Lugansky - Brahms, Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor

Johannes Brahms (1833 – 1897) Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15 (1858) Nikolai Lugansky, soloist Alexander Rudin conducting Russian National Youth Symphony Orchestra, March 2022 Moscow Philharmonic Society [0:00] I. Maestoso - Poco più moderato 6:54 - Dev. 11:10 - Recap. 14:30 - Coda 21:38 [23:35] II. Adagio - molto espr 31:30 [36:13] III. Rondo. Allegro non troppo - A2/B2 39:21 - Fugue 41:25 - A3/B3 42:40 - Cadenza 44:27 - Coda 45:50 “Brahms’s piano concertos are two of the greatest pillars of the Romantic repertoire. The first, written in 1858 when the composer was still a young man, is like a symphony where piano and orchestra seem involved at times in a titanic struggle, themes are hurled across the stage with dramatic rhetoric; the second, composed two decades later, feels more like a massive chamber work, where the musical ideas are an exchange rather than a confrontation. If the first is more about proclamation, the second is perhaps more about reception - a speaker versus a listener.