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 ...

The highlights of Op 118 are to be found in the second piece, which he turns into a true Lied, with a beautifully haloed middle section, and the Ballade, which sets off with a bright-eyed vigour that ...

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 ...

For a while now, Rachmaninov has usurped Brahms in the affection of pianists, at least insofar as the two composers’ solo piano works feature in concert programmes. And, perhaps as a consequence, the ...