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Recorded live at: Symphony No. 1 at Rhein-Mosel-Halle, Koblenz 26.09.2008,
Symphony No. 2 at Großes Festspielhaus, Salzburg 27/28.09.2007,
Symphony No. 3 at Großes Festspielhaus, Salzburg 04.03.2009,
Symphony No. 4 at Concertgebouw, Amsterdam 27.04.2008
Artists: Staatsorchester Rheinische Philharmonie
Daniel Raiskin, Conductor
Produced by: Staatsorchester Rheinische Philharmonie
Balance engineer: Holger Urbach
Edited and Mixed by: Holger Urbach Musikproduktion, Ratingen
Mastered by: Holger Urbach
Post-mastering by: Tim Lengfeld
Daniel Raiskin’s photos by: Marco Borggreve
Rheinische Philharmonie’s photos by: Hermann & Clärchen Baus
Graphic Design: Glitz-design
Program notes by: Barry Ross
German translation: Winfried Lùˆdemann
Symphony No. 2 at Großes Festspielhaus, Salzburg 27/28.09.2007,
Symphony No. 3 at Großes Festspielhaus, Salzburg 04.03.2009,
Symphony No. 4 at Concertgebouw, Amsterdam 27.04.2008
Artists: Staatsorchester Rheinische Philharmonie
Daniel Raiskin, Conductor
Produced by: Staatsorchester Rheinische Philharmonie
Balance engineer: Holger Urbach
Edited and Mixed by: Holger Urbach Musikproduktion, Ratingen
Mastered by: Holger Urbach
Post-mastering by: Tim Lengfeld
Daniel Raiskin’s photos by: Marco Borggreve
Rheinische Philharmonie’s photos by: Hermann & Clärchen Baus
Graphic Design: Glitz-design
Program notes by: Barry Ross
German translation: Winfried Lùˆdemann
Track List
CD1
SYMPHONY NO. 1 IN C MINOR, OP. 68
Live at Rhein-Mosel-Halle, Koblenz
1 Un poco sostenuto – Allegro – Meno allegro
2 Andante sostenuto
3 Un poco allegretto e grazioso
4 Adagio – Più andante – Allegro non troppo, ma con brio – Più allegro
CD2
SYMPHONY NO. 2 IN D MAJOR, OP. 73
Live at Großes Festspielhaus, Salzburg
1 Allegro non troppo
2 Adagio non troppo
3 Allegretto grazioso (quasi andantino)
4 Allegro con spirito
CD3
SYMPHONY NO. 3 IN F MAJOR, OP. 90
Live at Großes Festspielhaus, Salzburg
1 Allegro con brio
2 Andante
3 Poco allegretto
4 Allegro
SYMPHONY NO. 4 IN E MINOR, OP. 98
Live at Concertgebouw, Amsterdam
5 Allegro non troppo
6 Andante moderato
7 Allegro giocoso
8 Allegro energico e passionato
SYMPHONY NO. 1 IN C MINOR, OP. 68
Live at Rhein-Mosel-Halle, Koblenz
1 Un poco sostenuto – Allegro – Meno allegro
2 Andante sostenuto
3 Un poco allegretto e grazioso
4 Adagio – Più andante – Allegro non troppo, ma con brio – Più allegro
CD2
SYMPHONY NO. 2 IN D MAJOR, OP. 73
Live at Großes Festspielhaus, Salzburg
1 Allegro non troppo
2 Adagio non troppo
3 Allegretto grazioso (quasi andantino)
4 Allegro con spirito
CD3
SYMPHONY NO. 3 IN F MAJOR, OP. 90
Live at Großes Festspielhaus, Salzburg
1 Allegro con brio
2 Andante
3 Poco allegretto
4 Allegro
SYMPHONY NO. 4 IN E MINOR, OP. 98
Live at Concertgebouw, Amsterdam
5 Allegro non troppo
6 Andante moderato
7 Allegro giocoso
8 Allegro energico e passionato
Press
Gramophone - February 2012
Richard Osborne
The symphonies live in Austria, Germany and Holland Readings of the four Brahms symphonies which are as musicianly and clear-sighted as these beg the question: why is conductor Daniel Raiskin, a musicologist’s son from St Petersburg, not better known? He is clearly a musician of sensibility, well versed in his craft; a further example perhaps of one last great gift of the old Soviet Union, the rigour and distinction of its conducting schools.
This is classically minded Brahms, the long-gestated First Symphony spry rather than burdened. Listening to these performances with Raiskin’s judiciously sized Rheinische Philharmonie, I am reminded of Yehudi Menuhin’s remark about ‘the quiet spaces in Brahms’s music’ and its relationship to a distinctive northern clime. ‘It is no accident,’ he wrote, ‘that the people of Hamburg and Bremen understand Brahms as no other public does.’ Raiskin’s performances fill those quiet spaces. The inner movements of the Third Symphony are especially fine. Like the late Carlo Maria Giulini, he began his professional career as a viola player, and it shows, both here and in a pleasingly contoured account of the Second Symphony.
Richard Osborne
The symphonies live in Austria, Germany and Holland Readings of the four Brahms symphonies which are as musicianly and clear-sighted as these beg the question: why is conductor Daniel Raiskin, a musicologist’s son from St Petersburg, not better known? He is clearly a musician of sensibility, well versed in his craft; a further example perhaps of one last great gift of the old Soviet Union, the rigour and distinction of its conducting schools.
This is classically minded Brahms, the long-gestated First Symphony spry rather than burdened. Listening to these performances with Raiskin’s judiciously sized Rheinische Philharmonie, I am reminded of Yehudi Menuhin’s remark about ‘the quiet spaces in Brahms’s music’ and its relationship to a distinctive northern clime. ‘It is no accident,’ he wrote, ‘that the people of Hamburg and Bremen understand Brahms as no other public does.’ Raiskin’s performances fill those quiet spaces. The inner movements of the Third Symphony are especially fine. Like the late Carlo Maria Giulini, he began his professional career as a viola player, and it shows, both here and in a pleasingly contoured account of the Second Symphony.
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