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BBC Proms: 2020: Carlo Maria Giulini conducts Brahms

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Carlo Maria Giulini conducts Brahms

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Carlo Maria Giulini conducts a Brahms double bill.

BBC Proms: Carlo Maria Giulini and the European Union Youth Orchestra perform Brahms’s Second and Fourth Symphonies in this performance from the 1994 Proms.

In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable Proms concerts.

BBC Proms: Brahms’s development in the time between composing his First and Second Symphonies was remarkable. Despite finishing it less than a year after the premiere of his First, the Second Symphony belongs to an entirely different world. It is an expansive, full-bodied work, infused with the idyllic surroundings of the Austrian spa town in which it was written. 

In this concert from the 1994 Proms, Italian maestro Carlo Maria Giulini and the European Union Youth Orchestra pair the symphony with Brahms’s final effort in the medium: his thrilling Fourth. Written at the height of his musical powers (again, within a year of its predecessor), it is the first symphony by any composer to incorporate a strict set of variations into one of its movements: the finale is based on a repeating bass melody from Bach’s Cantata 150, Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich’.

Presented by Ian Skelly

Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D major
Brahms: Symphony No. 4 in E minor 

European Union Youth Orchestra 
Carlo Maria Giulini (conductor)

(From the BBC Proms 1994, 20 August)

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