Brahms: Symphony No. 4; MacMillan: Larghetto for Orchestra
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Manfred Honeck
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The opening phrase of the fourth movement of this Brahms Symphony gives a sense of the newness that Manfred Honeck consistently brings to war-horse repertoire. While most conductors save the real drama for later, Honeck’s phrase is powerfully shaped, passing from sobriety to ferocity in 7 bars and assertively establishing the mood of apocalyptic pessimism in which this symphony closes. The performance is similarly chiseled and compelling throughout, and finely engineered.