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BIZARRE: Brahms - What They Never Told You

Imagine a world without Wagner … it’s not easy, but let’s try

As the Bayreuth festival turns 150, we look at the composer’s huge and enduring influence, and wonder what might have happened to classical music in his absence?

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Where invisible virtuosity meets musical depths

The Royal Bangkok Symphony Music School launched its new Sounds On Wireless concert series at 140 Wireless earlier this month, presenting an evening that brought together an exceptional young artist, an innovative urban performance venue and a Steinway Spirio concert grand piano.

Bangkok Post

Brahms: Violin Sonatas album review – Ehnes and Armstrong’s performances exude an effortless rightness

The Canadian violinist and American pianist – musical partners for over three decades – bring assurance and grace to these three violin sonatas written by Brahms in his creative prime.

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Dazzling, delightful – and unfairly dismissed: Stephen Hough on the art of the transcription

Bach, Beethoven and Brahms did it. Liszt took it to such virtuosic heights that the entire genre almost collapsed. Ahead of his own album of transcriptions, the pianist and composer looks at the history of reworking existing music

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Pianist Pun kicks off 'Sounds On Wireless'

Pianist Pun Punyasavatsut presents a piano recital featuring masterworks by Bach, Schubert and Brahms, at 140 Wireless, Witthayu Road, this Saturday at 4pm.

Bangkok Post

125th anniversary gala concert review – back to 1901 as Wigmore celebrates birthday playing to its strengths

The veteran chamber music venue kicked off a celebratory two-week festival with a starry lineup of performers playing works that had featured on the first ever programme

The Guardian - UK

A ‘lost’ Vaughan Williams song is exciting news but what else remains to be ‘found’?

All kinds of musical riches by formerly overlooked composers may be languishing in lofts and dusty archives.

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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

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Beethoven & Brahms: Violin Concertos album review – as supple and coherent as ever as the ACO celebrates 50

Under Richard Tognetti the ACO has established itself as world-class and this 50th anniversary live recording of these two great concertos are a wonderful souvenir of a remarkable group

The Guardian - UK

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

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Stephen Kovacevich and friends at Wigmore Hall review: time for our annual dose of magic

4/5 When keyboard giants Stephen Kovacevich and Martha Argerich come together, it’s always an unmissable event

Evening Standard

The Ambassador Auditorium Recitals album review – a joyful reminder of the richness of Claudio Arrau

Three recitals given by the Chilean pianist in the 70s and 80s are a feast of lucid and emphatic playing that hasn’t dated in the slightest

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Penarth chamber music festival review – scaled-down Mahler’s Fourth Symphony emerges as if newly minted

The joy and anarchy of Mahler were brilliantly captured, alongside wild Shostakovich and mellow Brahms

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Alfred Brendel obituary

One of the greatest pianists of his generation who bestrode the musical world for six decades

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Majestic, rigorous and sheer fun: the best of Alfred Brendel’s recordings

As the musical world mourns the celebrated pianist, we assess his wide recording legacy and pick the 12 best, from Russian rarities to quickfire Beethoven

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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

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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

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Berliner Philharmoniker and Herbert von Karajan: 1953–1969 Live in Berlin review – risk and adventure

Featuring 23 radio concerts under their charismatic chief conductor, this Berlin Phil box set ranges from Brahms to Tallis, Glenn Gould to Gundula Janowitz

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Lines of Life: Schubert & Kurtág album review – Benjamin Appl’s wonderful tribute to extraordinary composer

Works by Schubert and Brahms are interwoven with 13 of composer’s own songs in this beautifully realised collection

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Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem album review – humanist masterpiece remains earthbound

Baritone Brian Mulligan impresses in Edward Gardner’s recording that is stronger on the work’s consolation than its celebration

The Walrus

Nazi Persecution Scattered My Family. A Lost Archive Brought Us Together

How 10,000 pages of documents sent me on a journey through Germany’s dark past

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Mariam Batsashvili review – star pianist takes Romantics to another level without frills

The Georgian musician was at her compelling best in Brahms and Liszt in a recital that showcased intensity, flair and poise

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LSO/Rattle review – old, new, borrowed and Boulez for conductor’s birthday concerts

World premieres by George Benjamin and Mark-Anthony Turnage were centrepieces of two concerts celebrating Rattle’s 70th, but it was symphonies – Brahms and Vaughan Williams – that were the high points

Evening Standard

Boulez, Benjamin & Brahms at the Barbican review: Simon Rattle brought new light to familiar works

5/5 The LSO marked Boulez's centenary and the great conductor’s birthday with a subtle, understated belebration

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Man, 88, passes grade 8 piano with distinction, 67 years after taking grade 7

Ray Eveleigh says playing helps keep his brain active and wife and daughter encouraged him to go for grade 8

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