Brahms composed his first piano concerto in 1858, and premiered the work in Hannover the following year. Although nowadays Brahms is often remembered for his full-blooded, large-scale works, at the ...

Is Brahms’s music classical or romantic? Paul Lewis is clear-headed about the answer. His playing in Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1 disdains romantic heroics in favour of poise and proportion, fine ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Brahms’s B major Trio offers both an early and late word from the composer. This article contains ...

Brahms's piano concertos are two of the greatest pillars of the Romantic repertoire. The first, written in 1858 when the composer was still a young man, is like a symphony where piano and orchestra ...

Today's composers would love to discover the elusive formula for artistic permanence. But it was probably always so. Even German composer Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) did not instantly achieve the ...

The Brahms Piano Concertos are two of the largest and most demanding in the repertoire. This season they will be played on consecutive weeks by Denis Kozhukhin. Richard Bratby tells the story of their ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Early in his career, Andras Schiff disdained historical authenticity. Now he embraces it, including on a revelatory new Brahms recording. By David ...

Aimez-vous Brahms? Some love Brahms, often for the passion. Others can’t stomach the man’s thick-textured, thickly harmonic, tradition-thick music. LA Weekly music critic Alan Rich led the legions of ...

So do the three piano sonatas in question. They make complete nonsense of the artificial opposition stoked by 19th century pundits between Brahms the supposed conservative and Liszt the progressive, ...

Founded in 2014, the Berlin Piano Quartet brings together three leading string players from the Berlin Philharmonic and French pianist Kim Barbier. Is it surprising their performances borrow some of ...

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