Imaginative recital programming seems to come naturally to pianist-composer Conrad Tao. He consistently merges contemporary ...

(7) Pieces, Movements: No. 6, Intermezzo in E Jonas Vitaud, Piano Johannes Brahms, Composer Op 118 hits and misses. The A major Intermezzo, for example, is sombre and withdrawn compared to Lars Vogt’s ...

(7) Pieces, Movements: No. 2, Intermezzo in A minor Piotr Anderszewski, Piano (3) Pieces, Movements: No. 2, Intermezzo in B flat minor Piotr Anderszewski, Piano (3) Pieces, Movements: No. 3, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jonathan Plowright’s survey of Brahms’s piano music for BIS could hardly have got off to a more auspicious start. The main piece here is the F sharp minor Piano Sonata Op 2, and from the first few ...

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 ...