Sunday afternoon at Orchestra Hall, Emanuel Ax concluded his three-recital “Brahms Project” with a program that was simplicity itself: six Brahms masterpieces surrounding two contemporary commissions.

In his last three sets of piano pieces, all unnecessary rhetoric is purged from Brahms's music. There is no hectoring or lecturing, no celebration of virtuosity for its own sake. Lars Vogt is the ...

Markus Groh has built a considerable reputation as a Liszt interpreter, and his recording of the composer's B minor sonata and Totentanz was widely admired. For his follow-up he has gone to the ...

Here are two of the "Three Bs" back to back. Helene Grimaud plays the Intermezzo in B Minor from a collection of pieces Brahms published as his opus 119. And then it's the "Dona Nobis Pacem," which ...

LENOX -- If you want to know a composer well, one of the best ways is to listen to a cycle of his works, whether it’s Wagner in his "Ring" cycle of operas or Bach in his sonatas and partitas for solo ...

LENOX — For the first of his series of Tanglewood recitals surveying the solo piano music of Johannes Brahms, the Bavarian pianist Gerhard Oppitz programmed the composer’s earliest published piano ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Brahms: The great composer wrought subtle and profound changes with his works.Credit: Camera Press The title of Avner Dorman's ...