Yet in its most ravishing passage – the tender cello solo that opens its slow movement – the piano, Brahms’s own instrument, remains silent. It never gets to play that heavenly melody.

At intermission, after the Schumann, musician friends expressed great enthusiasm for Grimaud’s performance. The virtuosity was certainly there, and bold characterization of music alternately exuberant ...

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.1 - OCR ... by Beethoven as the solo pianist. The piece was published in 1801 after some revisions. Brahms: Violin Concerto - OCR Johannes Brahms was a composer ...

The program includes Brahms’s Violin Sonata No. 1 ... Aydin, who lives in Berlin, has recorded solo piano works by Beethoven, Schumann, Chopin, Liszt and Rachmaninov. Also a dedicated chamber ...

Lied most often refers to a song performed in German by a solo singer with piano accompaniment ... Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms all composed lieder. Common poetic themes ...

He introduced this music to a whole new audience when he wrote Gypsy-inspired dances for the piano – and then began super-sizing them for an entire orchestra. Brahms was inspired by the folk ...