Lutosławski's last work of its genre, Symphony No. 4 is a synthesis of his symphonic style, generating a mood of concentration, meditation, reverie and nostalgia. Of the Symphony's two movements - ...

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Work for piano and orchestra, composed in 1932, dedicated to Artur Rubinstein. On this page we present two articles on Karol Szymanowski's Symphony No. 4 (Symphonie concertante) Op. 60 - by Anna ...

The Fourth Symphony is probably Beethoven’s least well known, a situation that no doubt owes much to its position sandwiched between the Third – at that time the largest and most complex symphony ever ...

Written shortly after the epic "Eroica" expanded the concept of what a symphony can be, Ludwig van Beethoven's Fourth Symphony makes a simpler statement. It's a crowd-pleaser. Symphony No. 4 is more ...

Mahler will always be remembered for his huge orchestral works – and his Symphony No.4 fits perfectly into that mould. It’s interesting, then, that the symphony also exists in pared down form. At the ...

Mahler came to regard the Fourth Symphony as the closing work in a quartet of works, although there are still seeds of it left in the Fifth Symphony. The music in the Fourth is all derived from the ...

A tortured Romantic genius — destined to die young — celebrates the beauty of nature and the majesty of a medieval cathedral. Robert and Clara Schumann arrived in the Rhineland city of Dusseldorf on 2 ...

Naivety or knowingness? Conductors from Abbado to Zinman have offered takes on this fin de siècle masterpiece, writes David Gutman In the early 1950s the ever-sceptical Record Guide of Edward ...

The Gothenburg Symphony are outstanding in this all Sibelius disc, but chief conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali’s fresh approach doesn’t always bring rewards The previous releases in Santtu-Matias ...

Robert Schumann thought of his fourth symphony as a symphonic fantasy, not a classical symphony. He wanted all four movements to be performed without pauses to focus on the work as a whole — and to ...

Brahms' Symphony No. 4 Alan Gilbert is among the hottest of a new generation of conductors. He leads the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra in a concert performance of the Symphony No. 4 by Johannes Brahms.