And, lastly, after the brilliant wanderings of the first movement’s development, the return home of the recapitulation and coda. (You can go to Carlos Kleiber’s interpretation of the recap by clicking here.)
But, before you listen to Kleiber’s performance, try comparing the the opening of the exposition with that of the recap (recap starts at 2:30). Differences??
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Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D, Op. 73
00:00 Allegro non troppo
14:50 Adagio non troppo
24:34 Allegretto grazioso (quasi andantino)
29:56 Allegro con spirito
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It’s somewhat ironic that it wasn’t the success of the symphonies, concertos, choral music or chamber music that earned the composer a major part of his finances. No, it was a collection of twenty-one pieces that he didn’t even dignify with opus numbers (they were given WoO numbers [Werke ohne Opuszahl works without opus number]). And yet his two sets of Hungarian Dances (1869 and 1880) proved extremely popular and very lucrative.
They were originally written for two players at one piano:
Hungarian Dances Nos. 1 & 5
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Most orchestral versions of the Hungarian Dances are the work of others, but Brahms himself orchestrated three of the twenty-one – Nos. 1, 3 & 10:
0:05 Hungarian dance n°1
3:26 Hungarian dance n°3
6:03 Hungarian dance n°10
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