Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra * Brahms:Syms 2 & 4 [New CD] Import an Andalusian Elegy~The Canary Dies

an Andalusian Elegy~The Canary Dies (El canario se muere)

Keyboard Suite in a Minor-Allemande 'L'incomparable'

Featuring a phenomenal sextet with Wayne Shorter

if you strip back the layers

constantly switching between off-the-cuff improvisation and intricate musical arrangements

Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra * Brahms:Syms 2 & 4 [New CD] Import an Andalusian Elegy~The Canary DiesHis First Symphony famously took Brahms twenty one years from conception to first performance a marker of both his own highly self critical assessment of his output, combined with the expectation of everyone around him that his symphonic output would naturally pick up where Beethoven had left off. Astonishingly, his Second Symphony was begun in June 1877 and received it's first performance just six months later, by the Vienna Philharmonic and Hans