🇩🇪Johannes Brahms ： Two Cadenzas for Mozart Piano Concerto K.453 WoO.12

These two cadenzas were written by Brahms for Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 17, K.453, and correspond to the first and final movements. In passages traditionally entrusted to the soloist’s improvisation, Brahms introduces his characteristic weighty harmonic language, contrapuntal writing, and carefully developed structure, while remaining attentive to the concerto’s overall stylistic character. Their appeal lies in the three-dimensional interplay of voices as the music moves forward, and in the way tension builds before returning to the main work. In performance, it is important to keep the inner voices audible, clarify the direction of the melody and harmonic changes, and preserve an improvisatory freedom through articulation that does not become overly heavy.