🎶 Our first concert of the year features Brahms' Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68, which is widely regarded as one of the greatest symphonies of the Austro-German tradition. 🎻 Two factors contributed to Brahms' excruciating progress with this first symphony. First, a perfectionist nature that led him to burn many of his early works and revise finished pieces ad infinitum before pulling the trigger on publishing – it took him almost 20 years to complete, with a premiere on Nov. 4, 1876, in Kar