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Beethoven and Brahms. Even though the latter attempted to be treated separately from the first, music history often puts the two grim German bachelors and monumentally thinking pianist-composers side by side. Their compositions will be juxtaposed also this evening. Beethoven’s Piano Concerto in C minor is the harmony of opposites. The stern first and third movements are connected by the slow middle movement in E major, which is so intimate that even Romantic composers could proudly call it their own. It evokes the composer’s will written in Heilgenstadt, which articulated the gaps between his tragic fate, his desire to create, his exclusion from society and his longing for intimacy. The evening’s programme is closed with another grandiose piece: Brahms’ Symphony No. 1 which the composer worked on with great care for over 20 years to bring his symphonic style to perfection. Even though the composition projects Bruckner’s symphonies, contemporary reviews mocked it as Beethoven’s 10th symphony. Today, however, this question is often seen quite differently…