Alexandre Kantorow talks to Jeremy Nicholas about the least Brahmsian of the piano sonatas Right at the end of my conversation with Alexandre Kantorow, I happen to ask him what else he is putting on ...

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 ...

Johannes Brahms sent Sonata No. 1 in G major, Op. 78 manuscript copy to Clara Schumann wife of late Robert Schumann; her response was “I must send you a line to tell you how excited I am about your ...

Sonata for Piano No. 1 Alexander Melnikov, Piano Johannes Brahms, Composer Sonata for Piano No. 2 Alexander Melnikov, Piano Johannes Brahms, Composer Scherzo Johannes Brahms, Composer Alexander ...

Johannes Brahms was only 50 when, in December 1890, he told his publisher Fritz Simrock that it was "time to stop". The following May he wrote his will. His notions of retiring went famously by the ...

Stephen Johnson compares the first published works of Brahms and Berg, examining how each re-imagined the classical idea of a 'piano sonata'. Show more Stephen Johnson looks at two startling "Opus ...

For a composer who was so circumspect, who waited until he was over 40 to complete a symphony, and who destroyed so much of the music he wrote, Brahms must have had a big soft spot for his early piano ...

“It’s like when you have a vision of a huge mountain from far away,” says Nelson Freire about returning to Brahms’s F Minor Piano Sonata after a gap of 50 years. “By getting close you begin to notice ...

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 ...

Legendary Korean violinist Chung Kyung-wha will hold a series of concerts in September with pianist Kevin Kenner featuring the complete Brahms violin sonatas. The duo of many years will present three ...