Latest News: Classical, Brahms (composer)
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Presto Music Classical Podcast,
Episode 48: Doubling Brahms - Busoni and his violin concerto with Francesca Dego 24th February 2024The violinist talks about her new recording of violin concertos by Brahms and Busoni on Chandos - explaining why she was drawn to the Italian composer's music, how his violin concerto reveals his profound admiration for Brahms's, and what happens when a wife-and-husband musician couple take to the stage together.
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Recording of the Week,
Brahms Quintets from the Pavel Haas Quartet and friends 13th May 2022Three years on from their previous album, the Pavel Haas Quartet make a triumphant recorded return with two quintets by Brahms, for which they are joined by pianist Boris Giltburg and violist Pavel Nikl.
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Recording of the Week,
Paul Lewis plays Brahms 21st January 2022The British pianist's interpretations of the final four sets of solo piano works are a revelation, capturing all of the poetry and drama of the music and often emphasising its kinship with Debussy and Rachmaninov.
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Recording of the Week,
András Schiff performs piano concertos by Brahms 4th June 2021The Hungarian-born pianist is joined by the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment for a recording of Brahms's two piano concertos that strips away performance traditions to present refreshingly original accounts of both works, full of detail and character.
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Interview,
Elīna Garanča on Schumann and Brahms 18th November 2020The Latvian mezzo talks to Katherine about her first lieder recording (released earlier this month on Deutsche Grammophon, with Malcolm Martineau), and preparing to make her Wagner debut as Kundry...
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Interview,
Lars Vogt on Brahms 6th May 2020The German pianist and conductor talks to Katherine about the joys and challenges of directing the two Brahms concertos from the keyboard on his recent recordings with Royal Northern Sinfonia on Ondine.
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Interview,
Jack Liebeck on Brahms and Schoenberg 22nd April 2020The violinist talks to Katherine about his BBC Music Magazine Recording of the Month, which was inspired in part by the memory of his grandfather Walter Liebeck - an accomplished amateur violinist and German emigré.
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Interview,
Robin Ticciati on Brahms's Symphonies 21st March 2018The conductor talks to Katherine about his final recording as Principal Conductor of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, out this Friday on Linn Records.
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Recording of the Week,
Alfred Brendel performs music by Schumann and Brahms 16th March 2018Live recordings by Alfred Brendel of Schumann's Piano Concerto and Brahms's Handel Variations have been made available on disc for the first time.
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Recording of the Week,
Brahms Symphonies from Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony Orchestra 26th May 2017James listens to Andris Nelsons' new complete Brahms cycle with the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
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Recording of the Week,
Vocal Music by Brahms 17th June 2016Katherine listens to a double-bill of Brahms, featuring Matthias Goerne, Magdalena Kožená, Thomas Quasthoff and more.
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Recording of the Week,
Paul Lewis performs Brahms's Piano Concerto No. 1 15th April 2016James enjoys Paul Lewis's take on Brahms's concerto, with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra under Daniel Harding.
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Recording of the Week,
Kopatchinskaja and Jansen perform violin concertos by Tchaikovsky, Brahms, and Bartók 8th January 2016David enjoys two new discs of violin concerto repertoire, from Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Janine Jansen.
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Recording of the Week,
Brahms Serenades from Riccardo Chailly 2nd February 2015James listens to Riccardo Chailly's latest disc of Brahms with the Leipzig Gewandhausorchester.
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Recording of the Week,
Iván Fischer conducts Brahms 15th December 2014David listens to Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra's new recording of Brahms's Second Symphony.
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Composer Guides,
Johannes Brahms - Orchestral & Choral Works James surveys recordings of orchestral and choral works by Brahms, and selects some of his favourites.
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Recording of the Week,
Brahms choral discs from Gardiner and Herreweghe 5th March 2012Gardiner follows his recording of the complete symphonies with an account of the Deutsches Requiem that scores highly on textual clarity, whilst Herreweghe and Collegium Vocale Gent offer luminous performances of the Alto Rhapsody (with Ann Hallenberg as soloist) and Schicksalsied.
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Recording of the Week,
Brahms/Schoenberg from Rattle and the Berliner Philharmoniker 8th August 2011Rattle conducts Schoenberg’s orchestration of the Brahms Piano Quartet in G minor, plus the Chamber Symphony No. 1 and Accompanying Music to a Cinematographic Scene.
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Recording of the Week,
Robin Ticciati and Brahms' Choral Works 22nd March 2010The 27-year-old conductor brings a wonderful Brahmsian glow to the Alto Rhapsody (with Alice Coote as soloist), Nänie, Gesang der Parzen and the Schicksalslied with the Bamberger Symphoniker and Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks.
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Recording of the Week,
Rattle conducts Brahms 31st August 2009The ‘incredible warmth and beauty of sound’ which Rattle coaxes from the Berliner Philharmoniker in the four symphonies echoes the achievement of their Gramophone award-winning recording of Ein deutsches Requiem in 2007.