Stephen Kovacevich's new EMI recording of Brahms's D minor Piano Concerto with the LPO under Wolfgang Sawallisch strikes me as being an altogether exceptional account of this leonine, beautiful, but ...

Richard Osborne described this Zimerman/Bernstein account of Brahm's First Concerto as ''narcissistic, so intolerably self-regarding'' although he also found the performance ''overflowing with ...

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 ...

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In 1976, I got a record I wore the grooves off. It was of the Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor. The pianist was Artur Rubinstein, and the conductor was Zubin Mehta, leading the Israel ...

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 ...

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