Barry Douglas is an outstanding Brahms interpreter, yet this first volume of his planned survey of the complete piano works is disconcerting. It brings together pieces from almost all periods of ...

Though period-instrument recordings of earlier 19th-century chamber music are reasonably familiar these days, I'm not sure that any of these works by Brahms have been performed in such a way on disc ...

Adam Laloum takes seriously the maestoso directive in the first movement of Brahms’s F minor Sonata, bringing a granitic yet fluent continuity to the bulbous chords and thorny octave passages. This is ...

In the booklet Elena Fischer-Dieskau’s biography coyly says she was ‘born into a family of musicians’, which hardly sums up the fact that her grandfather was one of the greatest singers of the 20th ...

In 1878, Brahms decided to return to a form he hadn't touched in over a decade — piano miniatures. We'll hear the result. Kirill Gerstein (keer-IL GER-steyen) perform four of the Eight Piano Pieces ...