Franceso Piemontesi's latest recital disc confirms the fine impression left by his set of Schumann's piano sonatas released by Claves last year. There's a real aristocratic sweep to this 27-year-old ...

(25) Variations and Fugue on a Theme by G.F. Handel Nelly Akopian-Tamarina, Piano Johannes Brahms, Composer (4) Ballades Nelly Akopian-Tamarina, Piano Johannes Brahms, Composer Listening to Nelly ...

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 ...

Pianist extraordinaire Murray Perahia, who once seemed obsessed with the music of Bach, returns for the first time in 20 years to the music of Johannes Brahms in a recording that’s sure to spark ...

Throughout the week Classic FM’s presenters bring you the best new recordings, including world exclusives and premiere broadcasts of latest releases. This week: ‘Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 & Handel ...

(25) Variations and Fugue on a Theme by G.F. Handel Johannes Brahms, Composer Murray Perahia, Piano (2) Rhapsodies, Movements: No. 1 in B minor Johannes Brahms, Composer Murray Perahia, Piano (2) ...

Theme and variation form is one of the most elementary and primitive forms of musical construction. Its limitation for the composer is that he or she must work with a predetermined module that keeps ...

Perahia brings his customary mastery to piano works by Brahms, a composer he is not usually associated with but whose blend of lyricism and rigour suits his gifts perfectly. The disc opens with the ...

The young Swiss-Italian Francesco Piemontesi combines communicative panache with remarkable insight. He prefaces a virile, sensitive performance of Brahms’s Handel Variations with a stylistically ...

Murray Perahia’s Brahms is outstanding in every way. He has the elegance to showcase the baroque inspiration of the Handel Variations, but also the sense of scale and architecture to encompass ...