Brahms - Violin Concerto and Hungarian Dances - Joseph Swensen · Scottish Chamber Orchestra
FLAC 96kHz / 24bit (Studio Master) | Stereo | Linn Records CKD 224 [2004] | 1.40 GB | 3% RAR

Another triumphant success for director Joseph Swensen and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Under Swensen's powerful command the orchestra gives a fantastically spirited performance: a thoroughly appealing disc

Brahms wrote the Violin Concerto op. 77 in the summer of 1878 while holidaying in the idyllic setting of Pörtschach in the Styrian Alps, the place where, a year earlier, he had written his Second Symphony. Immediate parallels can be drawn between the two works: both are in D major, have a first movement in triple time with a triadic first subject, and are pervaded by the new-found self confidence and inner calm that manifested itself in Brahms’s writing following the completion of his long-awaited First Symphony. 

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