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 ...

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 ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Early in his career, Andras Schiff disdained historical authenticity. Now he embraces it, including on a revelatory new Brahms recording. By David ...

An unknown work by the composer Johannes Brahms has come to light after almost 160 years following its chance discovery in a visitor's book, and will be played for the first time next week. The ...

It’s a great week for keyboard fans, especially those who love Brahms’ piano music. Noted pianist Vladimir Feltsman is in town for an extended stay with the Seattle Symphony, where he first plays ...

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Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by My Favorite Page The pianist Paul Lewis picks his favorite page of Brahms’s late solos, a work of “abject anguish.” By David Allen The British pianist ...

For all the serious and complex orchestral music he composed, there's a lighter side to Johannes Brahms. This, after all, was the man who was so taken with Hungarian gypsy music, he wrote a whole set ...

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 ...

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 ...

Johannes Brahms was only 50 when, in December 1890, he told his publisher Fritz Simrock that it was "time to stop". The following May he wrote his will. His notions of retiring went famously by the ...