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Brahms – Piano Concerto No. 1
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Johannes Brahms –
Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor,
Op. 15

00:00 I. Maestoso
24:06 II. Adagio
38:45 III. Rondo

Hélène Grimaud, piano,
Southwest German Radio Symphony
Orchestra | SWR

Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden
und Freiburg, Michael Gielen,
17.IV.2005.

Johannes Brahms was
20 years old when, in 1853,
he first made the acquaintance of
Robert Schumann through a letter of
recommendation provided
by the famous violinist
Joseph Joachim.

It was Schumann’s
unabashed praise of the music
that Brahms showed him that,
more than anything else, provided
the young composer with the courage
necessary to begin work on
a full-scale symphony
the next year.

That courage,
however, fell short in the end —

Brahms felt
himself too inexperienced
and was too haunted by the“footsteps
of a giant” (Beethoven)
to begin fruitful
symphonic work —

and Brahms
reorganized the material
he had written as a sonata
for two pianos.

By 1858,
this sonata for two pianos
had itself been reborn as
the Piano Concerto No. 1
in D minor, Op. 15.