The Paris-based group’s first disc is a wonderfully detailed recording of Brahms quartets that at times might benefit from a more muscular edge Quatuor Agate owe their name to Brahms – taking it from ...
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Why these live performances from 2015 and 2013 have waited so long for release is a mystery; this is the best Brahms symphony disc I’ve heard in ages. Charles Mackerras and Robin Ticciati have shown ...
Aimez-vous Brahms? Some love Brahms, often for the passion. Others can’t stomach the man’s thick-textured, thickly harmonic, tradition-thick music. LA Weekly music critic Alan Rich led the legions of ...
Brahms: Symphonies 3 and 4. London Classical Players; Roger Norrington, conductor (EMI). Norrington’s period-instrument recordings have so often freed masterpieces from the thoughtlessness known has ...
On the other hand I immediately felt how hard it would be to come close to this “truth”. In all of Brahms’s music there is this element of something elusive and unreachable. Deeply inspired by this ...
As part of his weekly guide to classical masterpieces, Ivan Hewett looks at how a summer holiday inspired Brahms's sunniest symphony Ivan Hewett is The Telegraph’s Classical Music Critic and an author ...