Having Claude Debussy as your first flute gives the orchestra something of an advantage in the final movement.

I have the deepest respect for the work of Johannes Brahms. So refined and delicately well-crafted, and yet so moving.

I love the way the first movement seems to begin in the middle of a story that has already been going on for years

The Second Movement brings tears.... Not able to express the soulful feeling

I. Allegro non troppo 0:24 A 0:55 B 1:37 C 1:58 D 2:43 E 3:22 F 4:06 G 4:41 H 5:24 I 6:00 K 6:34 L 7:10 M 8:43 N 9:32 O 10:11 P 10:48 Q 11:13 R 11:44 II. Andante moderato 13:00 A 14:27 B 15:48 C 16:49 D 18:56 E 20:21 F 22:21 III. Allegro giocoso 24:38 A 24:58 B 25:22 C 25:41 D 26:06 E 26:33 F 27:22 G 28:47 H 29:31 I 30:04 K 30:24 IV. Allegro energico e passionato 31:01 A 31:45 B 32:12 C 32:39 D 33:22 E 35:18 F 36:58 G 37:34 H 37:58 I 38:36 K 39:02 L 39:27 M 40:06

This is a fine performance of a great symphony. Orozco-Estrada understands Brahms.

The 4th movement is literally a masterpiece. The flute solo, the oboe & clarinet solo, the trombones solo...

Brahms is definitely a fundamental pillar of the classical period. However his symphonies simultaneously transmit a strength and calm that only an extraordinary composer can achieve. This fourth symphony is a wonderful piece of music a true masterpiece, which intervenes moments of deep calm with others of great vigor, just like the life of ourselves. Brahms is an unusual composer of glorious and magnificent music. Viva Brahms and his fabulous music. The orchestra and direction are amazing.Thanks for the fantastic recording.

I love how he gives so much gratitude to the orchestra

Without Brahms and his great performers such as these performers and conductor , our life would have been very lonely and insipid , and the enjoyment and pleasures of the classical music would have been less . From Tokyo of the Land of the Rising Sun 🇯🇵 There is something extraordinary in this splendid performance

Andres Orozco Estrada is simply an amazing conductor.

Thank you, Mr. Andrés Orozco-Estrada

This young conductor never ceases to amaze me!

Cómo no es reggaetonero no es famoso, pero esto es una maravilla... Andrés Orozco de Medellín Colombia parce, dirigiendo verdadera música.

Orchestra does full justice to Brahm's masterful orchestration. I've loved Brahms 4th since I was a young girl. My first record paid for by saving my meagre pocket money. I believe it was Sir Adrian Bolt's glorious interpretation.

Great pride that this excelent conductor be of my country, Colombia.

37:47-40:43 : Perhaps one of the best moments of western classcal music tradition ever produced. Very well interpreted!

Sehr schön. Brahms geht immer. Vor allem die vierte.

The first movement enters into my heart and soul. I remember the first time I listened to Brahms symphony 4; it had me at the first note. Then comes the second movement, and yet again you’re in a hypnotic state. Just brilliant

As I've discovered now that I got some free Airpods, if you don't listen to this orchestra with really good headphones or loudspeakers, you are missing a lot. The orchestral balance is marvelous. I can hear every single part, at just the right volume. The combination of precision and lustrous sound always amazes me. Once again, bravo maestro Orozco-Estrada and Frankfurt Radio Symphony.

Vielen Dank für die tolle Aufnahme hier auf KZfaq, in dieser hochkarätigen musikalischen und technischen Qualität! Danke ☺️

MAGISTRAL interpretación de la Cuarta Sinfonía del compositor alemán del Romanticismo Johannes Brahms por esta importante orquesta dirigida excelentemente por Andrés Orozco-Estrada. BRAVO !!! Saludos desde España.

