Article: Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1; Variations on a Theme of Schumann. (Andras Schiff, Georg Solti, Wiener Philharmoniker)

Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1

* The films make certain pieces of music so familiar that we cease to hear them. So Hollywood has deprived us of Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, and Brahms. But with main effort I have been listening to the Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1, driving out of consciousness the flickering shadows of movie sensibility. This work, along with the Variations on a Theme of Schumann, was the young Brahms's memorial to a musician he idolized and whose attempted suicide and death in a sanitarium cut so deeply into Brahms's psyche. ...

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