Deutsche Grammophon / 4863519
“The Brahms project with the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique in 2007 was a thrilling undertaking – a thorough reappraisal of Brahms’s sound world, both in terms of period instruments and a study of the surviving evidence of performance practice. So why then a second recording 18 years later? First, because these symphonies are evergreen – miracles at the time of their inception and super-challenging every time one encounters them. Second, because I sensed a need and a personal challenge to build on that seminal earlier experience and to extend its findings and interpretations to/in working with a modern instrument orchestra in search of a fresh synthesis of styles and approaches.” – John Eliot Gardiner.
3-CD digipack with 24-page booklet with a personal remark by John Eliot Gardiner and liner notes by Peter Quantrill (in English/German) plus biographies of both the conductor and the orchestra.