Brahms and Bartók make unlikely companions. In playing the Brahms concerto so introspectively and then focusing on the sense of mystery that opens Bartók’s Violin Concerto No. 1 Janine Jansen finds a ...

Johannes Brahms’ Piano Concerto No. 1 is an unwieldy beast. It was composed early in his career, and he struggled with it for five years before its 1859 premiere. (He had even bigger problems birthing ...

Jane Jones urges you to put one of the Big Four in your Top Three! It’s January, which means only one thing in the Classic FM calendar – nominations are invited for the top 300 pieces of classical ...

Brahms often sought the advice of experts when writing for instruments other than the piano. He was particularly lucky when it came to the violin. From the Hungarian violinist Eduard Remenyi, with ...

Forget drifting off to dreamland with Brahms’ lullaby. His Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor will keep you wide-awake, as Iowa City native Conor Hanick joins Orchestra Iowa for a pair of “Homecoming” ...

Stephen Kovacevich's new EMI recording of Brahms's D minor Piano Concerto with the LPO under Wolfgang Sawallisch strikes me as being an altogether exceptional account of this leonine, beautiful, but ...

Is Brahms’s music classical or romantic? Paul Lewis is clear-headed about the answer. His playing in Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1 disdains romantic heroics in favour of poise and proportion, fine ...

Suzy Klein with Brahms choral works throughout the week and live performances in the studio by pianist, Peter Donohoe and the Gould Piano Trio. Every night this week Live in Concert from Bristol for ...

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 ...

Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat Major; Variations on a Theme by Haydn for Orchestra, Op. 56a (Horacio Gutierrez, piano; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Andre Previn, cond.; Telarc). This disc is ...