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Melody without measure

Before Johannes Brahms, most composers enjoyed the short melody -- succinct, concise, to the point. But in his Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D Major, Op.77 and Concerto for Violin, Violoncello and Orchestra in A Minor, Op.102 "Double Concerto", Brahms reveals melodies that are, in best sense of the word, endless. Gradually unraveling them before our very ears like some ball of yarn, Brahms keeps the listener hanging on a thread until his theme comes to a magnificent close. Eugene Ormandy conducted the Philadelphia Orchestra for these recordings, which feature Isaac Stern's violin and Leonard Rose on violoncello.

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