Celebrating Brahms.

[Megan]

Celebrating the Birth of Johannes Brahms. (7, May, 1833) of The genius of Hamburg .

[Michael]

The greatest symphonist after you-know-who!

[Peter]

Happy birthday Johannes! My selection on this glorious sunny day to mark the occasion is the 3rd movt from the 1st symphony conducted by Gunter Wand - I love this anecdote: "As still a young conductor, a journalist asked him how he’d consider interpreting Beethoven's ninth symphony, more like Arturo Toscanini or rather like Wilhelm Furtwängler. Wand answered laconically: "like Beethoven"

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPIxCzOysR0[/YOUTUBE]