Huge plaudits to the Frankfurt Radio Sinfonieorchester and maestro Andrés Orozco-Estrada! Beats me how the good citizens of Frankfurt can experience this music without tears of delight and bitter-sweet romantic tragedy cascading down their faces; or springing to their feet from the animating yet austere power of Brahms' romantic-classicism! From bar to bar I have to shout out "that is amazing, who could even imagine writing that!" There is indeed just such a titanic and propulsive power expressed in Brahms goddess-like constructive and analytical skills, in writing this astonishing masterpiece. At one level, it is explicable as a very Latin, very Spanish-Italian descent to repeating complex dance rhythms. But there is a lot more going on. Firstly, part of this propulsiveness is also captured by the observation - often applied to his symphonic writing - that there is no useful distinction between (i) the musical-sensuous-emotional-phenomenological ideas, and (ii) the melodic and harmonic lines and the orchestration used to express the ideas. The orchestral and instrumental expression seems the perfect and inalienable embodiment of these ideas. Secondly, the intoxication - part caressingly sensuous, part eerie and mysterious - that swirls within much of the melody is beyond fascinating. It is like hearing the most profundo discussion of the most extraordinary feelings ever to occur on the planet. Thirdly, especially in the closing recapitulation and coda of the first movement, ones psyche feels as if one has been snatched up like a puppet, and made to advance and gesture and articulate all ones being at the command of something very elemental and irresistible. Indeed, it might be well said that Brahms has given musical form to extremely archetypal and foundational energies plucked by his genius directly from our collective unconsciousness. Hence their controlling ceaseless energy, completely overriding our standard ego-perspectives and our sense of will-power, of free-will and self-direction. Fourthly, as perfectly executed in the slow movement, the endless emergence of heart-warming and heart-breaking romantic and bitter-sweat melodies, to rival anything by Dvorak or Wagner or Debussy (see jokes about the flautist below) is again beyond comprehension. All offered with the deftness, and the gorgeousness of some mistress-divine poetess and impressionist painter and street violinist, their personalities and art all entwined. The melody at 15:50 on richly divided and pizzicato strings across the orchestra with clarinets predominating - OMGoddess - it is something to make Wagner, working on the score of Tristan und Isolde, or the love duet between Brunhild and Siegfried, weep with envy! Only the erotic, sensuous, divine and Olympian psyches of Athena and Aphrodite combined could forge such "tone rows" and such harmonies! This is the voice of the illimitably kind and loving goddesses of all the vastly wiser and more Feminine and womanly ancient world; and also the echoes of our own perfect nurture by our mothers; and our dreams of the same for our own lovers and children. This is perhaps the musical expression of arguably the greatest archetype in all our collective consciousness - infinite engulfing transforming rhapsodic love, shown to everyone and everything. The transcendental explosion of sensuous eroticised ego-dismantling love!! This is what the Buddha and that Rabbi Jesus and Lord Krishna and Kali Ma and Gaia are forever advising us! Indeed, the ability of Brahms to set out such melodies, simultaneously evocative of the deepest adult feelings of adoration and mutual surrender, yet also expressive of the seamless overwhelming love between a mother and her dearest most precious child, is both psychologically daring and yet completely without hint of any Mendelsohnian mawkishness. I hadn't realised before just how much of Brahms ravishing romanticism is partly to be understood as "transfiguring adoration" in counterpoise to "regretful desolation" derived from what is lost forever. In her-his case most notably the death of his truly adored mother. The attempt to resurrect, by the shear power of utterly other-adoring love, what has slipped passed redemption and beyond all recall, from one fingers and into the swallowing and obscuring sands of time. That is such a soul-tearing sensation - "no greater sorrow than to remember happiness in the midst of despair". It is something like standing and embracing ones most beloved soulmate (perhaps tow or three even) before the great figure of the Sphinx as the sun bursts over the Nile Valley, and simultaneously contemplating that the mightiest of Pharaohs are now just dust, as we all shall be ..... to radiate with delighted love, between each other, the supreme "ecstasy of being", in all its present vivacity, and yet to prefigure our termination by ravaging time!! It is a most sobering and maturing state of feeling, but I'm not sure our romantic hearts are built to contain for long that level of rending psychical tension and incongruent emotion! Absolute dispassionate objectivity and absolute furnace radiance of love between ourselves! Brahms conveys all that in this symphony. S/he is without doubt one of the most psychologically and emotionally and philosophically grown-up composers! Clearly the psyche and soul of a genius-woman stand intertwined within that notorious sarcasm and gruff scruffy coffee stained beard! Love andrea

