Talk:Symphony No. 4 (Brahms)

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[edit] Chaconne or Passacaglia

Both the chaconne and passacaglia articles 'claim' the final movement as one. The article says it's the later with Brahms claiming the former...but I've always read it as being a chaconne, and it seems to fit that better (chord prograssion vs bass line). ♫ Melodia Chaconne ♫ 12:25, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

I've changed the article to say that it is a chaconne, but there are references to it as a passacaglia, such as the programme notes linked to.

--Atavi 17:34, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Description

'Lushly romantic'... is it? not in the version I grew up with ! (On big black vinyl disk - Which alas I can't now find). It's the most gritty of the Brahms symphonies I recollect, tinged with an older man's tragedy. And do either of these descriptions belong in an encyclopeadia used by many people for whom lush (or gritty) is not a word of choice. Bob aka Linuxlad 20:56, 7 June 2007 (UTC)