CD reviews: Fischer pulls out tragic stops in Brahms Fourth

For a week after this recording of the Brahms Fourth arrived, I had to limit myself to listening to one movement per day. It's my favorite Brahms symphony, a companion, you might say, since early adolescence. Creature of habit, I usually alternate between favorite recordings by Weingartner, Furtwängler or Szell. If these three very different conductors, with their respective British, German and American orchestras, have anything in common it might be their representation of an august, autumnal ...