Over gentle, hypnotic piano chords, the violin breathes a singing line of dreamlike beauty: the opening of Brahms's first violin sonata is one of the great moments in music, masterfully recreated here ...

Whenever the topic of violin sonatas arises, there is no escaping discussion of the three big works in this form by Brahms. Indeed, it is arguable, at least, that these three – in G major, A major and ...

Garrick Ohlsson’s previous Hyperion Brahms disc (1/19) provoked much the same reaction in me as it did for Harriet Smith in these pages: that the whole thing was unquestionably impressive but could ...

The Brahms sonatas aren't works that highlight the viola (or clarinet or violin). They demand musicians of equal interpretive vibrancy, as Diaz and Yi made clear. Their performances Sunday gave equal ...

As in so many other aspects of his output, Brahms was intensely self-critical about his violin sonatas. He composed his first as early as 1853, when he was just 20, which he probably played privately ...

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, ...

MOBILE, Alabama -- Violin and piano will pair up for a feast of Johannes Brahms' pieces when Mobile Symphony Orchestra Concertmaster and violinist Jenny Gregoire and pianist Robert Holm come together ...

On Friday, March 20, 2015, 8 pm, BARGEMUSIC presents celebrated Ukrainian-born pianist Inna Faliks in a recital featuring the world premiere of Clarice Assad's Godai, five movements for speaking ...