Just listening to CD review and Brahms 1st Piano Concerto. This is my favourite post Beethoven 19th century piano concerto (Brahms 2cnd is too middle aged). I've heard that even Britten (a notorious dis-liker of Brahms) liked it.
It has a great monumental first movement, one of the greatest slow movements in all of Brahms and a slightly underwhelming finale. The second concerto is the greater work.
I love Gilels/Jochum but there are many great performances...
It has a great monumental first movement, one of the greatest slow movements in all of Brahms and a slightly underwhelming finale. The second concerto is the greater work.
I love Gilels/Jochum but there are many great performances...
These are both incredible piano concertos. I love each equally. Only Rachmaninoff's 2nd and 3rd put me in a higher realm of joy. I am a hopeless Romantic. Brahms' 1st is so powerful and heroic, his 2nd more contemplative. Both the second movement Adagio of PC1 and the third movement Andante of the PC2 are such lyrical gems. The excitement of the third movement Rondo/Allegro Non Troppo of PC1 proves to be a more invigorating finish than the fourth movement Allegro Grazioso of PC2. If I had to choose only one, I would feel dreadfully cheated. They are both towering examples of the piano concerto repertoire. I just can't choose.
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