Piano Concerto No. 2

by Johannes Brahms

Piano Concerto No. 2 cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1945
  • Label: Columbia Masterworks
  • Country: Germany
  • Length: 48:04
  • Community rating: 3.2/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Tackling one of the most notoriously demanding and symphonically integrated concertos in the classical repertoire, this recording demands profound stamina and emotional depth. The performance navigates the composer's dense, heavily textured romanticism, balancing fierce technical challenges with sweeping, lyrical introspection. It serves as a formidable historical benchmark for mid-century bravura pianism.

Genres

Tracklist

  1. First Movement: Allegro Non Troppo (Beginning)
  2. First Movement: Allegro Non Troppo (Continuation)
  3. First Movement: Allegro Non Troppo (Continuation)
  4. First Movement: Allegro Non Troppo (Conclusion)
  5. Second Movement: Allegro Appassionata (Beginning)
  6. Second Movement: Allegro Appassionato (Conclusion)
  7. Third Movement: Andante (Beginning)
  8. Third Movement: Andante (Continuation)
  9. Third Movement: Andante (Conclusion)
  10. Fourth Movement: Allegretto Grazioso (Beginning)
  11. Fourth Movement: Allegretto Grazioso (continuation)
  12. Fourth Movement: Allegretto Grazioso (Conclusion)

Credits

  • Rudolf Serkin - primary artist
  • The Philadelphia Orchestra - primary artist
  • Eugene Ormandy - primary artist
  • Johannes Brahms - primary artist, composed by
  • Alex Steinweiss - cover

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