Disc. 1

1. Piano Concerto No. 1 In D Minor, Op. 15 - (maestoso) 23:27

2. Piano Concerto No. 1 In D Minor, Op. 15 - (adagio) 15:45

3. Piano Concerto No. 1 In D Minor, Op. 15 - (rondo: Allegro Non Troppo)12:08

In September 2003, two musical legends – pianist Krystian Zimerman and Sir Simon Rattle – joined forces for the Berliner Philharmoniker’s season opening series in two unforgettable performances of Brahms’s First Piano Concerto


The concerts both dazzled the audience and delighted critics: “Performing Brahms’s First Piano Concerto together in complete accord and spiritually, in the truest sense of that word, they created the impression of Rattle being seated at some kind of orchestral piano to play four hands with Zimerman. The audience’s acclaim was boundless.” (The Berliner Morgenpost)


Inspired by these sensational live performances, Zimerman and Rattle took their collaboration to the recording studio, where they recreated their concert chemistry for this masterful recording of Brahms’s First Piano Concerto


This new version of Brahms 1 is the only Brahms recording currently available with Krystian Zimerman, whom his compatriot Artur Rubinstein has called a “natural Brahms player”