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It must have been exciting for audience members attending Clifford Curzon’s Salzburg Festival debut on July 26, 1955 to hear the pianist speed through Brahms’
For his program celebrating the “twin peaks of the Romantic Ballade”, Cédric Tiberghien brackets Brahms’ Op. 10 set with Chopin’s First and Second on one
Steinway Legends’ Wilhelm Kempff survey covers just about all of the composers central to the great pianist’s repertoire in carefully chosen recordings from different stages
Try as I might to be objective and let musical values speak for themselves, I confess that I came to this recording in a cynical
RCA resurrects Gerhard Oppitz’s late-1980s solo Brahms cycle as a budget boxed set, an enticing marketing ploy that nevertheless will not bump up these generally
Although caught in concert in the BBC studios in 1966 (concerto) and 1963 (sonata), these archives are in mono, a not very good mono in
Among recommendable versions of the Brahms Piano Quartets, these 1996 recordings continue to wear well. Their high points are many, starting with the G minor’s
Music lovers who have trouble warming to the dense, upholstered sound world of Brahms’ four symphonies will find his two early Serenades unusually tuneful, texturally
Michael Gielen’s slow tempo for Brahms’ un poco sostenuto opening of the First Symphony deceptively predicts a solemn and weighty reading in the manner of
Michael Gielen leads a peculiar and ultimately unsatisfying Brahms Symphony No. 2. The peculiarity resides mainly in the first movement, which has an oddly fragmented
