Academic Festival Overture
Aug. 16th, 2013 05:19 pmThere is nothing that is not delightful about Johannes Brahms' Academic Festival Overture: its characteristic use of theme of variations; its deceptively casual structure; it's brilliant orchestration; its cheeky sense of humour — most of themes are student drinking songs — and approachability. Here's Bernstein and the Vienna Phil doing justice to a brief masterpiece.