Johannes Brahms sent Sonata No. 1 in G major, Op. 78 manuscript copy to Clara Schumann wife of late Robert Schumann; her response was “I must send you a line to tell you how excited I am about your ...

Barry Douglas has reached the third volume of his survey of Brahms’s piano works, continuing his mix-and-match policy of bringing together pieces from all periods of the composer’s output, often as ...

Alexandre Kantorow talks to Jeremy Nicholas about the least Brahmsian of the piano sonatas Right at the end of my conversation with Alexandre Kantorow, I happen to ask him what else he is putting on ...

The first Brahms sonata recorded by Isabelle Faust and Alexander Melnikov on period instruments made a big impression: here are the other two wonderful sonatas, with companion pieces. We often hear ...

Johannes Brahms was only 50 when, in December 1890, he told his publisher Fritz Simrock that it was "time to stop". The following May he wrote his will. His notions of retiring went famously by the ...

Emanuel Gruber, a cello and chamber music professor in East Carolina University’s School of Music, has released a new recording of Johannes Brahms’ cello sonatas with pianist Arnon Erez. Gruber said ...

Tim Parry talks to Nelson Goerner about the special qualities of Brahms’s finest piano sonata Brahms composed three piano sonatas – Opp 1, 2 and 5. As the numbers suggest, these are all early works, ...

German pianist Markus Groh is better known in Europe than in the US, but his name is gaining some momentum. We hear him play a Beethoven Piano Sonata in New York in a few minutes. First, a little ...

Daniel Ottensamer performs Brahms’ clarinet sonatas in stunning orchestrations by Stephan Koncz in this week’s Feature Album on ABC Classic. Joined by the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, with ...

The fruitful artistic partnership that the British violinist Jack Liebeck has forged with Moscow-born pianist Katya Apekisheva has already fuelled an outstanding disc of Prokofiev, Ysaÿe, Chausson and ...