This is a fine but frustrating disc. Admirers of the superb Swedish clarinettist Martin Fröst may already have this version of Brahms' Trio for clarinet, cello and piano Op 114, which was released ...

Aimez-vous Brahms? Some love Brahms, often for the passion. Others can’t stomach the man’s thick-textured, thickly harmonic, tradition-thick music. LA Weekly music critic Alan Rich led the legions of ...

Jane Jones explores the work which was an end to early retirement for Brahms. After years of self criticism, and the burden of great expectation laid on his shoulders by friend and mentor Robert ...

Aston Magna is on the move this summer. At least temporally speaking. “Winds of Romanticism” was the title of Thursday night’s program at Brandeis’s Slosberg Auditorium. After having pitched its tent ...

Brahms struggled for three years to find just the right instrumentation for his Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34. After rejecting several options, he finally settled on piano plus string quartet. It's ...

The Takács Quartet also offer a rival recording of the C minor String Quartet (their Hyperion remake, which follows almost two decades after their first recording for Decca, 9/90 R). While both the ...