All this, too, from memory, like another septuagenarian pianist, Idil Biret, when I last saw her. Leonskaja's first act after entering was to remove the music rack - a practical gesture, nothing ...

It's a funny thing about musical taste: you can rationalise all you like, but if something ultimately doesn't touch you, then that's just the way it is. The playing of the great Russian pianist ...

Stephen Johnson compares the first published works of Brahms and Berg, examining how each re-imagined the classical idea of a 'piano sonata'. Show more Stephen Johnson looks at two startling "Opus ...

“It’s like when you have a vision of a huge mountain from far away,” says Nelson Freire about returning to Brahms’s F Minor Piano Sonata after a gap of 50 years. “By getting close you begin to notice ...

For a composer who was so circumspect, who waited until he was over 40 to complete a symphony, and who destroyed so much of the music he wrote, Brahms must have had a big soft spot for his early piano ...

Pianist Barry Douglas gave an intelligent and absorbing account of a meat and potatoes program at the Soka Performing Arts Center on Tuesday night. Big works by Schubert and Brahms anchored the agenda ...

Johannes Brahms was only 50 when, in December 1890, he told his publisher Fritz Simrock that it was "time to stop". The following May he wrote his will. His notions of retiring went famously by the ...

One of the unwitting secrets of Mumbai is that for years it has hosted some of the most intimate masterpieces of chamber music. Gabriele Strata will be in recital on Thursday and in concert with the ...

Described by critics as “fearless,” “miraculous” and “charismatic,” 47-year-old Jean-Yves Thibaudet, who appears in recital today at Benaroya Hall, has been hailed as one of the greatest pianists in ...

German pianist Markus Groh is better known in Europe than in the US, but his name is gaining some momentum. We hear him play a Beethoven Piano Sonata in New York in a few minutes. First, a little ...