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 Quatuor Agate owe their name to Brahms – taking it from ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Painting of composer Johannes Brahms(Willy von Beckerath (Public Domain)) The 29-year-old Johannes ...

As anyone who has heard their accounts of the Schubert piano trios with pianist Frank Brailey from last year will know, the Capuçon brothers, violinist Renaud and cellist Gautier, are chamber ...

The New Zealand String Quartet has a distinguished track record on disc, balancing homegrown with international repertoire. Its latest Naxos release offers the first two string quartets of Brahms, ...

Aside from soloists, it’s safe to say most classical musicians almost always have their sheet music close at hand. But the young players in the Chiara String Quartet have challenged themselves to ...

Daniel Hope, violinist of this quartet of friends, insists “we all leave our egos at the door”. The other three egos belong to Paul Neubauer (viola), David Finckel (cello) and Wu Han (piano). The four ...

(5) Lieder, Movements: No. 1, Wie Melodien zieht es mir (wds. Groth) Mojca Erdmann, Soprano Kuss Quartet Johannes Brahms, Composer (6) Lieder, Movements: No. 1, Sommerabend (wds. Heine) Mojca Erdmann, ...

Piano Quartet No. 3 Krystian Zimerman, Piano Maria Nowak, Violin Katarzyna Budnik, Viola Yuya Okamoto, Cello Piano Quartet No. 2 Krystian Zimerman, Piano Maria Nowak, Violin Katarzyna Budnik, Viola ...

Brahms was apparently so petrified of comparisons with Beethoven's achievements in the form that he destroyed the 20 or so string quartets he composed as a youth before finally, having turned 40, ...

Today's composers would love to discover the elusive formula for artistic permanence. But it was probably always so. Even German composer Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) did not instantly achieve the ...