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Brahms: Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98
The Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Eugene Ormandy

Recorded November 19, 1944, in the Academy of Music, Philadelphia, on Columbia 78-rpm matrices XCO 33832 through XCO 33841. Issued in the spring of 1945 as Columbia Masterworks Set M-567 (records 12084-D through 12088-D), and in automatic sequence as Set MM-567 (records 12089-D through 12093-D).

Brahms' Fourth Symphony is in four movements:

1. Allegro non troppo
2. Andante moderato (at 11:49)
3. Allegro giocoso (at 23:05)
4. Allegro energico e passionato (at 28:52)

This, and the Beethoven Seventh Symphony recorded on the same day, were the first issued recordings made by the Philadelphia Orchestra for Columbia, the orchestra having been coaxed away from Victor (with whom it had been recording since 1917) during the Petrillo recording ban of 1942-44. The orchestra would return to RCA Victor in 1968.