You would qualify for a bus pass now if you experienced Wilhelm Kempff's keyboard mastery at its peak. Many of us have heard him only in his old age, when his rather fitful, often laboured ...

Brahms planned his First Piano Concerto as a sonata for two pianos, but the music’s stormy grandeur soon needed bigger forces. He dreamed of composing a symphony, but the Beethoven’s shadow loomed too ...

Throughout this Brahms recital, Alexandre Kantorow throws down an epic gauntlet, casting his sights on dynamic and dramatic extremes. The pianist broods over the first Ballade’s Andante, and builds ...

It's an all-Brahms hour on PT, and we're moving along to San Diego, Calif. to hear pianist Stephen Hough go solo at the La Jolla Music Society. He plays the Ballade No. 3 by Brahms.

Plowright’s recent account of the Op 10 Ballades was deeply impressive, and so is this new reading, even if neither can rival Sokolov in sheer reactivity. Kozhukhin avoids sounding ponderous in the ...

Paul Lewis explained that he had conceived his concert of late Beethoven sonatas and Ballades and Intermezzi by Brahms as a way of contrasting music of high drama and tension with some of the most ...

How do you follow up three performances featuring all five Beethoven piano concertos? How about four concerts featuring the complete piano works of Johannes Brahms? That’s exactly what you can look ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. It's obvious that Lewis is virtuosic and versatile. "Yes, you should keep in touch with the [piano] ...

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7722/j.ctt9qdgpw https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7722/j.ctt9qdgpw.3 This volume of fifteen essays has been created as a means of ...