Monday, July 6, 2009

brahms first symphony in C minor opus 68

so here we have brahms first symphony in c minor opus 68. i ran across this lp just now and ripped it because i'm freaky like that. this is an OLD 33rpm on telefunken (lgx 66003) that advertisies it self as being a long playing microgroove flexible vinyl record that is in fact about as flexible as a dinner plate. one lp in a cardboard inner sleeve with a thick plastic cover inside a box, they wrapped this sucker for the long haul and it's made out pretty well nigh on 60 years later.
joseph keilberth conducts the berlin philharmonic orchestra and for all the packaging there is no other information about the recording or the players; instead talking about brahms and this his first coming late at age 43 in a time when the public had turned away from classical outlines (violently, apparently), and to highly colored 'programme music' of liszt and wagner. he suffered many piquant comments at the time and critics called the first "the tenth" because of similarities in the finale to beethovens ninth to which brahms reportedly said "any fool can see that". so say the liner notes anyway. strikes me as a nice piece of music.
check it if you like.

2 comments:

jean lafite said...

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http://rapidshare.com/files/252896122/brahms_no1-keilberth_and_berlin_philharmonic.part2.rar

http://rapidshare.com/files/252896138/brahms_no1-keilberth_and_berlin_philharmonic.part3.rar

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