(7) Pieces, Movements: No. 6, Intermezzo in E Jonas Vitaud, Piano Johannes Brahms, Composer Op 118 hits and misses. The A major Intermezzo, for example, is sombre and withdrawn compared to Lars Vogt’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

Concert Pianist Barry Douglas performs Brahms' Intermezzo Op. 117 No. 2 for The Arts Show ...

Most striking in Chaplin’s readings is his ability to create pellucid textures, allowing Brahms’s polyphony to stand out in bold relief. And to a greater extent than many performers, Chaplin defines ...

Jonathan Plowright’s survey of Brahms’s piano music for BIS could hardly have got off to a more auspicious start. The main piece here is the F sharp minor Piano Sonata Op 2, and from the first few ...

Pianist Gwendolyn Mok is into the Big Bang behind musical compositions. What was it that led Beethoven or Ravel to create their “sound worlds?” she asks. Here’s what she thinks: Music often rises out ...

Saturday will mark the 183rd birthday of the celebrated German composer and pianist Johannes Brahms. A complicated and utterly self-guarded man, Brahms liked to claim that his music didn’t flow from ...