(Visually Graded) Vinyl looks Near Mint and Sleeve looks VG. See pics and info for details. Brahms: Symphony No 2, Tragic Overture, Otto Klemperer, Philharmonia Orchestra
Label: Angel Records – S 35532 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, 12", 33 RPM, Stereo Country: US Released: 1969 Genre: Classical Style: Symphony, Romantic
Tracklist
Brahms: Symphony No. 2 In D, Op. 73 (Beginning) A1 1. Allegro Non Troppo 15:02 A2 2. Adagio Non Troppo 9:18
Composed By – Johannes Brahms Conductor – Otto Klemperer Illustration – Milein Cosman Orchestra – Philharmonia Orchestra
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Recorded in Europe, Manufactured in USA.
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- Otto Klemperer Real Name: Otto Nossan Klemperer Profile: German conductor and composer, born 14 May 1885 in Breslau, Lower Silesia, German Empire (today Wrocław, Poland) and died 6 July 1973 in Zürich, Switzerland.
- Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 73, was composed by Johannes Brahms in the summer of 1877, during a visit to Pörtschach am Wörthersee, a town in the Austrian province of Carinthia. Its composition was brief in comparison with the 21 years it took Brahms to complete his First Symphony.
The symphony is scored for 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, and strings.
The cheery and almost pastoral mood of the symphony often invites comparisons with Beethoven's Sixth Symphony, but, perhaps mischievously, Brahms wrote to his publisher on November 22, 1877, that the symphony "is so melancholy that you will not be able to bear it. I have never written anything so sad, and the score must come out in mourning."
The premiere was given in Vienna on 30 December 1877 by the Vienna Philharmonic under the direction of Hans Richter; Walter Frisch notes that it had originally been scheduled for 9 December, but "in one of those little ironies of music history, it had to be postponed [because] the players were so preoccupied with learning Das Rheingold by Richard Wagner." A typical performance lasts between 40 and 50 minutes. - wikipedia
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