Brahms - Klavierstücke (8), Op. 76

This third volume in Jonathan Plowright’s series of recordings of Brahms’s piano works lives up to the high promise of the first two — BBC Music Magazine, May 2016, 5 out of 5 stars More…

This is altogether very impressive playing, capturing all the intimacy of the pieces which Brahms labelled as Intermezzos, as well as the drama and urgency of the more outward-going Capriccios…What... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2019, 5 out of 5 stars More…

There is a sense in which the Second Piano Concerto is...chamber music writ large. Yet there is nothing small-scale about this performance...Angelich produces a rich and solid tone-quality throughout... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2010, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The [piano] sound is small scale with a silvery top and without the turbo-charged quality of a modern piano’s bass. This is particularly beneficial in the earlier E minor Sonata. Some may well... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2019, 3 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 2 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

The perfect case of a pianist who sounds completely relaxed in the studio and, because of that, manages to balance assertiveness and poetry in ideal proportions. Gerhard Oppitz is a penetrating... — Gramophone Magazine, September 2007 More…