{"product_id":"philharmonisches-orchester-der-hansestadt-brahms-1_aec-musp56936sacd","title":"Philharmonisches Orchester Der Hansestadt - Brahms 1","description":"\u003cp\u003eDuring the fourteen years in which he worked on his First Symphony, Brahms was under a high pressure of expectation: in the shadow cast by Beethoven, he was forced to take a compositionally convincing position both with respect to the dominant father figure as well as the New German School. Moreover, he saw himself associated with friends who pressed him for a first symphony. And, finally, in the 1850s the scrupulous, hard working but at times insecure Brahms suffered setbacks in at least two attempts to form a symphony out of already extensively developed compositional material. Among all these obstacles, Beethoven's model was undoubtedly the greatest. Concerning this, the following remarks by Brahms have come down to us: he explained to his friend Carl Bargheer of Detmold: If one still attempts to write symphonies after Beethoven, then they have to look entirely different. Some ten years later, after he had already composed a first version of the opening movement of his First Symphony, he admitted to the conductor Hermann Levi: I will never compose a symphony! You have no idea how I feel when I always hear such a giant marching behind me - meaning Beethoven. Strauss' tone poem Death and Transfiguration is an example of a poetic idea that was retrospectively assigned. Alexander Ritter, poet-musician in Meiningen also gave the new composition the title and program: Ritter initially thought of the title Seraphic Fantasy - thus a first hint of a metaphysical program - but then decided on Death and Transfiguration. But that's not all: Strauss had a poem by Ritters that existed in two versions preceded the printed score, combining music and poetry. This dedicated program came into being only after the composition had been completed - whether Strauss was creatively guided by a poetic idea remains to be seen.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Musicaphon","offers":[{"title":"New \/ SACD \/ Brahms 1 Musicaphon","offer_id":47254631612724,"sku":"MUSP56936SACD","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0790\/7436\/1652\/files\/3931164-2675330_57530904-ab1f-4f0b-8366-6f395ac46b99.jpg?v=1792532460","url":"https:\/\/www.fye.com\/products\/philharmonisches-orchester-der-hansestadt-brahms-1_aec-musp56936sacd","provider":"FYE","version":"1.0","type":"link"}