hr 심포니 오케스트라가 현악, 관악파트 모두 브람스의 음악을 최고로 들려주는군요. 언제나 최고입니다.

Thank you first to the conductor and then to Brahms. Bravo!.

The transition from 5:30 to 6:30 is one of the best I've heard. This wonderful Orchestra HR Frankfurt conducted by Maestro Orozco-Estrada is incredibly musical; besides it has a great amount of musicians enough to change them performance to performance. CONGRATULATIONS!!

Excellent!!! Magnifique!!! Ce chef d'orchestre n'est pas aussi connu qu'un Karajan, qu'un Lorin Maazel, qu'importe, il est excellent. Une des meilleures interprétations de la 4ème de Brahms que j'aie pu entendre. Et il fait applaudir ses musiciens à la fin, quelle modestie !! Merci, merci, merci!

Here is an analysys for the piece if you are interested. Johannes Brahms - Symphony № 4, in E minor, 1885 The symphony is the pinnacle of Brahms in the symphonic genre. There is a classic four-part cycle, culminating in the fourth part - Pasakalia. The first part is written in sonata form. It starts right with the main theme, which is brightly sung and excited. It is composed of Brahms' favorite intervals - thirds and sixths, separated by pauses that create a sense of excitement. The theme develops and acquires a dramatic sound in the exhibition. The second theme is also melodic and lyrical, but sounds more passionate and tense in cellos. The transition between these two themes, which is a heroic and appealing motif, contrasts. He plays an important role in the first part and sounds many times as opposed to other topics. The conclusion of the exhibition has a heroic and strong-willed character. The elaboration is dynamic and tense, it starts with the main theme in the main key and there are three waves of rising tension. The motives of the main theme are opposed to the theme-call from the transition. The reprise begins quietly and peacefully. The topics have been changed and thematically enriched. The first part ends with a dramatic code in which the main theme sounds in augmentation, tragic and in a canonical version, the appealing and fanfare intonations of the theme of the transition sound. The code is the culmination of the first part and suggests the tragic outcome of the finale. The second part is in sonata form without elaboration and creates an atmosphere of antiquity and contemplation. The main theme sounds in solo Waldhorns, has romantic elegiac intonations and is in Phrygian style. It develops variationally, reaching a heroic culmination. The second theme is also lyrical, but sounds in cellos. Her brief development flows into the reprise, where both themes vary while maintaining a contemplative mood. The third part is a dynamic scherzo in a complex three-part form, and in parts I and III sonata principles are used. The second part is of the developed type. The main theme of the scherzo is a lively folk dance character. In its development it acquires masculine and heroic features and reminds of the heroic images from Beethoven's symphonies. The second theme is graceful and songful, also with an ethnic basis. The fourth part presents ancient variations of the passocal-type basso ostinato. The main theme of the variations is an 8-bar chorale, borrowed from the cantata of JS Bach. It sounds harsh, tense and threatening in wind instruments, in E minor with IV advanced degree. There are 31 variations and widely developed code. The variations form three groups with different functions. Brahms combines variational and sonata principles of development. The first group of variations is up to X variation incl. and plays the role of exposure. The development reaches a dramatic culmination. The second group is from XI to XV variation and is the lyrical center of the finale. It creates an atmosphere of reflection and peace. The minor key is replaced by a major. Solo wooden wind instruments - flute, clarinet, oboe. The third group of variations (from the 16th to the end) plays the role of development and reprise. Dramatic images, intense development and vivid emotional contrasts return here. The finale ends with a tragic code that expresses the basic idea that death is an integral part of life and cannot be defeated.

