2/5. Brahms returned to his home town of Hamburg in 1859, where his reputation as a composerwas steadily growing, and he threw himself into the city's musical and cultural life. But his ambition to conduct the Hamburg
Philharmonic Orchestra was thwarted, and a job opportunity in Vienna turned out not to be what he expected. Presented by Donald Macleod. Gesange, Op 17 Monteverdi Choir, conductor John Eliot Gardiner
Serenade No 2 in A, Op 16 Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, conductor Bernard Haitink
Geistliches Wiegenlied , Op 91 No 2
Brigitte Fassbaender (soprano), Thomas Riebl (viola), Irwin Gage (piano)
German Requiem (excerpt) Hakan Hagegard (baritone), Chicago Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, conductor James Levine Repeated on Monday at 12 midnight