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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

The Guardian - UK

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

The Guardian - UK

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

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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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Brahms for the soul on the night the US election results came in

A stirring performance by Víkingur Ólafsson of a piano concerto written amid a period of great sorrow. I think we could relate

The Guardian - UK

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

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WEDO/Barenboim review – optimism and despondency as visionary conductor returns to London

Making their second visit to the capital this year, a frail Daniel Barenboim and his West-Eastern Divan Orchestra played sun-drenched Mendelssohn and stately Brahms with command and beauty

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Williams/Burch; Booth/Waley-Cohen review – persuasive Schubert and superb Kurtág

Roderick Williams was vivid and compelling in Schubert’s Schwanengesang, while Claire Booth rose to the challenges of Kafka Fragments

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Brahms: Piano Concertos; Piano Pieces Opp 116-119 album review – Levit’s performance is utterly compelling

It’s hard to think of a better recording of Brahms’ late solo works for piano, even if the two concertos they are packaged with here are less convincing

The Guardian - UK

Piotr Anderszewski review – exceptional, even by his meticulous standards

This programme made largely of miniatures was one to treasure. Anderszewski is a remarkable pianist – no note is out of place, no chord not perfectly balanced

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Megalopolis to Industry: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

Francis Ford Coppola’s grandiose, dystopian sci-fi is finally unleashed, and the young City bankers go green with Lord Muck

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