Is Brahms’s music classical or romantic? Paul Lewis is clear-headed about the answer. His playing in Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1 disdains romantic heroics in favour of poise and proportion, fine ...

Few piano concertos speak as cogently as the two that came from Brahms’ pen. Though vastly different in character, together they represent a pinnacle of 19th century pianism. True, each lies awkwardly ...

With large gestures, the tall, slim Guggeis led the San Diego musicians in a memorable concert featuring the 64-year-old ...

CAN a performance be just too sophisticated? There is no faulting pianist Paul Lewis’ performance of Brahms’ colossal First Piano Concerto in his new recording of the work. It’s all there and is ...

The contrast didn't go as far as ridiculous and sublime, but hearing piano concertos by Leroy Anderson and Johannes Brahms on two successive nights at Miller Outdoor Theatre was certainly a lesson in ...

Richard Osborne described this Zimerman/Bernstein account of Brahm's First Concerto as ''narcissistic, so intolerably self-regarding'' although he also found the performance ''overflowing with ...