Brahms's piano concertos are two of the greatest pillars of the Romantic repertoire. The first, written in 1858 when the composer was still a young man, is like a symphony where piano and orchestra ...

Brahms composed his first piano concerto in 1858, and premiered the work in Hannover the following year. Although nowadays Brahms is often remembered for his full-blooded, large-scale works, at the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Alexandre Kantorow talks to Jeremy Nicholas about the least Brahmsian of the piano sonatas Right at the end of my conversation with Alexandre Kantorow, I happen to ask him what else he is putting on ...

Tim Parry talks to Nelson Goerner about the special qualities of Brahms’s finest piano sonata Brahms composed three piano sonatas – Opp 1, 2 and 5. As the numbers suggest, these are all early works, ...

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