Brahms we love you ❤️❤️❤️

Ich höre keinen Applaus aus dem Publikum, du hast einen tollen Applaus von mir, perfekt, perfekte Leistung, Man sieht die Leidenschaft der Musiker , großartig, vielen Dank, meine Seele ist auf Wolke sieben.

Yet another great performance from a great conductor and moreover a great German orchestra. How lucky the residents of Frankfurt are to have an orchestra of this enormous standing and professionalism.

Sublime, bella, desgarradora, tantas emociones..... Perfecta. Brahms un gigante de la música!

Bravo,Maestro. Bravi, orchestra members.

Magisterially conducted, magisterially interpreted. Kudos to everybody. This is just terrific.

Thank you for making this public. I enjoy your videos very much.

An incredibly stylish performance from a wonderful German treasure.

Masterpiece. I do cry when I listen to the last movement . I don't know why. I can feel the innermost fight and tense passion of the composer. The execution nails that. This is my Brahms' favourite symphony...for sure.

Гениальный Брамс, замечательный дирижёр, превосходный оркестр!!! Наслаждение для души!!! Плачу

What a blessing to have this spectacular performance recorded for posterity. Thanks again, and again, Hessische Rundfunk and your magnificent orchestra and conductor.

너무 아름답습니다 좋은 음악 감사합니다♡

Ich wunsche fur Orchester,eine andere Dirigent ware so gut,wie Andres Orosco!!! Unglaublich gut!!!

A stupendous work this 4th symphony by Johannes Brahms. I really liked Orozco-Estrada's interpretation here as well. I seem to remember playing this in a youth orchestra when I was young, about 42 years ago, maybe I was in second violins ( I am a pianist ,but the violin was my second instrument at college). Anyway, I really enjoyed watching this fabulous performance a lot.

Barletta Francesco Roma.Grande orchestra questa di Francoforte diretta da Estrada..Riescono a creare con le note scritte da Brahms un clima irreale da sogno quasi idilliaco. Grazie grazie mille a tutti Ma uno super a Brahms!!!!! Grazie 😊😊😊😊😊😊❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️👍👍👍

Echt feine Aufführung dieser perfekt konstruierten Sinfonie mit seidigen Töne aller Streicher und milden Töne aller Holzbläser. Einfach wunderschön!

The last movement makes me cry, the melody is just too beautiful.

A little while ago I started to watch and listen to the mighty Concertgebouw Orchestra play this symphony under the direction of the renowned Bernard Haitink. This performance is hands-down the better one. The dynamics are more subtle, the integration and balance of the orchestral sound are unmatched. It is as if Orozco-Estrada is playing a single magnificent instrument. I honestly have a difficult time imagining a better performance, even from George Szell and the Cleveland Orchestra when they were among the very best on earth.

At 5:00 I love how they emphasized and express the cello part.

Esta es otra MUY buena interpretacion de la afamada sinfonia del GENIAL Brahms, sobre todo por el buen SONIDO que ayuda a disfrutar adecuadamente las melodias. El estilo del joven director A. Orozco-Estrada es bastante similar al del GRAN maestro Leonard Bernstein...

I know I'm in the minority here, but it is the 2nd movement which I've always found one of the most glorious sections of all Brahms music. Clearly expresses the intense turmoil, the calming peace, as said, the sturm und drang and the final rapture into otherworldliness. This conductor and orchestra are top notch, but it's an old prejudice of miine that no great conductor should need the score in front of him of any of the truly great masterpieces of the classical repetoire, and this is obviosly one of them.

0:24 I. Allegro non troppo 13:00 II. Andante moderato 24:38 III. Allegro giocoso 31:01 IV. Allegro energico e passionato - Più Allegro

One of the best versions I've ever heard, & I've heard many. Love the tempo.

