Brahms Archive

Tabea Zimmermann, violist Tabea Zimmermann’s viola sound is extraordinarily beautiful, dark, and so musical. Her performance in either concertos or chamber music is defined by total precision, and her phrasing has a touching warmth. In …

Brahms: Works for Solo Piano Volume 2 Johannes Brahms composed three types of music for piano: 1. Two huge, amazing piano concertos; these are like symphonies for piano and orchestra. Both are real masterpieces, in …

Imogen Cooper plays Brahms and Schumann This CD is Volume 1 in Imogen Cooper’s new series dedicated to the complete works for piano by Robert Schumann. Let me begin with a few Spotify audio excerpts …

Lisa Batiashvili plays Brahms and C. Schumann I heard Lisa Batiashvili perform in Toronto when I last visited there. Her career has developed nicely since then— Here are a few audio selections on my Spotify …

Sir Georg Solti conducts Mendelssohn & Brahms As my readers, you already know that Sir Georg Solti was one of my favorite conductors. He was the subject of November’s DVD of the month; and here …