In this release IDIS presents to the audience an authentic rarity: the brilliant Brahms’ Third Symphony recorded at the Berlin Radio with the Berliner Philarmoniker in 1950. In this touching recording with a very high sound quality for that time, Knappertsbusch reveals himself a great performer and interpreter of Brahms music very far from that rhetoric that so many German performers used to give to this works which is instead , by its nature, the most intimist and reflexive among Brahms Symphonies. The Haydn Symphony no 94 in a very modern version ends the CD, also live recorded in 1950, where Knappertsbusch is against any concession to poor sense of humor and to the so called “ Vienna good temper” which for two centuries have characterized the interpretation of Brahms Symphonies.
