Violinist Miriam Fried performed Johannes Brahms' Violin Concerto in D Minor, Op. 77 with conductor Klaus Tennstedt and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. The performance took place in December 1974 at Symphony Hall in Boston, Massachusetts.

Brahms composed his Violin Concerto in 1878 for Hungarian violinist Joseph Joachim, with whom Brahms collaborated extensively on the piece. In the third movement, Brahms paid homage to Joachim's ancestry. Joachim gave the concerto's first public performance in 1879 alongside Brahms himself, who conducted the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. After assessing the successes and disappointments of the first public performance, Brahms made revisions to the score before formally publishing the work as his Op. 77.

Hear Fried's performance of the concerto below:

 

Miriam Fried has made appearances with most major orchestras, including the Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, London, Philadelphia, Vienna, and Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestras and the New York, Royal, and Israel Philharmonic Orchestras. A winner of the Paganini International Competition, Fried was also the first woman to claim top honors in the Queen Elisabeth International Competition. She served as chair of the faculty at the Steans Institute for Young Artists at the Ravinia Festival, and she currently teaches at the New England Conservatory of Music. Her teachers included Isaac Stern, Ivan Galamian, and Josef Gingold.