The Brahms Piano Concertos

The Brahms Piano Concertos are two of the largest and most demanding in the repertoire. This season they will be played on ...
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Complete Brahms Piano Trios in concert

The trio of cellist Bion Tsang, pianist/composer John Novacek, and violinist/Conductor Scott Yoo frequently share the stage outside of Texas, and Tsang eagerly reunites them in Austin for this concert ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Decoding the music masterpieces: Brahms's Piano Quartet in G minor

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 ...
Morning Call PA

Bach Choir presents rare piano version of Brahms Requiem

Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem (A German Requiem) for choir and orchestra, which premiered in 1867, brought the composer fame. His arrangement for choir and two pianos, completed just one year later, ...
The Arts Desk

Brahms Piano Sonatas, Elisabeth Leonskaja, Wigmore Hall review - when giants meet

All this, too, from memory, like another septuagenarian pianist, Idil Biret, when I last saw her. Leonskaja's first act after entering was to remove the music rack - a practical gesture, nothing ...
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Brahms Piano Concerto No 2, by Nicholas Angelich

When I was a student at the Paris Conservatoire, I started by learning this piece, not Brahms’s First Concerto. Many people were more attracted initially to the latter, maybe because it has a ...
The New York Times

A Pianist Comes Around on Period Instruments

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 ...
Texarkana Gazette

Music of Brahms brought to TC

TEXARKANA, Texas -- Music of Brahms for Violin and Piano was performed by Kiril Laskarov (violin) and Mary Scott Smith (piano) at the Stilwell Humanities Music Hall on Thursday morning. Smith and ...
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Inside Brahms’s Piano Sonata No 3 – with Nelson Goerner

Brahms composed three piano sonatas – Opp 1, 2 and 5. As the numbers suggest, these are all early works, full of youthful athleticism and virtuoso exuberance; he never again returned to the genre. The ...
The New York Times

‘There’s Nothing Quite as Distressing as This Piece’

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by My Favorite Page The pianist Paul Lewis picks his favorite page of Brahms’s late solos, a work of “abject anguish.” By David Allen The British pianist ...

A viola week downtown infused everything from Brahms to a symposium on a Korean composer

Brahms' viola-infused string quintets and sextets have in them the essence of amber autumn, and three major L.A. institutions ...