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The fly in this otherwise useful batch of all-Brahms ointment consists of Pierre Monteux’s virtually unlistenable San Francisco Second Symphony, a performance and recording surpassed
One of life’s pleasures is welcoming a new disc by the Prazák Quartet. This latest in its series of Brahms String Quartets is especially welcome
Marc-André Hamelin’s forays into the standard repertoire have met with mixed success, partly because the competition is so strong, and partly because there seems to
This very generous Brahms collection has more complete works and less excerpts than some of the other titles in Deutsche Grammophon’s Panorama series. The program
Although not all of the works pianist Evgenia Rubinova includes on her EMI “fantasy” recital are fantasies in name, they certainly are in spirit. However,
If her latest disc is anything to go by, Elisabeth Leonskaya’s command of Brahms’ gnarly keyboard idiom has developed and deepened since her earlier recorded
The first thing you hear are the Third Symphony’s opening chords beautifully balanced, dramatically swelling. Then a glorious wall of sound fills your listening space,
Marc Pantillon’s sensitively executed, thoughtful Brahms interpretations offer much to savor. In the first Op. 10 Ballade, he plays the “Edward” theme’s recapitulation slightly slower
It’s an attractive idea: The New York Philharmonic plays a concert on March 31, 2006 and has it for sale on May 23 by digital
The chief virtue of this set is the distinctive sound of the Czech Philharmonic, whose fabled clarity and ensemble balance elucidates Brahms’ allegedly “thick” orchestral
