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Essential Brahms
Brahms in twelve works, from the First Piano Concerto to the last of his piano pieces.
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Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15
This guide follows Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15 (1858) in three parts: Maestoso (sonata form), Adagio (ternary form) and Rondo: Allegro non troppo (rondo).
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in D minor, on a huge scale. The orchestra alone presents the stormy first , a , a lyrical and a , or passage. The piano then enters with a quiet new melody rather than the opening , and the , and third are heard again with the piano. Then come the , the and the . There is no .
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Section boundaries in music are not always sharp; a transition may be felt over a pause or a held chord.
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