With two notes, our hero is struck down, but what would a hero be if he could not persist? Brahms takes the listener through a journey of fate and the existential battle against it as the hero struggles to preserve his own life. Though it contains ideas encompassed by entire symphonies, Brahms writes a score that expresses these same ideas in only the length of a typical movement. Listen as the hero attempts to defy destiny but meets an ultimate doom.

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