Yefim Bronfman plays Brahms’ 2nd Piano Concerto with the San Francisco Symphony
Brahms and Schumann had a special relationship, hence the programming of their works on the same concert....two classics of their time.
Brahms and Schumann had a special relationship, hence the programming of their works on the same concert....two classics of their time.
To Sibelius, Mahler expressed the belief that "The symphony must be like the world. It must embrace everything."*
"A player of uncommon sensitivity" - Alex Ross, in "The New Yorker" describing pianist Inon Barnatan
Martha Argerich has received numerous distinctions, including the French Government’s “Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et Lettres”....she joins the LA Phil. in Schumann's only Piano Concerto, still a standard of the concerto repertoire.
Schumann's 2nd is one of those works with a slight numbering confusion, as it was the third symphony completed; the first was an early version of what became the 4th Symphony, the second was published as the Symphony No. 1.