Brahm’s Piano Concerto No. 2

The Florida Orchestra tackles a program anchored by the immense technical demands of Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 2. Staged at the Mahaffey Theater, the Masterworks concert highlights a piece famous for its symphonic scale and the sheer endurance it requires from the soloist, featuring four movements instead of the traditional three. The evening also features Beethoven’s dramatic Egmont incidental music, setting a serious, heroic tone that perfectly complements the rich, dense German romanticism of the Brahms concerto that follows.