London Philharmonic Orchestra - Brighton Dome

Saturday 13 March 2010 | 7.30pm
Concert Hall, Brighton Dome

RAVEL Suite, Mother Goose
SCHUMANN Piano Concerto
BRAHMS Symphony 2

GUNTHER HERBIG conductor
HELENE GRIMAUD piano

It was Schumann's unflinching adoration for his pianist wife Clara that spawned the Piano Concerto, a love-letter in music that offers a touching insight into one of the most famously passionate romances of the nineteenth century. But Schumann also took the young Johannes Brahms very much to heart, who he said would 'spring like Minerva from the head of Jove' to take the compositional world by storme. He was only partly right; the First Symphony heard on 12 December took Brahms a painstaking fourteen years to write. But the Second did indeed spring forth like Minerva, flowing as seamlessly as a stream, abounding in pure, exhilarating joy.

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