Life & Works——Brahms

　　Life and Works
　　Brahms
　　Author and Narrator: Jeremy Siepmann
　　Jasper Britton as Brahms
　　Other roles taken by Karen Archer, Elaine Claxton, Ruth Sillers, Neville Jason, Nicholas Boulton, Steve Hodson and David Timson
　　4 CDs
　　136-page booklet
　　Naxos 8.558071-74
　　ISBN: 1-84379-057-2
　　Brahms is one of the best-loved yet most controversial of all the Romantics. Almost uniquely, his works hav... (展开全部) 　　Life and Works
　　Brahms
　　Author and Narrator: Jeremy Siepmann
　　Jasper Britton as Brahms
　　Other roles taken by Karen Archer, Elaine Claxton, Ruth Sillers, Neville Jason, Nicholas Boulton, Steve Hodson and David Timson
　　4 CDs
　　136-page booklet
　　Naxos 8.558071-74
　　ISBN: 1-84379-057-2
　　Brahms is one of the best-loved yet most controversial of all the Romantics. Almost uniquely, his works have never suffered the slightest period of eclipse. Profoundly emotional yet governed by an iron discipline, the music, like the man, is a fascinating, entertaining, often deeply moving blend of opposites. He had a gift for friendship and a capacity for love far beyond the ordinary, yet no man could be ruder or more hurtful. Though humble, he was consumed by a sense of destiny, and his inner life, coloured by his adoration and fear of women, found expression in some of the greatest music ever written.
　　Listening to this audio-biography is leaping inside the life and times of a great German Romantic, understanding the man who was haunted by the ghost of Beethoven for years and was forty-three before he wrote his First Symphony. Accompanied by a richly detailed booklet, this 4 CD-set is a sympathetic, absorbing account of a fascinating composer.　　

　　Disc 1
　　JOHANNES BRAHMS
　　Life and Works of Brahms
　　01. Destiny, Birth, and Childhood 08:42
　　02. From Brothel to Beethoven 05:00
　　03. Hungarian Dance No. 1 03:06
　　04. A Life-changing Tour 01:11
　　05. The Meeting with Joachim 01:43
　　06. Piano Sonata No. 3 in F minor, Op. 5(Scherzo) 04:32
　　07. Joachim Weighs In 04:42
　　08. Enter the Schumanns 02:32
　　09. Piano Sonata No. 3 in F minor, Op. 5(first movement) 07:07
　　10. Prophecy and Tragedy: a Double Yoke 07:16
　　11. Piano Trio No. 2 in C, Op. 87(Scherzo) 03:22
　　12. Brahms and Clara 10:14
　　13. Piano Sonata No. 1 in C, Op. 1(Finale) 07:18
　　14. A Triangular Bond 04:45
　　15. The Death of Schumann - and a Fateful Decision 04:19
　　Disc 2
　　01. The Young Messiah 08:30
　　02. Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15(opening) 03:54
　　03. The Virtuoso Takes Flight 03:49
　　04. Variations on a Theme by Paganini, Op. 35 02:12
　　05. Detmold and Distraction 03:52
　　06. Serenade No. 1 in D, Op. 11 02:40
　　07. Birth of the D minor Concerto 02:49
　　08. Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15(Finale) 02:30
　　09. The Taste of Failure - and of New Love 04:05
　　10. String Sextet in B flat, Op. 18 (Andante) 01:39
　　11. Love, Folly, and a New Calling 08:31
　　12. Motet 'Ich aber bin elend', Op. 110 No. 1 02:48
　　13. Brahms and Wagner 02:26
　　14. Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24 (Fugue) 05:28
　　15. Frustrated Hopes and a Mother's Death 12:20
　　16. Trio for Horn, Violin and Piano, Op. 40 (Finale) 06:10
　　Disc 3
　　01. The Road to the Requiem 03:29
　　02. A German Requiem ('Denn alles Fleisch es ist wie Gras') 05:42
　　03. The Wanderer 04:34
　　04. Waltz in E, Op. 39 No. 2 01:22
　　05. The Consummate Performer 09:49
　　06. Five Studies for Piano (No. 3: Presto in G minor, after Bach) 01:57
　　07. Paradox Personified: the Tender Savage 08:18
　　08. Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat, Op. 83 (Andante) 08:39
　　09. A Demanding Friend 06:33
　　10. Variations on a Theme by Haydn (or Variations on the St Antony Chorale), Op. 56a 03:41
　　11. The Eternal Child 04:19
　　12. The Ghost Exorcised 03:54
　　13. Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68 (Finale) 12:22
　　Disc 4
　　01. A Watershed in Brahm's Career 00:42
　　02. Symphony No. 2 in D, Op. 73 (third movement) 05:17
　　03. The External Brahms 05:01
　　04. A Free Man at Last 03:05
　　05. Violin Concerto in D, Op. 77 (slow movement) 11:57
　　06. The Composer at Work 05:49
　　07. Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80 03:31
　　08. Celebrity and Scholar 05:06
　　09. Motet 'Wenn ein starker Gewappneter', Op. 109, No. 2 02:41
　　10. Love, Loss, and Reconciliation 02:40
　　11. Concerto for Violin and Cello in A minor, Op. 102 (slow movement) 02:52
　　12. The Greatest Living Composer - but a Difficult Friend 03:02
　　13. The Philanthropist 02:45
　　14. Decline and Death 11:13
　　15. Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat, Op. 83 (Finale) 09:07
　　Jeremy Siepmann, reader