Brahms
The first of five programmes of works from the 1860s: Brahms was gradually establishing himself in Vienna, and trying to free himself from his emotional attachment to Clara Schumann.
Waltzes in Band E, Op 39 Nos 1-2: Michel Beroff
Jean-Philippe Collard (piano duet)
Sextet No 1 in B flat
Amadeus String Quartet Cecil Aronowitz (viola) William Pleeth (cello)
Neekereien, Op 31 No2
A n die Heimat, Op 64 No 1 Edith Mathis (soprano),
Brigitte Fassbaender (alto), Peter Schreier (tenor),
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
(bar); Karl Engel (piano)
Variations on a Theme by Paganini, Op 35 Book II Claudio Arrau (piano)
Records. Producer John Thornley