Darkness hangs over a fluid and distinctively emotional take on a dozen introspective works ...

Johannes Brahms can be forgiven for taking, by some accounts, anywhere from 14 to 21 years to complete his First Symphony. It was expected that he would follow in the mighty footsteps of that other ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The ageing process was not kind to Brahms. As a young adult he still looked juvenile but, by the time he ...

It's encouraging to see a young star pianist like Barry Douglas turning to chamber music so early in his career. If the Piano Quintet does seem to strain at the limits of the medium from time to time, ...

With large gestures, the tall, slim Guggeis led the San Diego musicians in a memorable concert featuring the 64-year-old ...

Much of Brahms's piano music, with its galloping rhythms and urgent melodic figures, can be called "demonic", the word his friend Schumann used to describe the younger composer's Ballade in B minor Op ...

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 ...

Few piano concertos speak as cogently as the two that came from Brahms’ pen. Though vastly different in character, together they represent a pinnacle of 19th century pianism. True, each lies awkwardly ...

LENOX — For the first of his series of Tanglewood recitals surveying the solo piano music of Johannes Brahms, the Bavarian pianist Gerhard Oppitz programmed the composer’s earliest published piano ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Recordings of Brahms, Haydn, Grieg, Nikolai Kapustin and George Walker are among recent highlights. Frank Dupree, piano; Jakob Krupp, bass; Obi Jenne, ...

Pianist Michelle Cann will perform Clara Schumann's first and only piano concerto with the Arkansas Symphony and conductor Geoffrey Robson this weekend at Little Rock's Robinson Center Performance ...

This disc was recorded in Bolzano in December 1992. The sound is firm and immediate, if a bit strident at the top, and Bonatta clearly has a feeling for the scope and depth of the music as well as the ...