Brahms’ Piano Trio No. 1 is a youthful work… or at least so it began. Brahms completed it in January 1854, just months after he was introduced to Robert and Clara Schumann, who were deeply …
Brahms’ first piano concerto, which made no concessions to contemporary taste, was, it seems, conceived originally as a sonata for two pianos. This then became a symphony, to reach its final form as the Piano …
The long first movement of the Brahms violin concert features sequences of turbulent emotion, sometimes interwoven and sometimes quick-cut with dreamy lyricism. The Adagio is justly famous for the great oboe melody at its foundation. …
The Brahms Concerto in B-flat, in four movements rather than the usual three, opens with a marvelous, mood-setting horn call that seems to gather all the other instruments, with the piano responding to its graceful …
The two sonatas Opus 120 by Brahms were published for clarinet or viola, and later adjusted for violin and piano. They have become an essential element in viola repertoire, featuring the darker tones of the …