BRAHMS - Rhapsody Op. 79 no. 2

Brahms usually has very strict forms for his music. He was once misunderstood, considered too academic for a romantic composer. This Rhapsody is an ALLEGRO DE SONATA. Create mood contrast between those two initial themes, but avoid changing tempo. Building architecture climax is more important than occasional non-sense expressiveness. Those triplets build coherence for the whole piece. They are an ostinato, they must sound as such in order to garantee that the big line of the music sound in its entirety. And never accelerate in the left hand octaves passage after the fermata from first theme. EVER!