COMPOSERS: Brahms
LABELS: Eloquence
ALBUM TITLE: Brahms
WORKS: Symphonies Nos 1-4
PERFORMER: The Vienna Philharmonic/Rafael Kubelík
CATALOGUE NO: 482 4969 (1956-57)
Unmannered, firmly structured and phrased with loving musicality, Rafael Kubelík’s Brahms cycle with the Vienna Philharmonic in traditional form remains classic, despite its now aged recorded sound.
Bayan Northcott