Barry Douglas is an outstanding Brahms interpreter, yet this first volume of his planned survey of the complete piano works is disconcerting. It brings together pieces from almost all periods of ...

It was Clara Schumann who characterised the first of the Op 119 Piano Pieces as "grey, pearl-veiled and very precious", which could stand as a description of so much of Brahms' late piano music. But ...

Adam Laloum takes seriously the maestoso directive in the first movement of Brahms’s F minor Sonata, bringing a granitic yet fluent continuity to the bulbous chords and thorny octave passages. This is ...

In the booklet Elena Fischer-Dieskau’s biography coyly says she was ‘born into a family of musicians’, which hardly sums up the fact that her grandfather was one of the greatest singers of the 20th ...

In 1878, Brahms decided to return to a form he hadn't touched in over a decade — piano miniatures. We'll hear the result. Kirill Gerstein (keer-IL GER-steyen) perform four of the Eight Piano Pieces ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by By Anthony Tommasini “BRAHMS THE PROGRESSIVE” is the title of an insightful essay that Schoenberg first presented as a radio talk in 1933 in honor of ...

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 ...