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 ...

Tom Poster and Elena Urioste join Charlotte Gardner to share thoughts on this popular work Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective’s three ‘Brahms and Contemporaries’ albums – each one pairing one of Brahms’s ...

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 ...

As anyone who has heard their accounts of the Schubert piano trios with pianist Frank Brailey from last year will know, the Capuçon brothers, violinist Renaud and cellist Gautier, are chamber ...

Now in his early 60s, Brazilian Nelson Freire is one of the leading pianists of our time, though he is still not known here. These performances of the Brahms concertos, recorded at concerts in Leipzig ...

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 ...

International concert pianist, Stephen Hough, and members of the London Philharmonic Orchestra invite us to listen in as they rehearse Brahms’s First Piano Concerto. Show more International concert ...

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 ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Listen as Carlos Santana, Branford Marsalis and others pick their favorites of the moody master of 19th-century music. In the past, we’ve chosen 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 ...