{"product_id":"brahms-brahms-1-super-audio-cd","title":"Brahms - Brahms 1 - Super Audio CD","description":"During the fourteen years in which he worked on his First Symphony, Brahms was under a high pressure of expectation: in the shadow cast by Beethoven, he was forced to take a compositionally convincing position both with respect to the dominant father figure as well as the \"New German School.\" Moreover, he saw himself associated with friends who pressed him for a first symphony. And, finally, in the 1850s the scrupulous, hard working but at times insecure Brahms suffered setbacks in at least two attempts to form a symphony out of already extensively developed compositional material. Among all these obstacles, Beethoven's \"model\" was undoubtedly the greatest. Concerning this, the following remarks by Brahms have come down to us: he explained to his friend Carl Bargheer of Detmold: \"If one still attempts to write symphonies after Beethoven, then they have to look entirely different.\" Some ten years later, after he had already composed a first version of the opening movement of his First Symphony, he admitted to the conductor Hermann Levi: \"I will never compose a symphony! You have no idea how I feel when I always hear such a giant marching behind me\" - meaning Beethoven. Strauss' tone poem Death and Transfiguration \"is an example of a poetic idea that was retrospectively assigned. Alexander Ritter, poet-musician in Meiningen also gave the new composition the title and program: Ritter initially thought of the title \"Seraphic Fantasy\" - thus a first hint of a metaphysical program - but then decided on \"Death and Transfiguration\". But that's not all: Strauss had a poem by Ritters that existed in two versions preceded the printed score, combining music and poetry. This dedicated program came into being only after the composition had been completed - whether Strauss was creatively guided by a \"poetic idea\" remains to be seen.","brand":"Rock Band Merch","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59479737106513,"sku":"MUSP56936SACD","price":22.08,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0620\/5023\/8545\/files\/3931164-2675330_3296f50f-628f-4e9f-93b8-a14aa15a0b16.jpg?v=1778157311","url":"https:\/\/apocalypsevinyl.com\/products\/brahms-brahms-1-super-audio-cd","provider":"Apocalypse Vinyl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}