André Watts Performs Brahms
Historic Performances • 29-Oct-1977
The great André Watts joins the Philharmonic in 1977 to perform Brahms’s Second Piano Concerto. Brahms jokingly called this a “tiny little” concerto for piano and orchestra, despite its being one of the largest ever written. The legendary Erich Leinsdorf conducts.
BRAHMS (1833–97)
Concerto No. 2 in B-flat major for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 83 (1878–81)
1. Allegro non troppo
2. Allegro appassionato
3. Andante
4. Allegro grazioso
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