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SHALL WE DANCE, BRAHMS?“For a decade, whether alone or with Johannes or with Joseph, Clara often ends her concerts with a bouquet of these irresistible Hungarian Dances, fiery or languorous…

*”Brigitte François-Sappey This concert focuses on Johannes Brahms, and more particularly on his Third Symphony and his Hungarian Dances. The German composer was past forty when he wrote his four symphonies (1876–1885) in a little over a decade.

, shot in 1960s Paris, starring Ingrid Bergman, Anthony Perkins and Yves Montand. Composed in Wiesbaden, it was premiered in Vienna on 2 December 1883 by Hans Richter. The conductor immediately gave it the nickname “Heroic”, as a tribute to Ludwig van Beethoven.

As for the Hungarian Dances, published by Simrock at the very end of the 1860s, they carry no opus number, because Johannes Brahms did not claim authority over them, considering himself rather an arranger of themes he had collected from the Hungarian violinist Ede Reményi.

Meanwhile, in Prague, Antonín Dvoøák had made a name for himself in the 1870s with the performance of a hymn that earned him a post as organist and professor at the Conservatory. ** Musical direction Thomas Hengelbrock Orchestre de Chambre de Paris Johannes Brahms Symphony No.

3 in F major, Op. 90 Antonín Dvoøák Slavonic Dances, Op. 46 and 72 (excerpts) Johannes Brahms Hungarian Dances, op. deest (excerpts)