The New Zealand String Quartet has a distinguished track record on disc, balancing homegrown with international repertoire. Its latest Naxos release offers the first two string quartets of Brahms, ...

"Definitive" is a dangerous word to use about any performance, especially when the work in question is the rich and repeatedly recorded Piano Quintet Op. 34 by Brahms. But this eloquent, expansive and ...

Musica Tra Amici (Music Among Friends) will have their first concert of 2022. For this chamber music concert, Artistic Director and Houston Symphony co-concertmaster, Eric Halen, will be joined by his ...

How does a musician in Florida get ready to play a monumental work with four other musicians who are in British Columbia? "You have to hear the other parts in your head when you're practicing," said ...

Ivan Hewett compares recordings of Brahms’s first piano quartet. His final choice is: BRAHMS: Piano Quartet No.1, Op. 25; Piano Quartet No. 2, Op. 26; Piano Quartet No. 3, Op. 60 Nicholas Angelich ...

“Quasi Minuetto” — “sort of a minuet”. Why “quasi” rather than simply “Minuetto”? Because by the time Brahms came to write this piece, somewhere between 1866 and 1873, the dainty triple-time dance ...

Suzy Klein with Brahms choral works throughout the week and live performances in the studio by pianist, Peter Donohoe and the Gould Piano Trio. Every night this week Live in Concert from Bristol for ...