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 ...

The piano artistry of Elaine Greenfield is featured in this program. The piano artistry of Elaine Greenfield is featured in this program of Brahms, Debussy and Ginostera. Works include the Brahms ...

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 ...

Freire plays tribute to the noted German composer on his new album. Music critic Lloyd Schwartz doesn't always love Brahms, but he loves this recording. This is FRESH AIR. The Brazilian pianist Nathan ...

A fresh take on Brahms sounded like a fine idea, though not something easily pulled off. Yet pianist Emanual Ax managed just such a feat in his recital Thursday night at the Union College Concert ...

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 ...