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The вЂAвЂ™ in bar two is an A flat, tipping the work instantly towards the minor key, with a sinister tritone adding to the sense of angst. Were Schumann and his troubled end a cue for this great outpouring?Д«rahmsвЂ™s use of the F-A-F cipher is itself ambiguous.

It can be no coincidence that there is a clear echo of SchumannвЂ™s own Third Symphony, the Rhenish, in the passionate down-sweep of the strings in bar three of the Brahms. The great summons at the opening rests on the notes F-A-F (вЂFrei aber frohвЂ™, вЂFree but happyвЂ™), a cipher Brahms had used in response to his friend Joseph JoachimвЂ™s motto F-A-E (вЂFrei aber einsamвЂ™, вЂFree but lonelyвЂ™) in that halcyon age in DГјsseldorf in the early 1850s when the young Brahms was taken under the wing of Robert and Clara Schumann. He remained resolutely silent as to the workвЂ™s inner content yet the music itself provides clues. And there is the added peculiarity of its being, unusually for its genre and age, a symphony in which all four movements end quietly.Д«rahms was 50 and at the zenith of his art when he completed it in 1883. It is a glorious work, yet a deeply troubled one. The Third is the most personal of BrahmsвЂ™s four symphonies, and the shortest. It is none the less remarkable how well this most elusive of great 19th-century symphonies was served in the early years of electronic recording. Had Clemens KraussвЂ™s superb 1930 Vienna Philharmonic HMV recording been available, WRA might have worried less. So wrote WR Anderson in Gramophone in September 1935 at the end of a survey during which he had struggled to decide whether Leopold Stokowski or Willem Mengelberg had his vote in BrahmsвЂ™s Third Symphony. What a lift in those themes, and what tenderness beneath their power! Brahms for ever!вЂ™ вЂIt is enormously rewarding вЂ“ one of the worldвЂ™s grandest bracers. To find the perfect subscription for you, simply visit: .uk/subscribe

#Lotus symphony 3 guides archive

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