Both of Brahms’s piano concertos are gargantuan works. At nearly fifty minutes in duration, this one lasts longer than any other major Romantic piano concerto by quite some stretch. And talking of ...

When I was a student at the Paris Conservatoire, I started by learning this piece, not Brahms’s First Concerto. Many people were more attracted initially to the latter, maybe because it has a ...

Solomon’s 1947 account of the concerto is arguably the most cultured on record, displaying a blend of strength, delicacy and inward vision that translates every last detail without sacrificing ...

Dima Slobodeniouk, conductor Yefim Bronfman, piano Johannes Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 Brahms called his Piano Concerto No. 2 “a tiny little piano concerto ...

Since the recent death of Alicia de Larrocha, Joaquín Achúcarro is probably the pre-eminent living Spanish pianist. He's also a significant presence in Dallas, with an endowed professorship at ...

LENOX — Two outstanding Romantic piano concertos are being featured this weekend at Tanglewood: the Piano Concerto No. 2 of Frédéric Chopin, at 8 p.m., July 22, and the Second Piano Concerto of ...

Last April the notorious volcanic ash cloud prevented Boris Berezovsky travelling to Dublin for a performance of Brahms's Second Piano Concerto with the NSO, and Finghin Collins stepped ably into the ...

Celebrating his 27th year with the Immanuel and Helen Olshan Texas Music Festival, native Houstonian Timothy Hester will perform Johannes Brahms’ masterful Piano Concerto No. 2 for Week 2 of the ...

Although it was love at first sight when Jon Nakamatsu came into contact with a piano at age 4, it wasn’t until he was 30 that he became a full-time concert pianist. The journey was a bit long, but he ...

The Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra (QPO) will present a concert featuring Brahms’ intimate colossus Concerto No. 2 in B-Flat Major, and de Falla’s inspired El Sombrero de Tres Picos (Three-Cornered Hat) ...

Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat Major; Variations on a Theme by Haydn for Orchestra, Op. 56a (Horacio Gutierrez, piano; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Andre Previn, cond.; Telarc). This disc is ...

In a tongue-in-cheek quip, Brahms described his Second Piano Concerto as “a tiny, tiny pianoforte concerto, with a tiny, tiny wisp of a scherzo.” Approaching the dimensions of a symphony, full of ...