This programme, recorded live at London’s Wigmore Hall in January last year, brought together the remarkable artistry of the Portuguese pianist Maria João Pires and her regular cellist partner, the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Reviews and recommendations are unbiased and products are independently selected. Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases made through links on this page. Johannes Brahms wrote 18 ...

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 ...

Brahms' last piano compositions are often recorded together (at least three new sets have just hit the market) but hardly ever performed complete in recital. They last only an hour, but it's one that ...

(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 The A major Intermezzo, for example, is sombre and withdrawn compared to Lars Vogt’s ...