«You have no idea how someone of our kind feels when he constantly hears such a giant marching behind him»: The giant whose steps thundered at Johannes Brahms’s back was called Ludwig van Beethoven. But Brahms proved worthy of his role model: in his expansive but essentially lyrical Second Piano Concerto, he again combined the symphonic principle with the concertante principle with great self-assurance. And when it comes to comparisons with role models, the young Chinese pianist Tianxu An has nothing to worry about. Afterwards, Yutaka Sado and the Tonkunstler unleash the thrilling firework display of Beethoven’s Seventh: in this work, the giant dances.