Highly recommended
Between 1981 and 1984 Leonard Bernstein recorded nearly all of Brahms' orchestral works with the Wiener Philharmoniker to honour the 150th anniversary of the composer's birth in 1983. For the concertos, Bernstein enlisted the services of some of the finest Brahms interpreters of the time: the violoninst Gidon Kremer, the cellist Mischa Maisky and the pianist Krystian Zimerman. Seeing Bernstein enjoying himself while conducting the Vienna Philharmonic in these lighter, familiar works by Brahms added to the pleasure I got from them. The Academic Festival Overture is especially well done. Some conductors don't seem to get it, but Bernstein did.
Humphrey Burton
Director
Leonard Bernstein
Himself
Vienna Philharmonic
A Singing Girl
1942
Winter Allegro
2023
Days of Happiness
2023
To Joy
1950
Maestro
2022
Zwischenmusik
1995
Two Girls and a Sailor
1944
Honegger’s “Jeanne d’Arc au bûcher” with Alan Gilbert and Marion Cotillard
2024
Eric Winstone's Stagecoach
1955
Orchestra Rehearsal
1979
Attrazione D'Amore/Voyage to Cythera
1998
The Hollywood Bowl
1950