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When Johannes Brahms died on Saturday April 3rd 1897, barely five weeks before what would have been his 64th birthday, Leopold Stokowski, then a student at London’s Royal College of Music and who lived to be 95, was a fortnight away from his own 15th birthday celebrations. More than twenty musicians who knew Brahms personally went on to record his music well into the twentieth century. Amongst this legacy, it is a fascinating undertaking to study the recordings of those conductors who knew the composer individually, who formed part of his circle, and later recorded Brahms’s orchestral music.
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