Even as he is most closely associated with the music of Wagner and Beethoven, conductor Georg Solti enjoyed a long and fruitful relationship with the orchestral music of Johannes Brahms. Solti's own personal preferences in terms of Brahms, judging based on his performance history, were slanted toward the Haydn Variations, German Requiem, and the concerti, but in the late '70s he undertook a cycle of the symphonies with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for Decca London that some expert listeners feel have never been bettered ...
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Even as he is most closely associated with the music of Wagner and Beethoven, conductor Georg Solti enjoyed a long and fruitful relationship with the orchestral music of Johannes Brahms. Solti's own personal preferences in terms of Brahms, judging based on his performance history, were slanted toward the Haydn Variations, German Requiem, and the concerti, but in the late '70s he undertook a cycle of the symphonies with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for Decca London that some expert listeners feel have never been bettered since. Solti's Brahms is flexible, easygoing, and never hurried, and the late analog recording, made at the Medinah Temple in Chicago, is warm, lush, and persuasive. During these sessions, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra sounds near perfect in intonation and in responsiveness to its conductor. Solti does bring some sense of individuality to the proceedings in his choice of tempi, which are generally on the slow side and directed with a design toward expansiveness in Brahms, a working...
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