BPO’s Brahms Program Has Some Exciting Surprises
There is big, solid Brahms this weekend at Kleinhans Music Hall. The Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, led by colorful guest conductor Bruno Ferrandis, is playing Arnold Schoenberg’s orchestration of Brahms’ Piano Quartet, Op. 25. The other half of the concert is the Second Piano Concerto, with Norman Krieger at the keyboard.
The quartet arrangement is supposed to come first, and the concerto second. But Saturday, the order was switched. I didn’t think the new order would make sense. I thought that the piano concerto would be what you wanted to go out into the night with. But it ended up that the Schoenberg/Brahms creation was the climax.
Not that the concerto was not lovely. It was. What a slow movement this concerto has — delirious, you could almost say. The last movement is all but designed to bring an audience to its feet. It is a massive, muscular concerto, great for the BPO with its horns and trombones. It is thrilling. Full News