Bob Draper wrote:

>Scott Morrison wrote:
>
>>The Brahms First Piano Concerto.  What a lovely work otherwise.  But that
>>opening is so, er, crass.
>
>No way.  This is one of the greatest openings in music.  It like a sudden
>storm followed by a period of calm with occassional rumbles.

Well, if you like the stormy opening of the Brahms First Piano Concerto
(and I do too), you might want to give a listen to the first movement of
the Piano Concerto No.  24 in c minor by M_z_rt, to which I used to think
the Brahms opening similar.

Walter Meyer