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard

    50. No. 16 in F Minor

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Ensemble: Svenska Kammarorkestern

      Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard

    51. Alto Rhapsody, Op. 53

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Ensemble: Swedish Radio Choir, Svenska Kammarorkestern

      Performer: Anna Larsson

      Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard

    52. I. Allegro non troppo

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Ensemble: Svenska Kammarorkestern

      Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard

    53. II. Andante moderato

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Ensemble: Svenska Kammarorkestern

      Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard

    54. III. Allegro giocoso - Poco meno presto

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Ensemble: Svenska Kammarorkestern

      Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard

    55. IV. Allegro energico e passionato - Più allegro

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Ensemble: Svenska Kammarorkestern

      Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard

    56. No. 2 in D Minor

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Ensemble: Svenska Kammarorkestern

      Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard

    57. No. 4 in F Minor

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Ensemble: Svenska Kammarorkestern

      Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard

    58. No. 8 in A Minor

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Ensemble: Svenska Kammarorkestern

      Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard

    59. No. 9 in E Minor

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Ensemble: Svenska Kammarorkestern

      Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard

    60. No. 17 in F-Sharp Minor

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Ensemble: Svenska Kammarorkestern

      Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard

    61. No. 18 in D Major

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Ensemble: Svenska Kammarorkestern

      Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard

    62. No. 19 in B Minor

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Ensemble: Svenska Kammarorkestern

      Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard

    63. No. 20 in E Minor

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Ensemble: Svenska Kammarorkestern

      Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard

    64. No. 21 in E Minor

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Ensemble: Svenska Kammarorkestern

      Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard

    65. Tragic Overture, Op. 81

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Ensemble: Svenska Kammarorkestern

      Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard


This boxed set brings together Thomas Dausgaard and the Swedish Chamber Orchestra’s cycle of Brahms’ symphonies, originally released as four separate discs. Each symphony is coupled with carefully selected works to provide a well-rounded idea of the composer’s orchestral output.

Favorites such as the two concert overtures are included – the laughing and the weeping one, to paraphrase Brahms himself – as well as the beloved Haydn Variations (on a theme likely not by Haydn at all…). Another perennial favorite is the Alto Rhapsody, here with Anna Larsson singing the solo part, but there are also less-heard works – Brahms’s orchestrations of his own Liebeslieder-Walzer for instance, and of six songs by Schubert.

Throughout the set, the composer’s Hungarian Dances run like a thread. Brahms's orchestrations of Nos. 1, 3 and 10 have pride of place on disc 1, with the remaining 18, in much praised orchestral versions by Dausgaard, spread over the remaining three discs. In reviews of the individual discs, critics used words such as ‘freshness’, ‘transparency’, and ‘urgency’ to describe the performances, with Fanfare expressing pleasure at hearing ‘Brahms from the edge of one's seat’.

REVIEWS:

Exciting in quite a different way is Thomas Dausgaard’s invigorating cycle of Brahms symphonies (with interesting additions) with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra. ‘The real purpose of using a small orchestra’, Dausgaard told Andrew Mellor regarding his recording of Brahms’s Second, ‘is to allow us to appreciate all the music that’s there, so that it comes to life in every corner, rather than becoming a mesh of sound'...Dausguaard [conducts] with a sense of style.

-- Gramophone

If you are sympathetic to the ideas that Brahms’s orchestral works can be played successfully by a smaller ensemble, and that the music does not lose its effectiveness when somewhat faster tempos are used, then there is no reason not to explore what Dausgaard and the Swedish Chamber Orchestra have done here. He is an intelligent conductor who infuses his ideas with personality, and Brahms is in good, un-arthritic hands. The recordings, made between 2011 and 2018 in the Örebro Concert Hall, sound wonderful.

-- Fanfare