Jane Jones urges you to put one of the Big Four in your Top Three! It’s January, which means only one thing in the Classic FM calendar – nominations are invited for the top 300 pieces of classical ...

Classical violinist Rachel Barton Pine performs Brahms Violin Concerto in D Major. The complete Brahms Violin Concerto in D Major, performed by violin soloist Rachel Barton Pine with the La Crosse ...

Brahms’s Violin Concerto stands alongside Beethoven’s at the peak of the instrument’s repertoire. Charlotte Gardner makes a selection from almost a century of recordings Critics don’t always get it ...

Brahms lived and worked under the shadow of Beethoven throughout his career. Brahms was very conscious of this – indeed, it was one of the main reasons why he took so long to compose a symphony – and ...

Rising young violinist Geneva Lewis demonstrated her musicality with the Santa Rosa Symphony last March, when she performed Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto in D Major with a precise focus on each note, ...

As in so many other aspects of his output, Brahms was intensely self-critical about his violin sonatas. He composed his first as early as 1853, when he was just 20, which he probably played privately ...

Leonidas Kavakos appeared in both the Double Concerto and the Violin Concerto during Riccardo Chailly and the Leipzig Gewandhaus's Brahms residency at the Barbican in London in October. Their superb ...

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra Johannes Brahms, Composer James Gaffigan, Conductor Lucerne Symphony Orchestra Vadim Gluzman, Violin Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 1 Angela Yoffe, Piano Vadim ...