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Background: Fear or admiration? Probably both: Brahms never made a secret of the inspiration he drew from Beethoven’s symphonies, but before he published his first Symphony - inspired by Beethoven’s Fith and Ninth- he had struggled for no less than fourteen years with it.

In the mean time he wrote many more pieces and for instance his Variations on a theme by Haydn are considered to be a preliminary exercise before venturing on to the First Symphony. The opening piece of this recording, Hungarian Dance No.14, goes back to Brahms as a young café pianist, when he and his father earned a bit on the side in bars in the red-light district of Hamburg and where he first heard heard Hungarian gipsy music.

CATALOGUE NR: CCSSA28309
RECORD LABEL: Channel Classics
FORMAT: Hybrid SACD
PRICE: including VAT £ 12.95
RELEASE DATE: 28-Sep-2009

COMPOSER: Johannes Brahms
TRACKS: Hungarian Dance No.14 (originally for piano duet arranged for string orchestra by Ivan Fischer). Variations on a theme by Joseph Haydn op.56a. Symphony No.1 in C minor op.68.
ORCHESTRA: Budapest Festival Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Ivan Fischer

- Xmas-2009 5 star BBC Music Mag.

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