Piano Duo: Brahms Waltzes

Two pianists, one keyboard, four hands. Brahms wrote his sixteen waltzes Op. 39 for exactly this: a Viennese parlour on a winter evening, friends crowded round the piano, the lamps just lit.

The Wiedner Klaviersalon is a piano workshop by day, a few steps from the Naschmarkt, with instruments in various states of undress along the walls. On Sunday evenings the best of them is wheeled to the centre and seventy chairs are set out around it. The duo play the waltzes as a single arc, then the Hungarian Dances, then a Schubert fantasy that is far sadder than anything before it.

An early start, so you can go on to dinner. Tea, coffee and Gugelhupf from 4:30 pm.