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In the Thread: Johannes Brahms - Symphony No.4, Carlos Kleiber, Wiener Philharmoniker
Post Subject: They are the hell of sensations….Posted by Romy the Cat on: 10/21/2009
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Yes, I am not at ease with the first movement of Carlos Kleiber’s version from 1981 as well. To me it is mostly about the orchestra tuning… The third movement in there I truly Kleiber-like: in the first movement they are juts tuning in and rehearsaling…
To me the Brahms symphonies are very simple. You need to strip down from them all orchestral embellishment and leave out the raw core of melody; that in most of the Brahms cases is phenomenally simple but superbly brilliant. Then you play those melodies in your head in zillion circumstances, to see how they glue itself to life. Then knowing exactly how it shell be played you sit in symphony whole and witness how what become almost native to you get refined, ornamented and decorated with 116 players orchestra. They are the hell of experience….
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