JOHANNES BRAHMS

Sir John Eliot Gardiner announces his upcoming album on which he presents live recordings of all four Brahms Symphonies taken from a cycle of critically acclaimed concerts from Amsterdam with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra starting in 2021.

Explaining his decision to re-record the cycle following a version on period instruments almost two decades ago, Gardiner notes: “I sensed a need and a personal challenge to build on that seminal earlier experience and to extend its findings and interpretations to/in working with a modern instrument orchestra – especially such a distinguished, flexible and immensely accomplished one as the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra – in search of a fresh synthesis of styles and approaches.”

Listen to a first pre-release track, the moving second movement of Brahms’s majestic Symphony No. 1 in C Minor. The full album will be released digitally and on CD on 2 May and is now available for pre-order.

The four concerts, which additionally performed each symphony alongside other key works in Brahms' output, can be viewed on our streaming service STAGE+.