Brahms The Piano Concertos

Brahms The Piano Concertos

  • Overview
  • Cast
  • Crew

Status

Released

Release Date

Dec 11, 1984

Runtime

1h 49m

Genres

Music

Original Title

Brahms The Piano Concertos

Production Companies

Deutsche Grammophon

Director

Humphrey Burton

Budget

$20

Description

Between 1981 and 1984 Leonard Bernstein recorded nearly all of Brahmss orchestral works with the Wiener Philharmoniker to honor the 150th anniversary of the composer's birth in 1983. For the concertos, Bernstein enlisted the services of some of the finest Brahms interpreters of the time: the violoninst Gidon Kremer, the cellist Mischa Maisky and the pianist Krystian Zimerman. Leonard Bernstein, Krystian Zimerman, and the Wiener Philharmoniker, it's very hard to get a better group of musicians for these masterpieces. Mr. Zimerman and Mr. Wolfgang Herzer's piano cello duets in the third movement of Brahms' second is simply tearful.