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 ...

Pianist Lars Vogt joins the Frankfurt Radio Symphony in music by Johannes Brahms (1833-1897). We hear a sampling of the Piano Concerto No. 2, the third movement. Daniel Harding conducts.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Classics Reconsidered: Brahms's Piano Concerto No 2 (Fleisher/Szell) Friday, March 21, 2025 Rob Cowan and Jeremy Nicholas compare notes on Leon Fleisher’s 1962 recording of Brahms’s Second Piano ...

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 ...

The Brahms Piano Concertos are two of the largest and most demanding in the repertoire. This season they will be played on consecutive weeks by Denis Kozhukhin. Richard Bratby tells the story of their ...