Search - J. Brahms :: Complete Symphonies etc.

2010 four CD release. This set includes the famed 1951 Hamburg performance of the First Symphony, one of the most cleanly engineered of all Furtw„ngler performance-recordings to survive; a hair-raising Second with the Vienna Philhamonic (Furtw„ngler's last performance before escaping to Switzerland because he learned he was on the Nazi's hit list); a beautifuly proportioned Third from 1954; and a sizzling 1943 Fourth that will raise hairs on the back of your neck. This is a release of enormous significance. These transfers are equal or superior to all other versions of these performances released. These are performances of monumental importance, some of the finest Brahms in the grand tradition that you will ever hear, reproduced just about as well as today's technology will permit one of the most important Furtw„ngler issues that we have had in years.