Carlos kleiber conducts brahms
No one experienced in great music",wrote the distinguished English music analyst Sir Donald Tovey,"could fail to see that the Fourth phony's long quiet opening sentence is the beginning of a great and tragic work" Few symphonies begin with so obviously brave and determined a sense of tragic journeying; Nor does any complete its journey with more unremitting honestly,fiercely in the minor key,stormily confronting its own destiny.
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