Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Painting of composer Johannes Brahms(Willy von Beckerath (Public Domain)) The 29-year-old Johannes ...

Daniel Hope, violinist of this quartet of friends, insists “we all leave our egos at the door”. The other three egos belong to Paul Neubauer (viola), David Finckel (cello) and Wu Han (piano). The four ...

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 ...

Piano Quartet No. 2 Christian Tetzlaff, Violin Barbara Buntrock, Viola Tanja Tetzlaff, Cello Lars Vogt, Piano Piano Quartet No. 3 Christian Tetzlaff, Violin Barbara Buntrock, Viola Tanja Tetzlaff, ...

Piano Quartet No. 1 Giovanni Guzzo, Violin Màtè Szücs, Viola Miklós Perényi, Cello Dénes Várjon, Piano Piano Quartet No. 2 Giovanni Guzzo, Violin Màtè Szücs, Viola Miklós Perényi, Cello Dénes Várjon, ...

Brahms was a scholar’s nightmare. He burned many letters and destroyed traces of works that didn’t meet his standards. But, late in life, he revisited and thoroughly revised a youthful, published work ...

Like opening the curtains on a sunny morning, this recording throws fresh light on the familiar features of Brahms's beguiling chamber music. The glorious Piano Quintet in F minor, Op 34, considered ...

Founded in 2014, the Berlin Piano Quartet brings together three leading string players from the Berlin Philharmonic and French pianist Kim Barbier. Is it surprising their performances borrow some of ...

Brahms was apparently so petrified of comparisons with Beethoven's achievements in the form that he destroyed the 20 or so string quartets he composed as a youth before finally, having turned 40, ...

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 ...