Piano Concerto no. 1

Album by Johannes Brahms & Peter Serkin & Robert Shaw & Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15, is a piano concerto by Johannes Brahms, completed in 1858 and first performed in 1859. It is in a Romantic orchestral style with substantial, symphonic scoring and demanding piano writing, the music has dramatic, forceful passages alongside a lyrical slow movement, and it was an early large-scale work that pointed to Brahms's later symphonic approach.