Episode 20: The NAC Orchestra and Brahmss final symphonies
b'The third of the 2010-11 season\'s "Explore the Symphony" podcasts examines the 3rd and 4th Symphonies of Johannes Brahms. In this podcast, the NAC Orchestra\'s assistant principal double bass Marjolaine Fournier and one of Canada\'s foremost music journalists, Jean-Jacques van Vlasselaer, discuss Symphony No. 3, which was written in 1883, polished after each performance, and published the following year. Music critic Eduard Hanslick said \\u201c \\u2026 the Third [Symphony] strikes me as being artistically the most nearly perfect.\\u201d The NAC Orchestra (under conductor Andrew Grams) performed Symphony No. 3 by Brahms in late October of this year. Still to come \\u2013 on January 26 and 27 \\u2013 is Brahms\\u2019s Symphony No. 4, with Pinchas Zukerman conducting the Orchestra. Brahms composed this deeply emotional symphony \\u2013 his final symphony -- right after the Third, in 1885. Dramatic and passionate, mournful and joyful, the Fourth Symphony was conducted by Brahms himself at its premiere. It was very well received and has remained popular ever since.'