The latest addition to the MSO Live Series, ABC Classics proudly presents Brahms’ Piano Concertos No.1 & 2. The only piano concertos Brahms composed are performed sumptuously here by soloist Garrick ...

Daniel Barenboim and Gustavo Dudamel with the Staatskapelle Berlin, performing two great works by Brahms. Two great maestros, with a nearly 40 year age gap, combine forces with the Berlin State ...

It’s hard to think of a better recording of Brahms’ late solo works for piano, even if the two concertos they are packaged with here are less convincing At first sight it seems odd to package Igor ...

Both of Brahms’s piano concertos are gargantuan works. At nearly fifty minutes in duration, this one lasts longer than any other major Romantic piano concerto by quite some stretch. And talking of ...

Towering strength and conviction in the service of the greater glory of Brahms Although Nicholas Angelich’s repertoire ranges far and wide, he has made a speciality in Brahms, music superbly suited to ...

Brahms Piano concertos and solo works Anton Kuerti (piano), Orchestre Metropolitan du Grand Montreal/ Rescigno (Analekta AN 2 9205-7) (3 CDs) £15.99 The filigree details of Brahms's two great piano ...

Time was when Daniel Barenboim tore into Brahms’s “First Piano Concerto” as if he was in an Olympian fury. In this performance he is subdued, pensively rhapsodic, cautious in the face of impending ...

The contrast didn't go as far as ridiculous and sublime, but hearing piano concertos by Leroy Anderson and Johannes Brahms on two successive nights at Miller Outdoor Theatre was certainly a lesson in ...

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. A generation has passed since period instruments took off, but it is still rare to see a piano of the ...

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 Royal Northern Sinfonia Johannes Brahms, Composer Lars Vogt, Conductor, Piano (4) Ballades Lars Vogt, Piano Johannes Brahms For decades it’s been fashionable for ...

The Brahms Piano Concertos are two of the largest and most demanding in the repertoire. This season they will be played on consecutive weeks by Denis Kozhukhin. Richard Bratby tells the story of their ...