Pianist Emil Gilels, who was known for a mercurial style combined with a supreme sensitivity, performs Brahms’ Piano Concerto No 2 for the Cologne radio broadcasts in 1971. The album includes a ...

Johannes Brahms can be forgiven for taking, by some accounts, anywhere from 14 to 21 years to complete his First Symphony. It was expected that he would follow in the mighty footsteps of that other ...

Piano recitals as fine as Radu Lupu’s program of works by Brahms and Beethoven in Bethesda on Sunday afternoon are rare. The pianist’s interpretation of Brahms’ darkly colored Seven Fantasies, opus ...

Towering strength and conviction in the service of the greater glory of Brahms Although Nicholas Angelich’s repertoire ranges far and wide, he has made a speciality in Brahms, music superbly suited to ...

Is it familiarity that makes us love the greater Schumann so much more than the lesser? Perhaps not, suggests Emil Gilels’s gripping account of the rarely heard Piano Pieces Op 32, characteristic ...

Krystian Zimerman recorded both the Brahms concertos for Deutsche Grammophon more than 20 years ago with Leonard Bernstein and the Vienna Philharmonic. By his own stellar standards those were ...