Classic FM Magazine

SDG702 - Brahms Symphony 1 (3 Nov 2008)

This is the kind of didactic programme that, once upon a time, you could have expected to hear on Radio3; it would also make good material for a lecture-recital.  Gardiner's plan is to record the four symphonies and the German Requiem in the context of significant choral works by Brahms himself and by composers whom he admired.  Here, three fine pieces on death and mortality precede the pounding opening to the First Symphony.  The former are beautifully performed....Well worth hearing..."

Classic FM Magazine - December