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Okay, we all know that at this point no one needs a new Brahms cycle, but this first installment has one thing going for it:
David Korevaar’s big, full-throated pianism perfectly suits Brahms’ variation sets, with their thick textures and orchestrally inspired sonorities. In contrast to the long arcs and
Dating from 1974/75, Peter Rösel’s Brahms recordings first appeared on the former East German Eterna label and were released on CD a few decades later
A student perusing the scores of these symphonies would find this recording useful. Kurt Masur’s performances are solidly by-the-book, apparently striving to present the music
The Fourth is the best offering in Kurt Masur’s rather tepid 1970s Brahms cycle. There’s a marked increase in energy compared with the first three
Conductor Kenneth Schermerhorn once remarked how Brahms’ First Symphony was too often played “in a bearded way”, as if composed by the bewhiskered, elderly Brahms
The success of Marston Records’ reissues devoted to composer/pianist Ernst Levy’s commercial recordings from the 1950s has led to the first publication of live performances
Leila Josefowicz’s stimulating and refreshingly varied recital program opens with Messiaen’s Theme and Variations, a strangely beautiful work that, although it provides some timbral and
The deep artistic rapport Mela Tenenbaum and Richard Kapp display in their splendid Bach sonata recordings permeates every measure of Brahms’ three sonatas. As Kapp
Pianist Wolfram Schmitt-Leonardy masters Brahms’ cruelly difficult Paganini Variations to the point where he downplays the music’s burly bravura by choice rather than necessity. He
