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Brahms: Serenade No. 1 / Tragic, & Academic Festival Overtures

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I am a geat lover of both Brahms serenades, so pickedup the Tilson Thomas recordings of both with great anticipaiton. All I can say is that he has surprisingly little feeling for Brahms, and both CDs went to the bottom of my list. Tempos lack any kind of joy or brio, and overall there is a sense that opportunities for pointed accents and luyrical flights are being missed right and left.

I've listened to the music of Johannes Brahms since before I could walk. I am always seeking out the best recordings of the Tragic Overture and the Academic Festival Overture. I thought Bernstein, Szell and Solti knew what they were doing with New York, Cleveland and Chicago, respectively, but Thomas and the London Symphony have recorded the finest renditions of these two overtures that you will ever hear. Melodicly, tonality and grace are heard throughout each note, phrase and diminishment. I cried when I first heard these recordings while driving through Chicago. I said to myself, I must have this. I searched the world over and found them here at Amazon.com. Now I listen to them anytime I want and I'm going to share these recordings with my siblings who also know and appreciate great music and great recordings. By the way, I gave away my other CD renditions of these titanic overtures.

Brahms me sorprende cada dia, sinfonias soberbias, conciertos sorprendentes, sus hermosas danzas hungaras y ahora descubri (sin mencionar piano sonatas y otras bellisimas piezas)esta serenata Nș1 que podria ser otra sinfonia o quizas un poema sinfonico es grandiosa.

Una gran introduccion nos conduce por scherzos, allegros, un hermosoa adagio y mas scherzos,un menuetto encantador, para finalizar en dos pequeñas piezas (movimientos) grandiosos.

Es una obra diversa, facil de escuchar, llega a momentos de solemnidad y dulzura, de fulgor y luminosidad, es muy entretenida y con una cuota de elegancia.

Se añaden a esta obra la hermosa y nada de tragica Obertura Tragica, en realidad nunca la he encontrado muy de acuerdo con su titulo pero Brahms sabra, junto a esta extraordinaria obra esta su hermana (bueno siempre se acompañan) la Obertura para el Festival Academico ( traduccion libre) que es genial y que no digan que es una obra menor escrita con apuro y esas cosas, es una obertura plena, magnifica, imponente, muy buena.

La Orquesta Sinfonica de Londres suena como ella sabe hacerlo portentosa, bastante sutil, energica y poderosa, vibrante, definitivamente extraordinaria; al final mis halagos y respetos para el joven Michael Tilsson Thomas, que como el mas grande de los veteranos y con la fuerza e impetu de la juventud logra una conduccion soberbia.

the serenade is perhaps full of elegance, but sounds boring to me. The Tragic ouverture I like most. Good record.