BRAHMS String Quartets Nos. 1 & 3

“The emotional palette is broad: surging intensity is balanced emotionally by tenderness, delicate sensitivity, and…even by touches of humou...

BRAHMS Piano Concerto no.1, Ballads op.10

Too innovative for its time, Brahms’s Piano Concerto no.1, premiered in Hanover in 1859, needed a few years to become established in the ...

BRAHMS Complete Piano Sonatas

Following up his recent Beethoven project, pianist Francois-Frederic Guy turns his focus to the music of Brahms. This two disc set from Evid...

BRAHMS & HINDEMITH Clarinet Quintets

“Sévère, with the Pražák Quartet, has very careful phrasing and articulation … Sévère blends beautifully with the quartet, who possess a mel...

GREAT Romantic Symphonies (10-CD Box Set)

The word ‘symphony’ is used to describe an extended orchestral composition in Western classical music. By the eighteenth century the Italian...

BRAHMS & SCHUMANN Transcriptions for Viola & Piano

It was standard practice in the 19th century to expand the possible target public for a work by issuing it in arrangements for different ins...