Johannes Brahms can be forgiven for taking, by some accounts, anywhere from 14 to 21 years to complete his First Symphony. It was expected that he would follow in the mighty footsteps of that other ...

Few piano concertos speak as cogently as the two that came from Brahms’ pen. Though vastly different in character, together they represent a pinnacle of 19th century pianism. True, each lies awkwardly ...

How do you follow up three performances featuring all five Beethoven piano concertos? How about four concerts featuring the complete piano works of Johannes Brahms? That’s exactly what you can look ...

Brahms's piano concertos are two of the greatest pillars of the Romantic repertoire. The first, written in 1858 when the composer was still a young man, is like a symphony where piano and orchestra ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Igor Levit never does anything by halves. When he wanted to record Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas, he moved quickly ...

Brahms composed his first piano concerto in 1858, and premiered the work in Hannover the following year. Although nowadays Brahms is often remembered for his full-blooded, large-scale works, at the ...

Advance track of collaboration with Christian Thielemann available to hear today Sony Classical has announced a new release from pianist Igor Levit – Brahms’s two Piano Concertos, recorded with ...

The contrast didn't go as far as ridiculous and sublime, but hearing piano concertos by Leroy Anderson and Johannes Brahms on two successive nights at Miller Outdoor Theatre was certainly a lesson in ...

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 ...

Both of Brahms’s piano concertos are gargantuan works. At nearly fifty minutes in duration, this one lasts longer than any other major Romantic piano concerto by quite some stretch. And talking of ...

The latest addition to the MSO Live Series, ABC Classics proudly presents Brahms’ Piano Concertos No.1 & 2. The only piano concertos Brahms composed are performed sumptuously here by soloist Garrick ...

Time was when Daniel Barenboim tore into Brahms’s “First Piano Concerto” as if he was in an Olympian fury. In this performance he is subdued, pensively rhapsodic, cautious in the face of impending ...