Brahms: Symphony No. 1 / Beethoven: Egmont Overture

1	Egmont, incidental music,
2	Symphony No. 1 in C minor
3	Symphony No. 1 in C minor
4	Symphony No. 1 in C minor
5	Symphony No. 1 in C minor
Brahms: Symphony No. 1 / Beethoven: Egmont Overture
1.	Egmont, incidental music, Op. 84: Ouvertüre 9:09
	Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven
	Performed by Munich Philharmonic Orchestra
	Conducted by Christian Thielemann
2.	Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68 51:33
	Composed by Johannes Brahms
	Performed by Munich Philharmonic Orchestra
	Conducted by Christian Thielemann

New York Times

An exciting addition to the catalog.... The Munich Philharmonic sounds terrific. The playing is vibrant, secure and sonorous.... The symphony seems at once more lucid than in many performances yet volatile, menacing and triumphant. Anthony Tommasini

Gramophone

This Thielemann performance [of the "Egmont" Overture] is exceptional.... The Brahms is even more unashamedly "old school," painted from a full, dark palette of sound colours, richly applied and finely blended after the manner of the great colourists of the past. Richard Osborne

BBC Music Magazine

Opulently recorded, involving performances.... Every bar is carefully nuanced, the orchestra responding quite splendidly. Erik Levi

Daily Telegraph

The performance proves that, even in a world changed for ever by the period-instrument movement, there is a place for this grandiose and assertive kind of music-making. Matthew Rye