At the end of March the Nottingham Philharmonic performed all four Brahms symphonies in a weekend, nos. 1&2 on Saturday evening and nos. 3&4 on Sunday afternoon. We used the new Henle urtext editions prepared by preeminent Brahms scholar Professor Robert Pascall, who was at both concerts and gave associated pre-concert talks. As well as almost certainly being the first complete cycle given with the new parts, Professor Pascall said he had never experienced all four symphonies played within a two day period.
Read the review from the Nottingham Evening Post here.
Post Brahms with Professor Robert Pascall
“Mark Heron clearly loves Brahms and all four symphonies demonstrated his ability to mould detail into huge architectural designs.”