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Yefim Bronfman says he never wants the audience to think that Brahms’s Second Piano Concerto sounds difficult…although it is very challenging for the solo pianist. He performs the work with Maestro Muti, who also leads a symphony by Tchaikovsky and a Beethoven overture. Extended interviews with Bronfman about working with Maestro Muti, how composers such as Brahms dealt with the shadow of Beethoven, and the technical demands made on pianists in works by Beethoven, Brahms, and Ravel may be found below.
Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2
Yefim Bronfman, piano
Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 1 (Winter Daydreams)
Originally recorded at concerts on Jan. 15, 16 and 17, 2015
Beethoven Overture to The Consecration of the House
Originally recorded at concerts on April 25, 26 and 27, 2013
Program notes for the Brahms and Tchaikovsky works may be read here, and those for Beethoven’s Consecration of the House Overture can be found here.
Yefim Bronfman, piano
Riccardo Muti, Zell Music Director and Conductor
