Wiener Symphoniker, Wolfgang Sawallisch - Brahms: Complete Symphonies (1993)

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Title: Brahms: Complete Symphonies
Year Of Release: 1993
Label: Philips
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (image+.cue,log,scans)
Total Time: 76:47+77:49
Total Size: 740 MB
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Tracklist:

CD1
Symphony 1 in C minor Op. 68
1. I. Un poco sostenuto
2. II. Andante sostenuto
3. III. Un poco allegretto grazioso
4. IV. Adagio
Symphony 3 in F Op. 90
5. I. Allegro con brio
6. II. Andante
7. III. Poco allegretto
8. IV. Allegro

CD2
Symphony No. 2 in D major
1. I. Allegro non troppo
2. II. Adagio non troppo
3. III. Allegretto grazioso (Quasi andantino)
4. IV. Allegro con spirito
Symphony No. 4 in E minor
5. I. Allegro non troppo
6. II. Andante moderato
7. III. Allegro giocoso
8. IV. Allegro energico e passionato

Wolfgang Sawallisch has not been lucky in Brahms. Although a good value at two discs for the price of one, these performances are really nothing special. The Vienna Symphony is not the Vienna Philharmonic, and though they improved under Eliahu Inbal, they were a distinctly second-rate group when these recordings were made. Sawallisch himself offers no special insights that lend his Brahms any particular distinction. --David Hurwitz