"In the presence of such genius, we must bow our heads in awe." I can't remember who said that about this symphony, but he was correct.

35:19 too beautiful to be true

❤️🎑🎈🎻🎺🎶🎵💡MOLTO BELLO LA MUSICA CLASICA E' VERAMENTE CHE ALZA 🕊️🕊️🕊️ IL SPIRITO UMANO

I LOVE BRAHMS

The only recording I can find where the conductor takes absolutely no ritard at the end of the piece. For some reason not slowing down at all at the end instills a greater emotional reaction in me, although I have no idea why. Perhaps it's because a ritard impedes the forward motion of this tragic, bleak cadence. Anyway, I absolutely love it.

ΟΙ ΣΥΜΦΩΝΙΕΣ BRAHMS ...Η ΜΙΑ ΩΡΑΙΟΤΕΡΗ ΑΠΟ ΤΗΝ ΑΛΛΗ....

amazing. So much passion in this music!

Very good orchestra, I love this Brahms symphony no-4. I see the triangle but not hearing it.

A very good orchestra! I enjoy listening to their performances. Thank you very much!

Marvelous orchestra. Wonderful conductor! Bravo!

La genialidad de Brahms en su máxima obra. Condensa su maestría en esta gigante sinfonía. Grandes músicos y dirección. Gracias por esta oportunidad que nos da este medio.

It still does sound authentic and beautiful.

Superb performance of this masterpiece. ❤️

It is so beautiful played, I really love it ♡

Depois que Orozco-Estrada passou a reger essa orquestra sempre venho aqui conferir se não é dela a melhor performance. Bravo!!!!

It's so good I watched the entire applause...

Magnífico Concierto ! Muchas gracias hr-Sinfonieorchester. Y obviamente me sumo con aplausos.

Una obra inmortal del idem. Brams

0:24 1st movement | 13:05 2nd movement (solemn army trumpet) | 24:41 3rd movement | 31:02 4th movement

Bravi! 😀 🇾🇹

My Favorite Symphonies ...

Подяка Франкфурту за чудовий виступ.

It's perfectly beautiful. Thank you for sharing.

Beautifully played, beautifully conducted...Bravo!

Fel av mej: det är i andra satsen som den underbara melodin kommer!

The mighty Brahms. Yes.

Also, fantastic cinematography - precisely picking the most important sections at any time.

Spent almost an hour hoping it would slow down but still a nice performance of a beautiful piece.

Brahms 4th = Passion + Drama

Viola excerpts 2nd mvt/ 18:57-20:59 3rd mvt/ 24:41-25:04 4th mvt/ 32:13-33:40

I greet you from Germany.

Fantastic performance of a colorful piece.

amazing performance! Great! Thanks for sharing!

Ohmaigad, qué belleza!

Brahms' work is very wonderful ❤️❤️

Maravillosa música, maravillosa interpretación.

favoloso...

Excellent performance !

I love Kleiber's version, but this is wonderful

How can this audience give such an underwhelming response? Orozco-Estrada, you are a light. FRS top stuff.

This is an excellent performance of my very favorite symphony. Orozco-Estrada strikes a perfect balance between the classical and the romantic elements of the score, clean and clear, but expressive and heartfelt. I continue to be impressed by the Frankfurt Radio Symphony as featured on YT, and look forward to hearing more of their uploads. (One slight criticism however, not of the orchestra or conductor, but of the inability to hear the triangle in the third movement - bad microphone placement?)

Obrigado amigos e amigas musicistas!

Extraordinary! Beautiful!

Stumbled upon this orchestra + Andres Estrada performance. Very good performances and this conductor is very high potential as well since he seems to be still in younger side. Flute and Oboe (especially Oboe) players seem to be very good too.

GORGEOUS!

The note that starts @ 21:03 is justtt... No words🙏

wonderful!

He was amazing conductor in houston.. we love him ❤❤❤

¡Bravo!