This four-CD set, also available separately, combines all of Arturo Toscanini's authorized recorded releases of his performances of Johannes Brahms' work in one neat package -- and that is more important, as regards history and matters of interpretation, than one might conclude at a glance, more than a century after Brahms' time and 50 years after Toscanini's death. Composer and conductor were born more than three decades and several national borders apart, but they overlapped in the years that would be the most important ...
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This four-CD set, also available separately, combines all of Arturo Toscanini's authorized recorded releases of his performances of Johannes Brahms' work in one neat package -- and that is more important, as regards history and matters of interpretation, than one might conclude at a glance, more than a century after Brahms' time and 50 years after Toscanini's death. Composer and conductor were born more than three decades and several national borders apart, but they overlapped in the years that would be the most important to us, as listeners: Toscanini's first 34 years, when he was developing his musical sensibilities, coinciding with Brahms' last three decades as one of the world's leading composers. And for a conductor who was principally associated with the opera house until age 63 (in 1930), and a composer who never wrote an opera in all of his career, the histories of Toscanini and Brahms became intertwined surprisingly early. Toscanini's relationship to the composer's work started at the...
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Add this copy of Brahms: the Four Symphonies (Volumes 6-9) to cart. $138.06, new condition, Sold by Wonder Book - Member ABAA/ILAB rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Frederick, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1990 by RCA.
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