Pianist extraordinaire Murray Perahia, who once seemed obsessed with the music of Bach, returns for the first time in 20 years to the music of Johannes Brahms in a recording that’s sure to spark ...

Murray Perahia’s Brahms is outstanding in every way. He has the elegance to showcase the baroque inspiration of the Handel Variations, but also the sense of scale and architecture to encompass ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The sixth concert of this year's ChamberFest Cleveland season, "Forging New Paths," presented an odd mixture of musical styles, with contrasting works by Handel, Gyorgy Ligeti, and ...

Theme and variation form is one of the most elementary and primitive forms of musical construction. Its limitation for the composer is that he or she must work with a predetermined module that keeps ...

The pervasive image of Johannes Brahms as a stout, grandfatherly figure ambling through forests strewn with autumn leaves has softened and distorted even music he wrote as a young man. But not here.

Perahia brings his customary mastery to piano works by Brahms, a composer he is not usually associated with but whose blend of lyricism and rigour suits his gifts perfectly. The disc opens with the ...

The young Swiss-Italian Francesco Piemontesi combines communicative panache with remarkable insight. He prefaces a virile, sensitive performance of Brahms’s Handel Variations with a stylistically ...

Miami City Ballet dancers in Brahms/Handel, with choreography by Jerome Robbins and Twyla Tharp. ALEXANDER IZILIAEV Sparkling invention will come with exclusivity when Miami City Ballet stages ...