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Brahms Experience

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BBC NOW performs Brahms's Academic Festival Overture, Double Concerto and Symphony No 1.

Live from Colston Hall, Bristol, BBC NOW under Tadaaki Otaka. Brahms: Academic Festival Overture; Concerto in A minor for violin, cello and orchestra; Symphony No 1 in C minor.

Live from Colston Hall, Bristol

Presented by Tom Service

The BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Conductor Laureate Tadaaki Otaka perform great orchestral works by Brahms, as part of Radio 3's Brahms Experience in Bristol.

The Academic Festival Overture is a musical thank-you to a university that gave Brahms an honorary degree, but the piece is far from dry academia: Brahms described it as a 'boisterous potpourri of student songs'. Violinist Veronika Eberle and cellist Andreas Brantelid join the orchestra in the Double Concerto, Brahms's last orchestral composition, written as a gesture of reconciliation to violinist Joseph Joachim, who had once been the composer's closest friend but who had shunned his acquaintance. The concert ends with Symphony No 1, the work that builds on the foundations of Beethoven while allowing Brahms' distinct symphonic voice to emerge.

Brahms: Academic Festival Overture
Brahms: Concerto in A minor for violin, cello and orchestra

8.20 Interval: Tom Service discusses Brahms's musical manifesto

Brahms: Symphony No 1 in C minor

Veronika Eberle (violin)
Andreas Brantelid (cello)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Tadaaki Otaka (conductor).

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Tom Service presents a series of concerts for Radio 3's Brahms Experience

Tom Service presents a series of concerts, in association with St George's Bristol, for Radio 3's Brahms Experience. With interval discussiong exploring aspects of Brahms's life and music

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