BRAHMS: Symphonies Nos. 1 and 3 (NTSC)

LEONARD BERNSTEIN conducts
Brahms: Symphonies Nos. 1 and 3

Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
Recorded live at the Great Concert Hall, Jerusalem, 1-3 August 1978

Picture format: NTSC 4:3 fullscreen
Sound format: PCM Stereo / Dolby Digital 5.1 / DTS 5.1
Region code: 0
Booklet notes: English, German, French
Running time: 94 mins
No. of DVDs: 1

• Leonard Bernstein leads the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra in a revelatory performance of Brahms' Symphonies Nos. 1 and 3



• Bernstein cited the Israeli orchestra as one of his favourites with which he worked in his long career



• The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra's robust, thick-textured style has a beauty distinct from the leaner sound cultivated in our own time



• Returning to the Brahms symphonies many times in his conducting career, Bernstein was never a conventional Brahmsian, but nor was he a complacent one content to recycle traditional habits

"My head has been full of Brahms - full of questions about him to which I can't always find an answer, except through his music." (Leonard Bernstein, 1982)
"As a musical communicator, he was unsurpassed!" (The Times, 1990)