It is apparently almost 20 years since Murray Perahia last recorded any Brahms – the F minor sonata and an assortment of later piano pieces – and Brahms has never been a composer with whom he has been ...

In his last three sets of piano pieces, all unnecessary rhetoric is purged from Brahms's music. There is no hectoring or lecturing, no celebration of virtuosity for its own sake. Lars Vogt is the ...

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 ...