Brahms: Late Piano Works album review – Anderszewski leans into the sorrow of these intimate miniatures
Darkness hangs over a fluid and distinctively emotional take on a dozen introspective works
Brahms: Symphony No 1, Tragic Overture album review – Petrenko and the Berliners give Brahms organic momentum
Brahms’s Tragic Overture leaps to life while there is much interest in a careful reading of the composer’s First Symphony in this new recording from the Berlin Philharmonic with their chief conductor
Brahms: Complete Symphonies album review – period-instrument plushness with modern-instrument refinement
In recordings taken from live performances, John Eliot Gardiner conducts the RCO in taut and purposeful readings
Brahms: Piano Quartets Nos 2 and 3 album review – high-class chamber music with a star team player
Pianist Krystian Zimerman is a master of understatement in these renditions of lesser-known quartets
Brahms: Piano Sonata No 1; Schubert: Wanderer Fantasy, D760 album review – beautifully shaped works and a bravura performance
The French pianist revels in the virtuoso demands of Brahms’s early sonata
Quatuor Agate: Brahms – The String Quartets album review – a suave and refined debut
The Paris-based group’s first disc is a wonderfully detailed recording of Brahms quartets that at times might benefit from a more muscular edge
Bournemouth SO/Karabits review – orchestra and conductor in perfect harmony
The conductor’s special qualities were on show in a varied programme, and helped add stability to artist-in-residence Alexander Malofeev’s glittering performance
LSO/Tilson Thomas/Tetzlaff review – Brahms soars and glows
In an all Brahms programme, Christian Tetzlaff brought momentum and shape to the Violin Concerto, and Tilson Thomas made every note glow
Brahms By Arrangement Vol Two: Orchestrations by Robin Holloway review – dialogue with the past brings present benefits
The English composer pays reverent and inventive homage to music by the German grandee with the help of the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Paul Mann
Javier Perianes review – Granados’s Goyescas has rare outing but colours remain dim
Perianes has the agility and stamina to take on Granados’s piece but his realisation of the epic piano work didn’t have enough colour or character
Leonidas Kavakos/Yuja Wang review – shared detail and purpose
The two virtuosic soloists have a longstanding musical partnership that here produced a wonderful and generous evening of music by Brahms, Janáček and Schumann
Schumann Quartet/Anna Lucia Richter review – immaculate playing prized efficiency over emotion
Despite great commitment from the mezzo-soprano, the four string players merged into corporate facelessness in this performance of Brahms and Schumann
Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra review – tears and roars of delight for new national ensemble
Giving only their second ever performance, the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra was highly impressive and deeply moving in a programme of Silvestrov, Chopin, Beethoven and Brahms
Brahms: Complete Songs, Vol 1 – Opp 32, 43, 86 and 105 review – masterful and revelatory
Tenor Christoph Prégardien gives an intelligent and perfectly weighted performance with pianist Ulrich Eisenlohr
Alexandre Kantorow: Brahms review – gothic darkness and beguiling sweetness
Kantorow’s affinity with the German Romantic sparks mercurially expressive and resonant playing in this follow-up to his 2020 Brahms disc