Title:
Johannes Brahms [CD]
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Publication Date:
2002
Publication Information:
[Hong Kong] : Naxos Music Library, p2002.
Physical Description:
4 compact discs (ca. 300 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
ISBN:
9781843790570
Abstract:
Presents the life and work of Johannes Brahms, one of the best-loved yet most controversial of the Romantics. The recording is illustrated with quotations from the composer and his contemporaries, enhanced by extended extracts from representative works. Accompanying booklet (136 p.) includes essays and notes on the composer and his times.
General Note:
Unabridged version.
Performers:
Jeremy Siepmann, narrator ; Jasper Britton (Brahms), Karen Archer (Christiane Brahms, Clara Schumann), Ruth Sillers (Eugenie Schumann, Agathe von Siebold, Frau Friedländer, Elisabeth von Herzogenberg, Mrs. Partington), Neville Jason (Joseph Joachim, von Sahr, Specht, Hans von Bülow, Critics), Nicholas Boulton (Georg Henschel, Albert Dietrich, Max Kalbeck, Antonín Dvořák, Robert Schauffler, Dr. Breuer), Steve Hodson (Eduard Marxsen, Robert Schumann, Selmar Bagge, Edward Bernsdorf, Karl Martin Reinthaler, Theodor Billroth, Eduard Hanslick, Bronsiław Huberman), David Timson (Arnold Schlönbach, Julius Schmidt, Hermann Levi, Joseph Widmann, Julius Wachsmann).
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Language:
English