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, ...

Right at the end of my conversation with Alexandre Kantorow, I happen to ask him what else he is putting on his recording with Brahms’s Sonata No 2 in F sharp minor. Just as well, because his answer ...

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 ...