When my father bought our first stereo, he also bought a fairly random selection of classical LPs, permanently forming my taste for the great Romantics. Brahms Third was one of the first works I became obsessed with.
Roz Kaveney
Happy birthday to Johannes Brahms, 193 today. Here’s Bruno Walter conducting the Third Symphony, where the indeterminacy of the opening bars - alpine vertiginousness, underlying darkness, merriment, serenity - is almost the quintessence of this great musical laureate of contradiction and ambiguity
