"This is a mighty Brahms First which, like the programme it inhabits, is a thing sufficient unto itself."

"These are intensely dramatic performances, powerful and unmanicured. The gathering drama of the three choral pieces is channeled and unleashed in a towering account of the First Symphony's opening movement."

GRAMOPHONE - September 2008

John Eliot Gardiner on BBC Radio 3 - CD Review
John Eliot Gardiner is interviewed by Andrew McGregor on CD review.
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John Eliot Gardiner talking about Bach and Brahms
From a Dutch television broadcast last autumn, John Eliot Gardiner talks about 'Bach seen through the prism of Brahms'.
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SDG702 - Brahms Symphony 1
The Guardian Oct 2008

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SDG702 - Brahms Symphony 1
Music Web International Sep 2008
Gardiner gives a marvellous performance. The beautiful, spacious orchestral introduction, in warm, luminous E flat major, is unfolded most sympathetically...
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