Classical Hour: Francesco Piemontesi performs Brahms's First Piano Concerto

A young Brahms wrote his first piano concerto in the shadow of a personal tragedy. The work took shape in the years surrounding Robert Schumann's attempted suicide and death, and bears the marks of the young composer's grief and inner turmoil. When Francesco Piemontesi and Manfred Honeck perform the Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, we encounter a work that marked Brahms's breakthrough as an orchestral composer.