Shortly 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 concertofinally 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. Henle's piano reduction of this anything-but-little symphonicconcerto presents the solo part as it appe