The Break-Up
There's a rare glimpse at Joachim the composer, and Donald Macleod details how he and Brahms devastatingly fell out after Joachim's acrimonious divorce from his wife Amalie.
Donald Macleod explores the lifelong friendship between Brahms and the great violin virtuoso Joseph Joachim - and the music of genius that resulted.
Throughout his life, Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) enjoyed the close friendship of two kindred musical spirits: the pianist Clara Schumann and the violinist Joseph Joachim. Yet whilst his relationship with the former is much-pored over - friends, colleagues, maybe lovers? - his deep musical connection with Joachim is often passed over. This week, Donald Macleod explores the adventures, trials and tribulations that Brahms and Joachim encountered through their four-decade-long association and the musical masterpieces for violin that resulted. Donald presents the three movements of the Violin Concerto across three days in three utterly beguiling, and very different, recordings by Vadim Gluzman, David Oistrakh and Janine Jansen; plus, Friday brings a complete performance of the often-overlooked Double Concerto for Violin and Cello. In between, we'll hear all three violin sonatas in their entirety and a host of jewels from Brahms' chamber output - plus a rare piano-duet performance of his First Symphony by the Duo Crommelynck, and on Friday, a guest appearance from Brahms and Joachim themselves.
Once upon a time, Joachim was considered as promising a composer as Brahms, before his genius at the violin consumed all his time. Today we get a rare glimpse at Joachim the composer, with his dazzling Second Violin Concerto, "in the Hungarian Style", before Donald Macleod details how he and Brahms devastatingly fell out after Joachim's acrimonious divorce from his wife Amalie.
Joseph Joachim
Violin Concerto No 2 in D Minor "in the Hungarian Style" (3rd mvt)
Christian Tetzlaff, violin
Danish National Orchestra
Thomas Dausgaard, conductor
Brahms
Hungarian Dance No 5 in G Minor
Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin
Lambert Orkis, piano
Brahms
Gestillte Sehnsucht, Op 91 No 1
Kathleen Ferrier, contralto
Maxim Gilbert, viola
Phyllis Spurr, piano
Brahms
Violin Sonata No 3 in D Minor, Op 108
Christian Tetzlaff, violin
Lars Vogt, piano
Brahms
Violin Concerto D Major, Op 77 (3rd mvt)
Janine Jansen, violin
London Symphony Orchestra
Antonio Pappano, conductor
Produced by Steven Rajam for 大象传媒 Wales.
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Johannes Brahms
Violin Concerto No 2 in D minor, "in the Hungarian Style"
Performer: Christian Tetzlaff. Orchestra: Danish National Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard. -
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Johannes Brahms
Hungarian Dance No 5 in G minor
Performer: Anne鈥怱ophie Mutter. Performer: Lambert Orkis.- The Berlin Recital.
- Deutsche Grammophon.
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Johannes Brahms
Gestillte Sehnsucht, Op 91
Performer: Phyllis Spurr. Performer: Max Gilbert. Singer: Kathleen Ferrier.- Kathleen Ferrier Centenary Edition.
- DECCA.
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Johannes Brahms
Violin Sonata No 3 in D minor, Op 108
Performer: Christian Tetzlaff. Performer: Lars Vogt.- Brahms - The Violin Sonatas.
- ONDINE.
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Johannes Brahms
Violin Concerto in D major, Op 77
Performer: Janine Jansen. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano. -
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Johannes Brahms
Waltz No.6 in C sharp major, Op.39
Performer: Dinu Lipatti. Performer: Nadia Boulanger.- PHILIPS.
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