Post number 32 in my cd collection series.

I've never been quite as captivated by Brahms as I have been by some of the other great composers, though I did write once after hearing the Omaha Symphony perform his "Concerto No. 2 in B-flat Major for Piano and Orchestra" with Andrew von Oeyen on piano and my friend Paul Ledwon on cello that the third movement "sounded like the piano and the cello were making love."  But I don't own a copy of Concerto No. 2.

We do own The Complete Symphonies.  So, on occasion I get to listen to the melancholy, moving third movement of the 3rd Symphony, the poco allegretto: