Johannes Brahms thought he was embellishing music by Haydn when he devised his "Variations on a Theme by Haydn" for two pianos. History has proved that the theme is by someone else, but that hasn't ...
Johannes Brahms' Variations on a Theme by Haydn are a brilliant example of how to write a set of variations. The Avanti Orchestra plays them in concert at the Porvoo Art Factory in Helsinki, Finland, ...
(Toscanini, NBC Symphony; RCA Victrola VIC-6400). If anything, Brahms benefits even more than Beethoven from a Toscanini tightening-up. This is a four-record album.