Brahms: Piano Concerto no 2 in B Flat Op 83Shortly after a rather unsuccessful performance of his Piano Concerto no. 1, Johannes Brahms wrote to Joseph Joachim in 1859: a second one will sound different. Nevertheless, a good 20 years elapsed before that second concerto finally took form, and only in 1881 was he able to announce: I wanted to tell you that I have written a very small piano concerto with a tiny little delicate Scherzo. Our piano reduction of this anything but little symphonic