La Primera de Brahms

Concert by the OBC (Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya) conducted by Ludovic Morlot, featuring Johannes Brahms's Symphony No. 1 and music by Maurice Ravel, at Sala 1 Pau Casals in Barcelona.

La Primera de Brahms is Johannes Brahms's Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68 (Hamburg, 1833 – Vienna, 1897), a German composer of the Romantic era. Brahms worked on it over a long compositional process and premiered it in 1876. Its four-movement structure and its dialogue with Beethoven's symphonic tradition are its most frequently cited features.

The programme also includes music by Maurice Ravel, a French composer born in Ciboure in 1875 and who died in Paris in 1937. A figure of Impressionism alongside Claude Debussy, he combines classical, Spanish and jazz influences in his work. The evening thus allows audiences to hear, in a single concert, German Romantic symphonic repertoire and early twentieth-century French orchestration.

The OBC performs the programme under the baton of Ludovic Morlot in Sala 1 Pau Casals, a venue that hosts concerts and shows in Barcelona.