New York Phil's Rush Hour Series: Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 1
Avery Fisher Hall, at Lincoln Center (132 W 65th Street New York, NY 10023)
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Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Piano Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 15 (1854-58)
The First Piano Concerto is a remarkable work from a young man who started out on his musical career as a piano player in the dives and taverns of Hamburg’s harbor. Its evolution was complex and its gestation long, due in part to Brahms’s self-critical nature and to the high expectations he would have to live up to in order to meet Robert Schumann’s prophecy about the then-just-20-year-old composer: He would “reveal his mastery not by gradual development but would spring, like Minerva, fully armed, from the head of Jove.”
Brahms revised the concerto even after its premiere in 1859. The concerto is symphonic in scope, lasting around 45 minutes. The rolling thunder of the timpani marks the concerto’s long and stormy orchestral introduction, whose mood, according to Joachim, was colored by events in Schumann’s life — his attempted suicide in 1854 and subsequent confinement in an asylum until his death two years later. The peaceful Adagio comes as blessed relief (“I am also painting a lovely portrait of you; it is to be the Adagio,” the composer wrote to Clara Schumann, Robert’s wife and Brahms’ platonic love). The Rondo finale with its two huge cadenzas brings this powerful and massively difficult work to a rousing conclusion.
In his book on Brahms, Burnett James wrote: “The D Minor Concerto is a direct and authentic transcript of Brahms’s deepest and most tortured experiences at the time of its production. It also marks the end of Brahms’s youthful romantic period. Never again was he to let himself go with such uninhibited passion; never again to wear his heart so unashamedly on his sleeve….”
About the Guest Artist
Pianist Radu Lupu is widely acknowledged as a leading interpreter of the works of Beethoven, Brahms, Mozart and Schubert. Since winning the prestigious Van Cliburn (1966) and Leeds Piano Competitions (1969), Mr. Lupu has regularly performed as soloist and recitalist in the musical capitals and major festivals of Europe and the U.S. He has appeared many times with the Berlin Philharmonic since his debut with that orchestra at the l978 Salzburg Festival under Herbert von Karajan, and with the Vienna Philharmonic, including the opening concert of the 1986 Salzburg Festival led by Riccardo Muti. He is also a frequent visitor to Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw and all of the major London orchestras.
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Since its inception, the Orchestra has championed the new music of its time, giving the first performances of many important works such as Dvorak's Symphony No. 9, "From the New World"; Rachmaninoff 's Piano Concerto No. 3; Gershwin's Concerto in F; and Copland's Connotations, in addition to the U.S. premieres of works such as Beethoven's Symphonies Nos. 8 and 9, and Brahms's Symphony No. 4. This pioneering tradition has continued to the present day, with works of major contemporary composers regularly scheduled each season. John Adams's On the Transmigration of Souls, written in memory of September 11, 2001, and commissioned by the New York Philharmonic with Lincoln Center's Great Performers, received the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Music; a CD of the work, performed in concert by the Orchestra in 2002, was released on Nonesuch in August 2004, and garnered three Grammy awards.
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