Content
- 1. Allegro non troppo
- 2. Allegro appassionato
- 3. Andante
- 4. Allegretto grazioso
two copies necessary for performance
Johannes Brahms enjoyed a bit of understatement every now and then, and whenever his second piano concerto was the object of discussion, he called it his “little” concerto – although it was more than clear that, with its four movements (including Scherzo), he was giving his contemporaries something truly symphonic to chew on. The press didn't hesitate long: soon it was being derisively called “piano symphony,” which, however, did nothing to prevent its popularity. Brahms himself and other pianists played the work everywhere in the 1880s, and the piano reduction was so successful that it had to be reprinted three times within three months after its first printing.
The Urtext edition follows the text of the respective volume in the Brahms Complete Edition published in 2013. It takes the first printing of the score as the main source; moreover, both the autograph as well as the printed reduction provided further information with which engraving errors of the first edition could be corrected.
Urtext based on the new Complete Edition (G. Henle Verlag)
for: Piano, orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 663104
for: Piano, orchestra
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 648744
Complete Edition with critical report
clothbound, Serie I, Band 8
for: Piano, orchestra
Score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 693984
Urtext based on the new Complete Edition (G. Henle Verlag)
for: Piano, orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 663283
Urtext based on the new Complete Edition (G. Henle Verlag)
for: Piano, orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 663277
Urtext based on the new Complete Edition (G. Henle Verlag)
for: Piano, orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 663281
Urtext based on the new Complete Edition (G. Henle Verlag)
for: Piano, orchestra
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 663274
Urtext based on the new Complete Edition (G. Henle Verlag)
for: Piano, orchestra
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 663278
Urtext based on the new Complete Edition (G. Henle Verlag)
for: Piano, orchestra
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 663288
Veröffentlichungen der Johannes Brahms-Gesellschaft
Book (softcover)
Item no.: 675142