Work: Piano Concerto no. 2 in B flat major, Op.83

Marc-André Hamelin's Brahms and Gershwin encores bring down the house at the Esplanade Concert Hall.

Late Brahms, early Schoenberg: under Lahav Shani and the Rotterdam Philharmonic draw tenderness from two monumental scores. 

Jonathan Nott and the OSR bring surgical precision to Debussy’s vivid sketches, while Khatia Buniatishvili’s Brahms evokes the soulful, improvisational warmth of a pre-war piano legend at the Elbphilharmonie.