Brahms Symphonies No 3 and 4 Semyon Bychkov WDR Sinfonieorchester Koln (2003)

Semyon Bychkov WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln SYMPHONY NO 3 IN F MAJOR OP 90 SYMPHONY NO 4 IN E MINOR OP 98 Far from being conservative as Brahms often has been referred to his symphonies show the composer as a groundbreaking pioneer far ahead of his time He may not have broken dramatic new ground in the same way as his musical colleagues Liszt and Wagner who invented new genres Instead his innovations took place at the mircrolevel within musics inner palm In this respect Brahms was far ahead of his time and this fact explains what half a century later Arnold Schoenberg regards him as progressive and was referring to him for his own compositional theory