London Philharmonic Orchestra
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BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto 5 BRAHMS Symphony 1 JUKKA-PEKKA SARASTE conductor LLYR WILLIAMS piano Johannes Brahms had a habit of making promises that he found pretty hard to keep. Chief amongst them was his declaration in 1872 that he'd 'never write a symphony.' Sure enough, and despite the thuds of Beethoven's epoch-making footsteps still ringing in his ears, Brahms eventually proved himself spectacularly wrong. When the composer's First Symphony finally arrived, it certainly made an entrance - launching mid-sentence with a turbulent, energetic face-off between pounding drums, defiantly climbing strings and ominously plunging woodwinds. Like Beethoven before him, Brahm's genius was shaking the very ground beneath him, and this was just the start.
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