Franceso Piemontesi's latest recital disc confirms the fine impression left by his set of Schumann's piano sonatas released by Claves last year. There's a real aristocratic sweep to this 27-year-old ...

Barry Douglas is an outstanding Brahms interpreter, yet this first volume of his planned survey of the complete piano works is disconcerting. It brings together pieces from almost all periods of ...

Pianist extraordinaire Murray Perahia, who once seemed obsessed with the music of Bach, returns for the first time in 20 years to the music of Johannes Brahms in a recording that’s sure to spark ...

Throughout the week Classic FM’s presenters bring you the best new recordings, including world exclusives and premiere broadcasts of latest releases. This week: ‘Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 & Handel ...

(25) Variations and Fugue on a Theme by G.F. Handel Nelly Akopian-Tamarina, Piano Johannes Brahms, Composer (4) Ballades Nelly Akopian-Tamarina, Piano Johannes Brahms, Composer Listening to Nelly ...

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 Lars Vogt, Conductor, Piano Royal Northern Sinfonia (25) Variations and Fugue on a Theme by G.F. Handel Lars Vogt, Conductor, Piano Royal Northern Sinfonia Hot ...

Murray Perahia’s Brahms is outstanding in every way. He has the elegance to showcase the baroque inspiration of the Handel Variations, but also the sense of scale and architecture to encompass ...

This was a serious program assembled by an artist who trusted his audience to listen with open minds and trusted himself to ...

Perahia brings his customary mastery to piano works by Brahms, a composer he is not usually associated with but whose blend of lyricism and rigour suits his gifts perfectly. The disc opens with the ...

The young Swiss-Italian Francesco Piemontesi combines communicative panache with remarkable insight. He prefaces a virile, sensitive performance of Brahms’s Handel Variations with a stylistically ...