Garrick Ohlsson includes six sets of Brahms's variations in his survey, though only two of them, the Variations and Fugue on a theme by Handel, Op 24, and the Paganini Variations, Op 35, are well ...

Much of Brahms's piano music, with its galloping rhythms and urgent melodic figures, can be called "demonic", the word his friend Schumann used to describe the younger composer's Ballade in B minor Op ...

Since the recent death of Alicia de Larrocha, Joaquín Achúcarro is probably the pre-eminent living Spanish pianist. He's also a significant presence in Dallas, with an endowed professorship at ...

The young American pianist Nicholas Angelich was born to play Brahms, and he has been wise to capitalise on the fact. All his Virgin Classics discs so far have been of Brahms’s music, be it works for ...

In 1878, Brahms decided to return to a form he hadn't touched in over a decade — piano miniatures. We'll hear the result. Kirill Gerstein (keer-IL GER-steyen) perform four of the Eight Piano Pieces ...

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 ...

LENOX -- Accustomed to piloting himself to his concerts around Europe, Gerhard Oppitz is engaged in a solo flight of a different kind at Tanglewood. The German pianist will play Mozart’s Piano ...

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 ...

I reviewed an impressive two-CD set of Schumann from this pianist (2/24), and the new release suggests an affinity for Brahms that may be even stronger. It makes sense to juxtapose early and late ...

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 ...

Star Canadian pianist Angela Hewitt was joined in an unexpected duet, while rehearsing Brahms’ Piano Concerto No.1 ahead of a concert in March. As she made her way through the pulsating opening bars ...