In this 2016 concert, splendidly recorded by Gardiner's engineers at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, John Eliot Gardiner and his Orchestra Révolutionnaire et Romantique return to the Schubert-Brahms pairing of a 2009 release and deliver pleasing and often revelatory results featuring the orchestra's period brasses and winds, and strings unafraid to offer a bit of what Astor Piazzolla liked to call mud. The Brahms Serenade No. 2 in A major, Op. 16, with its violin-less orchestration, perhaps makes a good place to start for ...
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In this 2016 concert, splendidly recorded by Gardiner's engineers at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, John Eliot Gardiner and his Orchestra Révolutionnaire et Romantique return to the Schubert-Brahms pairing of a 2009 release and deliver pleasing and often revelatory results featuring the orchestra's period brasses and winds, and strings unafraid to offer a bit of what Astor Piazzolla liked to call mud. The Brahms Serenade No. 2 in A major, Op. 16, with its violin-less orchestration, perhaps makes a good place to start for those unfamiliar with Gardiner's encounters with Romantic music: the chamber-like feel of the music is historically justifiable and opens up space for the coloration of the orchestra's fine period wind section. Sample the slow movement, Adagio lovingly pushed to just the edge of "non troppo," for the full effect. But actually it's the Schubert Symphony No. 5 in B flat major, D 485, where Gardiner is most startling. Where he reduces the dimensions of the Brahms, he increases those of the...
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