A famous set of variations by Brahms is ahead later in the hour. First, we've got a Brahms Intermezzo that was inspired by a Scottish folk tune. Pianist Helene Grimaud plays the Intermezzo, Op. 117, ...

In his last three sets of piano pieces, all unnecessary rhetoric is purged from Brahms's music. There is no hectoring or lecturing, no celebration of virtuosity for its own sake. Lars Vogt is the ...

Freire plays tribute to the noted German composer on his new album. Music critic Lloyd Schwartz doesn't always love Brahms, but he loves this recording. This is FRESH AIR. The Brazilian pianist Nathan ...

Pianist Gwendolyn Mok is into the Big Bang behind musical compositions. What was it that led Beethoven or Ravel to create their “sound worlds?” she asks. Here’s what she thinks: Music often rises out ...

Most striking in Chaplin’s readings is his ability to create pellucid textures, allowing Brahms’s polyphony to stand out in bold relief. And to a greater extent than many performers, Chaplin defines ...

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Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The ageing process was not kind to Brahms. As a young adult he still looked juvenile but, by the time he ...

Darkness hangs over a fluid and distinctively emotional take on a dozen introspective works Brahms’s late piano music is a pinnacle of 19th-century Romanticism, though its atmosphere of introspection ...