Sérénades

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A new look at the beginnings of Brahms by Riccardo ChaillyThe Serenades are Brahms' first two orchestral works, written between 1857 and 1860 in Detmold where the composer conducted the Court choir and performed as a pianist. These youthful works are strongly tied to the style of Haydn and Mozart while being very contrasting.Not corresponding to the image that the public had of Brahms at the time, they were rarely performed in concert. Even today, they are part of the little recorded repertoire, as this is indeed their first release on Decca since 1968.For maestro Riccardo Chailly, a true specialist of Brahms, the Serenades are not eclectic at all; rather, they represent an exercise in style, which will later be the key to writing his symphonies: It immediately sounds like Brahms, you recognize the vocabulary and grammar of his symphonic language.Riccardo Chailly, at the head of the Gewandhaus in Leipzig, thus delivers all the subtlety of what he rightly considers to be Brahms' first symphonic masterpieces.